Danville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Danville, 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 Danville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Danville spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Danville holds about 0.5% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Danville would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,723 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)
Danville	16.7 min	33.3 min	139 hrs/yr	$4,306	1,894
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.

Danville Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.7 minutes to get to work in Danville. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Danville

Commute Mode Trends in Danville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Danville 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.4%	1.8%	1.9%	0.9%	2.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	91.5%	2.1%	2.1%	1.0%	3.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	91.4%	1.9%	2.2%	1.0%	3.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	1.7%	1.7%	1.0%	3.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	2.8%	2.5%	0.7%	2.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	91.4%	2.6%	2.5%	1.3%	2.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	92.5%	2.1%	2.2%	0.9%	2.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.0%	2.3%	1.8%	0.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.7%	2.6%	2.2%	1.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.0%	2.1%	2.3%	1.3%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	91.0%	2.2%	2.7%	1.0%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	89.3%	2.9%	3.2%	1.5%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	87.9%	4.9%	3.0%	1.6%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	88.7%	5.8%	2.7%	0.9%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	87.7%	8.0%	1.6%	1.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	86.2%	8.8%	2.2%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	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 93.0%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Danville: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 8.8% in 2024, up 7.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.2% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 2.2%.

Commute Start Times in Danville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Danville?

The bars show when commuters in Danville 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		3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Danville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.2%) 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 Danville, 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 Danville 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 Danville 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	Danville	Virginia	United States
2009	7:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:57 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:57 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:56 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:56 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:58 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:55 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:52 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Danville were on the road by 7:51 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:57 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Danville now leave 13 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Danville has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Danville in the whole series.

How does Danville's commute time compare?

Metric	Danville	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.8%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.2%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Danville is 16.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

2.2% 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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Danville, Virginia.

Is living in Danville, Virginia good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 139 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,306 at a typical national wage. That's 28% less than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Danville, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Danville, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.