Accomack County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Accomack County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Accomack County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Accomack County holds about 0.4% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Accomack County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,835 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)
Accomack County	17.8 min	35.5 min	148 hrs/yr	$4,586	813
Virginia	23.2 min	46.3 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,986	1,531
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.

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On average, it takes 17.8 minutes to get to work in Accomack County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Accomack County

• Car: 87.1%
• Worked at Home: 8.1%
• Walked: 2.5%
• Other: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.6% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Accomack County, versus 0.1% in Virginia.

Public transit is unusually rare in Accomack County: 3.7 times less than the Virginia average (0.6% vs 2.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Accomack County, versus 0.2% in Virginia.

Biking is essentially absent in Accomack County, versus 0.3% in Virginia.

Commute Mode Trends in Accomack County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Accomack County 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.9%	2.4%	3.0%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2010	91.2%	2.7%	3.6%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	90.5%	2.9%	4.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2012	91.8%	2.6%	3.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2013	91.5%	2.8%	3.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2014	91.1%	3.1%	3.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2015	91.1%	2.7%	4.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%
2016	91.4%	3.6%	2.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	1.0%
2017	90.6%	4.5%	2.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	1.0%
2018	88.9%	5.0%	3.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%
2019	87.6%	5.2%	3.7%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.4%	1.1%
2020	86.4%	6.7%	3.3%	1.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.9%
2021	87.6%	6.1%	3.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	1.0%
2022	86.5%	6.0%	3.8%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%
2023	86.6%	6.8%	2.7%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2024	87.1%	8.1%	2.5%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2020 at 86.4%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Accomack County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 4.0% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.

Commute Start Times in Accomack County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Accomack County?

The bars show when commuters in Accomack County 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 Virginia for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Accomack County6.0% Virginia5.0%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Accomack County6.1% Virginia4.0%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Accomack County3.4% Virginia5.0%	3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Accomack County9.9% Virginia8.7%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Accomack County9.6% Virginia9.2%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Accomack County16.5% Virginia14.2%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Accomack County11.3% Virginia12.1%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Accomack County11.0% Virginia12.1%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Accomack County2.9% Virginia6.4%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Accomack County5.8% Virginia7.2%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Accomack County3.2% Virginia3.0%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Accomack County2.8% Virginia1.4%	2.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Accomack County5.0% Virginia6.0%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Accomack County6.6% Virginia5.7%	6.6%

Accomack County Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Accomack County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 48.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.4%) 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 Accomack County, 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 Accomack County 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 Accomack County next to Virginia 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Accomack County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Accomack County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Accomack County now leave 11 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Accomack County's commute time compare?

Metric	Accomack County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.8 min	23.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.1%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Accomack County is 17.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau