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Commuting in Statesville, North Carolina: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Statesville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Statesville spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Statesville holds about 0.2% of North Carolina's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Statesville would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,689 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)
Statesville 16.3 min 32.7 min 136 hrs/yr $4,223 2,255
North Carolina 21.9 min 43.7 min 182 hrs/yr $5,645 1,609
United States 22.4 min 44.8 min 187 hrs/yr $5,790 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.

Statesville Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.3 minutes to get to work in Statesville. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Statesville

  • Car: 89.3%
  • Worked at Home: 7.6%
  • Other: 1.5%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Statesville: 12.9 times less than the North Carolina average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Statesville, versus 0.2% in North Carolina.

Commute Mode Trends in Statesville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Statesville get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Other Walked Public Transportation Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle
2009 94.5% 3.0% 0.8% 1.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.2%
2010 94.3% 2.9% 0.9% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.5%
2011 94.9% 2.9% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.5%
2012 94.5% 2.2% 1.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.5%
2013 94.9% 2.0% 1.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3% 0.5%
2014 95.2% 1.8% 0.9% 1.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3%
2015 96.3% 1.5% 0.4% 1.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
2016 96.0% 1.6% 0.4% 1.4% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2017 95.8% 2.3% 0.2% 1.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 95.5% 3.0% 0.2% 0.7% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 94.1% 4.5% 0.2% 0.8% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 93.2% 4.9% 0.3% 1.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 91.9% 6.1% 0.7% 1.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.6% 7.0% 0.9% 1.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 89.4% 7.6% 1.4% 1.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 89.3% 7.6% 1.5% 1.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 89.3% in 2024, down 5.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Statesville: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Statesville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Statesville?

The bars show when commuters in Statesville leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show North Carolina for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
11.4%

Statesville North Carolina Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Statesville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across North Carolina. Early starts are about as common as in North Carolina: 12.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 46.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.1%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Statesville, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Statesville Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Statesville next to North Carolina and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Statesville North Carolina United States
2009 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:36 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:39 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:39 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:31 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:25 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:42 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:44 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:48 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:42 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Statesville were on the road by 7:42 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Statesville now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Statesville has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Statesville's commute time compare?

Metric Statesville North Carolina US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.3 min 21.9 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 7.6% 16.3% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 1.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.7% 3.2%

The average commute time in Statesville is 16.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Statesville, NC Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Statesville, NC compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Statesville, NC 25,834 16.3 min #1/2 7.6% #2/2 7:42 AM #2/2
Mooresville, NC 32,577 20.3 min 18.9% 7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Statesville, North Carolina.

Is living in Statesville, North Carolina good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 136 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,223 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Statesville, North Carolina?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Statesville, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Statesville, North Carolina?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.7% in North Carolina, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.