Dickenson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dickenson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dickenson County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

Dickenson 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 Dickenson County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,789 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)
Dickenson County	27.0 min	54.0 min	225 hrs/yr	$6,972	815
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 27.0 minutes to get to work in Dickenson County. That's 20% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dickenson County

• Car: 93.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Driving is 23% more common in Dickenson County than the Virginia average (93.0% vs 75.6%).

Walking is unusually rare in Dickenson County: 24.8 times less than the Virginia average (0.1% vs 2.1%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Dickenson County: just 0.2%, 11.3 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dickenson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dickenson 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other
2009	94.2%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2010	95.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	93.9%	2.5%	1.3%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	95.0%	2.1%	1.0%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	95.2%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	95.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	95.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	95.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	95.8%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2018	95.7%	2.0%	0.2%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2019	95.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2020	96.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%
2021	95.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2022	94.4%	2.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2023	91.4%	6.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2024	93.0%	6.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	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 was highest in 2020 at 96.8% and lowest in 2023 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dickenson County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Dickenson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dickenson County?

The bars show when commuters in Dickenson 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 Dickenson County9.4% Virginia5.0%	9.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dickenson County4.1% Virginia4.0%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dickenson County6.9% Virginia5.0%	6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dickenson County10.4% Virginia8.7%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dickenson County7.7% Virginia9.2%	7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dickenson County13.7% Virginia14.2%	13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dickenson County11.9% Virginia12.1%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dickenson County15.1% Virginia12.1%	15.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dickenson County3.0% Virginia6.4%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dickenson County4.6% Virginia7.2%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dickenson County2.8% Virginia3.0%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dickenson County0.1% Virginia1.4%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dickenson County4.6% Virginia6.0%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dickenson County5.7% Virginia5.7%	5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dickenson County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 20.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.7%) 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 Dickenson 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 Dickenson 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 Dickenson 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	Dickenson County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dickenson County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Dickenson County now leave 13 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 Dickenson County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Dickenson County in the whole series.

How does Dickenson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dickenson County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.0 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	6.4%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dickenson County is 27.0 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau