Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 4% less time on the road than the New Hampshire average of 22.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Carroll County holds about 3.7% of New Hampshire's population but accounts for roughly 3.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carroll County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,223 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)
Carroll County	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,557	920
New Hampshire	22.5 min	45.0 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,807	1,232
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: New Hampshire Counties

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On average, it takes 21.5 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in New Hampshire

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 15.0% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 81.5%
• Worked at Home: 15.0%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Carroll County, versus 0.2% in New Hampshire.

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric	Carroll County	New Hampshire	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 min	22.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.0%	15.1%	13.4%
Walked	2.1%	2.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.5%

The average commute time in Carroll County is about the same as in New Hampshire.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Hampshire. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.2% in New Hampshire.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau