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Commuting in Amelia County, Virginia: 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 Amelia County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Amelia County spend about 87 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 364 hours, about 15.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 88% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 20.5 minutes.

Amelia County holds about 0.2% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Amelia County would save about 146 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,513 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)
Amelia County 43.7 min 87.4 min 364 hrs/yr $11,283 887
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.

Commute Time Map: Virginia Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Virginia
  1. Lexington city (10.6 min)
  2. Covington city (12.2 min)
  3. Norton city (13.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Virginia
  1. Amelia County (43.7 min)
  2. Craig County (41.3 min)
  3. Buckingham County (41.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Amelia County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 43.7 minutes to get to work in Amelia County. That's 95% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Amelia County

  • Car: 84.1%
  • Worked at Home: 12.7%
  • Other: 1.2%
  • Motorcycle: 0.9% unusually high
  • Walked: 0.9%
  • Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Amelia County: 7.8 times more than the Virginia average (0.9% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Amelia County: 11.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.2% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Amelia County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Amelia 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.

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 Motorcycle Walked Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 91.6% 6.4% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 91.9% 6.4% 1.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 92.7% 5.8% 1.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 92.8% 5.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 92.5% 4.8% 1.4% 0.0% 0.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 93.3% 3.6% 1.5% 0.0% 0.9% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.4% 2.8% 1.9% 0.0% 1.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 93.5% 2.4% 2.1% 0.0% 1.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.7% 2.7% 1.8% 0.0% 1.6% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 91.2% 3.4% 2.7% 0.0% 1.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 91.6% 3.5% 2.1% 0.0% 1.7% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 92.2% 5.5% 0.6% 0.0% 1.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 89.7% 6.5% 0.9% 0.5% 1.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.7% 9.1% 1.5% 1.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 86.5% 9.4% 1.8% 0.9% 1.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.1% 12.7% 1.2% 0.9% 0.9% 0.2% 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 2016 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 91.6% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 7.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Amelia County: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 12.7% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Amelia County

  • Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Virginia's 133 counties: 27.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Amelia County?

The bars show when commuters in Amelia 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
9.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
9.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
14.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
3.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
0.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Amelia County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 27.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 40.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.9%) 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 Amelia 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 Amelia 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 Amelia 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Amelia County Virginia United States
2009 6:53 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:00 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:04 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:10 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:11 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:11 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:03 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:00 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:03 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:48 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:55 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:00 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:07 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:02 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:07 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:01 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Amelia County were on the road by 7:01 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (6:53 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Amelia County now leave 36 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Amelia County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Amelia County's commute time compare?

Metric Amelia County Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 43.7 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 12.7% 18.3% 15.0%
Walked 0.9% 2.1% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.2% 2.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Amelia County is 43.7 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Amelia County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Amelia County, VA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,462 residents against a local median of 26,549. Where Amelia County, VA breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 44% above the local median of 30.4 min at 43.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 12.7% against a local median of 19.1%, 33% below it. The counties themselves sit within 9.0 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Amelia County, VA, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Amelia County, VA has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Amelia County, VA 13,462 43.7 min #6/6 12.7% #4/6 7:01 AM #1/6
Nottoway County, VA 15,597 22.8 min 8.7% 7:21 AM
Powhatan County, VA 31,555 31.9 min 23.1% 7:25 AM
Cumberland County, VA 9,818 31.5 min 8.7% 7:16 AM
Goochland County, VA 26,549 30.4 min 19.1% 7:44 AM
Chesterfield County, VA 377,744 25.4 min 19.5% 7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Amelia County, Virginia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Amelia County, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 364 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $11,283 at a typical national wage. That's 88% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Amelia County, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Amelia County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Amelia County, Virginia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 2.3% in Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Virginia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Virginia, the shortest average commutes are in Lexington city (10.6 min), Covington city (12.2 min), Norton city (13.1 min). The longest are in Amelia County (43.7 min), Craig County (41.3 min), Buckingham County (41.3 min).