Charles City County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Charles City County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Charles City County spend about 67 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 278 hours, about 11.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 10.2 minutes.

Charles City County holds about 0.1% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Charles City County would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,446 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)
Charles City County	33.3 min	66.7 min	278 hrs/yr	$8,614	965
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 33.3 minutes to get to work in Charles City County. That's 49% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 92% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Charles City County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 9.7%
• Other: 1.9%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Charles City County: 8.2 times less than the Virginia average (0.3% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Charles City County: 18.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.1% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Charles City County: just 0.3%, 9.3 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Charles City County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Charles City 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	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.3%	2.2%	2.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.2%	4.7%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.3%	5.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.5%	5.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.5%	5.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.8%	5.0%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.7%	4.0%	1.6%	1.1%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.4%	3.4%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	3.2%	1.0%	2.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	3.0%	1.1%	3.6%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.3%	4.0%	1.4%	3.2%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.0%	4.2%	0.8%	2.4%	0.2%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.6%	5.9%	0.6%	2.0%	0.5%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.9%	7.5%	2.2%	0.4%	0.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.3%	8.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	9.7%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.3% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Charles City County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 9.7% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.4% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.1%.

Commute Start Times in Charles City County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Charles City County?

The bars show when commuters in Charles City 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 Charles City County6.8% Virginia5.0%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Charles City County3.0% Virginia4.0%	3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Charles City County7.6% Virginia5.0%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Charles City County17.0% Virginia8.7%	17.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Charles City County13.2% Virginia9.2%	13.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Charles City County12.1% Virginia14.2%	12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Charles City County8.7% Virginia12.1%	8.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Charles City County13.2% Virginia12.1%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Charles City County2.3% Virginia6.4%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Charles City County2.6% Virginia7.2%	2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Charles City County1.7% Virginia3.0%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Charles City County1.2% Virginia1.4%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Charles City County3.6% Virginia6.0%	3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Charles City County7.0% Virginia5.7%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Charles City County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.7% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.0%) 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 Charles City 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 Charles City 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 Charles City 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	Charles City County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:04 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Charles City County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Charles City County now leave 32 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Charles City County's commute time compare?

Metric	Charles City County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.3 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	9.7%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Charles City County is 33.3 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau