Brunswick County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brunswick County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brunswick County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Brunswick 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 Brunswick County would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,665 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)
Brunswick County	25.8 min	51.6 min	215 hrs/yr	$6,663	408
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

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On average, it takes 25.8 minutes to get to work in Brunswick County. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brunswick County

• Car: 87.4%
• Worked at Home: 6.9%
• Other: 4.1%
• Walked: 1.1%
• 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 Brunswick County, versus 0.1% in Virginia.

Public transit is unusually rare in Brunswick County: 4.0 times less than the Virginia average (0.6% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Brunswick County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brunswick 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.5%	6.8%	1.9%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.2%	6.1%	1.5%	2.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.1%	6.7%	1.5%	1.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.5%	5.5%	1.7%	2.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.4%	5.3%	1.7%	2.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.5%	3.3%	2.3%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.2%	2.3%	1.7%	1.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.9%	2.7%	2.6%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.8%	2.3%	2.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.6%	2.0%	3.6%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	1.6%	3.6%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	1.7%	4.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	3.8%	2.9%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	4.3%	4.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.9%	5.5%	3.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.4%	6.9%	4.1%	1.1%	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 peaked in 2015 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 88.5% in 2009 to 87.4% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.1% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.8% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Brunswick County

• 🧘 Rush-Hour DodgersThe lowest share of rush-hour departures among Virginia's 133 counties: only 35.4% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brunswick County?

The bars show when commuters in Brunswick 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 Brunswick County6.4% Virginia5.0%	6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Brunswick County7.3% Virginia4.0%	7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Brunswick County8.6% Virginia5.0%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Brunswick County9.0% Virginia8.7%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Brunswick County5.8% Virginia9.2%	5.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Brunswick County15.3% Virginia14.2%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Brunswick County4.3% Virginia12.1%	4.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Brunswick County10.0% Virginia12.1%	10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Brunswick County9.0% Virginia6.4%	9.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Brunswick County5.9% Virginia7.2%	5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Brunswick County2.4% Virginia3.0%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Brunswick County0.5% Virginia1.4%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Brunswick County6.8% Virginia6.0%	6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Brunswick County8.8% Virginia5.7%	8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brunswick County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 22.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 35.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Brunswick 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 Brunswick 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 Brunswick 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.

• Brunswick County
• Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Brunswick County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brunswick County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Brunswick County now leave 12 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 Brunswick County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Brunswick County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brunswick County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brunswick County is 25.8 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau