Dinwiddie County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dinwiddie County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dinwiddie County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

Dinwiddie County holds about 0.3% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dinwiddie County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,155 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)
Dinwiddie County	30.5 min	61.1 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,888	902
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 30.5 minutes to get to work in Dinwiddie County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dinwiddie County

• Car: 87.7%
• Worked at Home: 11.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Other: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Dinwiddie County: 4.7 times less than the Virginia average (0.4% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Dinwiddie County: 4.8 times less than the Virginia average (0.5% vs 2.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Dinwiddie County: 38.2 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Dinwiddie County: just 0.4%, 5.2 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dinwiddie County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dinwiddie 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	Walked	Motorcycle	Other	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	96.6%	2.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.8%	2.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.7%	2.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.5%	3.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	4.2%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	4.2%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.1%	3.5%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	3.8%	0.2%	1.1%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	2.3%	0.3%	1.8%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	2.4%	0.5%	1.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	2.5%	0.8%	1.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.7%	5.4%	0.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	5.7%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	8.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.5%	9.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.7%	11.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	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 96.6% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dinwiddie County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 8.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 1.8% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Dinwiddie County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dinwiddie County?

The bars show when commuters in Dinwiddie 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 Dinwiddie County7.7% Virginia5.0%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dinwiddie County4.4% Virginia4.0%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dinwiddie County5.5% Virginia5.0%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dinwiddie County19.9% Virginia8.7%	19.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dinwiddie County9.9% Virginia9.2%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dinwiddie County13.1% Virginia14.2%	13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dinwiddie County10.8% Virginia12.1%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dinwiddie County9.2% Virginia12.1%	9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dinwiddie County3.9% Virginia6.4%	3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dinwiddie County3.9% Virginia7.2%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dinwiddie County0.5% Virginia3.0%	0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dinwiddie County0.9% Virginia1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dinwiddie County4.6% Virginia6.0%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dinwiddie County5.8% Virginia5.7%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dinwiddie County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.7% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 43.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.7%) 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 Dinwiddie 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 Dinwiddie 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 Dinwiddie 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	Dinwiddie County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dinwiddie County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Dinwiddie County now leave 32 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 Dinwiddie County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Dinwiddie County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dinwiddie County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.0%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dinwiddie County is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau