Cumberland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cumberland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cumberland County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Cumberland County holds about 0.1% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cumberland County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,250 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)
Cumberland County	31.5 min	62.9 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,125	717
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 31.5 minutes to get to work in Cumberland County. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cumberland County

• Car: 87.6%
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Walked: 2.5%
• Other: 1.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Cumberland County, versus 2.3% in Virginia.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cumberland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cumberland 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.5%	5.4%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	90.5%	4.6%	0.8%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	90.7%	4.4%	0.8%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	91.2%	5.0%	0.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.5%	4.2%	0.7%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.3%	4.6%	0.6%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.6%	4.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	4.0%	0.0%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.3%	4.9%	0.0%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.5%	7.1%	0.0%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.4%	6.5%	0.0%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.0%	5.6%	1.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.0%	6.6%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	8.7%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.5%	6.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.6%	8.7%	2.5%	1.3%	0.0%	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 94.6%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cumberland County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Cumberland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cumberland County?

The bars show when commuters in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County11.4% Virginia5.0%	11.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cumberland County6.0% Virginia4.0%	6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cumberland County2.4% Virginia5.0%	2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cumberland County8.3% Virginia8.7%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cumberland County15.7% Virginia9.2%	15.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cumberland County11.9% Virginia14.2%	11.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cumberland County10.2% Virginia12.1%	10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cumberland County7.4% Virginia12.1%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cumberland County1.4% Virginia6.4%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cumberland County9.5% Virginia7.2%	9.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cumberland County2.8% Virginia3.0%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cumberland County0.0% Virginia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cumberland County5.2% Virginia6.0%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cumberland County7.8% Virginia5.7%	7.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cumberland County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.3%) 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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.

• Cumberland County
• Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cumberland County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cumberland County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Cumberland County now leave 22 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 Cumberland County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Cumberland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cumberland County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.5 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	8.7%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cumberland County is 31.5 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.0% 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