Wilson Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Wilson, 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 Wilson: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wilson spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 128 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the North Carolina average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Wilson holds about 0.3% of North Carolina's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wilson would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,590 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)
Wilson	15.4 min	30.8 min	128 hrs/yr	$3,974	1,986
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.

Wilson Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.4 minutes to get to work in Wilson. That's 31% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wilson

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Wilson: 53.0 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Wilson: 33.5 times less than the North Carolina average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wilson, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wilson 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.2%	0.7%	2.1%	0.8%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	94.0%	1.0%	1.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	94.3%	1.4%	1.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.7%	2.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	93.5%	2.0%	1.3%	2.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	91.8%	2.3%	1.4%	3.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2015	91.2%	1.7%	1.7%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	90.5%	1.9%	1.7%	5.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2017	90.8%	1.7%	1.6%	5.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2018	90.6%	2.4%	1.7%	4.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2019	91.1%	2.5%	1.5%	4.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	90.9%	3.1%	2.1%	3.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	92.5%	3.5%	1.7%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	5.2%	2.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	6.1%	2.2%	1.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.2%	7.6%	2.6%	1.2%	0.3%	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 2011 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 88.2% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wilson: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 0.3% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wilson

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wilson?

The bars show when commuters in Wilson 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wilson is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across North Carolina. Early starts are less common than in North Carolina: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Carolina: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.8%) 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 Wilson, 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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	Wilson	North Carolina	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wilson were on the road by 7:57 AM, 19 minutes later than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Carolina, where the typical start moved 1 minute later. Commuters in Wilson now leave 19 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 Wilson has moved 18 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Wilson in the whole series.

How does Wilson's commute time compare?

Metric	Wilson	North Carolina	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.4 min	21.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.6%	16.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	1.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wilson is 15.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.9 minutes in North Carolina.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in North Carolina. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.6% in North Carolina.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wilson, North Carolina.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 128 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,974 at a typical national wage. That's 30% less than the typical North Carolina commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Wilson, North Carolina. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.