Appomattox County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Appomattox County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Appomattox County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 222 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Appomattox County holds about 0.2% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Appomattox County would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,758 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)
Appomattox County	26.7 min	53.4 min	222 hrs/yr	$6,894	671
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 26.7 minutes to get to work in Appomattox County. That's 19% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Appomattox County

• Car: 88.4%
• Worked at Home: 10.3%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Appomattox County: 5.9 times less than the Virginia average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Appomattox County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Appomattox 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.4%	2.5%	0.8%	0.0%	3.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2010	93.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	3.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	94.5%	3.2%	0.6%	0.1%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.9%	3.1%	0.1%	0.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.3%	4.0%	0.1%	0.1%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.9%	3.5%	0.2%	0.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	5.1%	0.9%	0.5%	2.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	89.2%	5.1%	1.5%	0.5%	3.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.2%	5.1%	1.8%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	89.4%	5.3%	1.6%	0.6%	3.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.2%	5.5%	1.5%	0.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	4.7%	1.1%	0.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	5.9%	0.9%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	7.1%	0.6%	0.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	8.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.4%	10.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2011 at 94.5%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Appomattox County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 7.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 1.8% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Appomattox County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Appomattox County?

The bars show when commuters in Appomattox 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 Appomattox County6.6% Virginia5.0%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Appomattox County4.3% Virginia4.0%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Appomattox County7.5% Virginia5.0%	7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Appomattox County10.7% Virginia8.7%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Appomattox County9.1% Virginia9.2%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Appomattox County17.1% Virginia14.2%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Appomattox County17.4% Virginia12.1%	17.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Appomattox County6.8% Virginia12.1%	6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Appomattox County3.2% Virginia6.4%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Appomattox County2.3% Virginia7.2%	2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Appomattox County2.4% Virginia3.0%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Appomattox County1.0% Virginia1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Appomattox County7.9% Virginia6.0%	7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Appomattox County3.7% Virginia5.7%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Appomattox County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 18.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Appomattox 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 Appomattox 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 Appomattox 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	Appomattox County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Appomattox County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Appomattox County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Appomattox County's commute time compare?

Metric	Appomattox County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.7 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.3%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Appomattox County is 26.7 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau