Fluvanna County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fluvanna County, 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 Fluvanna County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fluvanna County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,301 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)
Fluvanna County	31.9 min	63.9 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,253	780
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Virginia

Lexington city (10.6 min)
Covington city (12.2 min)
Norton city (13.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Virginia

Amelia County (43.7 min)
Craig County (41.3 min)
Buckingham County (41.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Fluvanna County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.9 minutes to get to work in Fluvanna County. That's 43% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 87% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fluvanna County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Fluvanna County: 19.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.1% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Fluvanna County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fluvanna 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.

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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.8%	7.9%	0.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2010	89.7%	8.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	89.7%	8.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	90.3%	8.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	90.3%	9.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	6.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	6.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.2%	5.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	6.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.0%	6.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.4%	8.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.7%	9.0%	1.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.5%	12.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.9%	11.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.9%	13.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.5%	16.5%	2.0%	0.9%	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 peaked in 2014 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 89.8% in 2009 to 80.5% in 2024, down 9.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fluvanna County: its share of workers rose from 7.9% in 2009 to 16.5% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Fluvanna County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fluvanna County?

The bars show when commuters in Fluvanna 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fluvanna County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 47.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.5%) 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 Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna 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 Fluvanna 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Fluvanna County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fluvanna County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Fluvanna County now leave 9 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 Fluvanna County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Fluvanna County's commute time compare?

Metric	Fluvanna County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.5%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fluvanna County is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.1% 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

Fluvanna County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Fluvanna County, VA is typical in size for this group, 28,092 residents against a local median of 28,507, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Fluvanna County, VA's work from home, at 16.5%, runs 62% above the 10.2% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 13.8% on work from home, so Fluvanna County, VA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Fluvanna County, VA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fluvanna County, VA	28,092	31.9 min #3/5	16.5% #2/5	7:28 AM #4/5
Cumberland County, VA	9,818	31.5 min	8.7%	7:16 AM
Albemarle County, VA	114,898	20.6 min	21.7%	8:01 AM
Louisa County, VA	40,041	33.5 min	11.7%	7:19 AM
Buckingham County, VA	16,972	41.3 min	7.9%	6:55 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fluvanna County, Virginia.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Fluvanna County, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 266 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,253 at a typical national wage. That's 38% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Fluvanna County, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Fluvanna County, Virginia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 2.3% in Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Virginia?

Among counties in Virginia, the shortest average commutes are in Lexington city (10.6 min), Covington city (12.2 min), Norton city (13.1 min). The longest are in Amelia County (43.7 min), Craig County (41.3 min), Buckingham County (41.3 min).