Stanly County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stanly County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stanly County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting.

That is 6% more time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Stanly County holds about 0.6% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stanly County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,381 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area	One-Way Commute	Daily Round-Trip	Yearly Time Spent	Estimated Yearly Cost	Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Stanly County	23.0 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,953	1,065
North Carolina	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,630	1,609
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: North Carolina Counties

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Stanly County. That's 3% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 90.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.7%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Stanly County, versus 0.1% in North Carolina.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Stanly County, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

How does Stanly County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stanly County	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 min	21.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.7%	14.5%	13.4%
Walked	0.8%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Stanly County is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 21.8 minutes in North Carolina.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau