Fredericksburg Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fredericksburg, 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 Fredericksburg: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fredericksburg spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Fredericksburg holds about 0.3% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fredericksburg would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,345 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)
Fredericksburg	22.7 min	45.4 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,862	3,130
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.

Fredericksburg Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Fredericksburg. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fredericksburg

Commute Mode Trends in Fredericksburg, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fredericksburg 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	85.7%	3.0%	5.1%	3.7%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	86.3%	2.6%	5.0%	3.7%	1.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	85.6%	3.2%	5.8%	3.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	85.8%	3.6%	6.3%	3.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	84.4%	3.9%	6.5%	3.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	84.8%	4.3%	5.9%	3.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	83.6%	5.8%	5.4%	3.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	81.6%	6.4%	6.1%	4.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	80.6%	7.6%	6.1%	4.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	78.4%	7.9%	5.9%	5.7%	0.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.1%
2019	77.2%	7.9%	7.2%	5.4%	0.5%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%
2020	81.4%	6.1%	6.3%	4.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%
2021	79.5%	9.2%	5.5%	4.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2022	78.2%	12.0%	4.5%	3.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	77.2%	14.2%	4.8%	1.9%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	75.5%	16.9%	4.5%	1.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 86.3%. Overall it fell from 85.7% in 2009 to 75.5% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fredericksburg: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 16.9% in 2024, up 13.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.7% to 1.6% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 7.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 4.5%.

Commute Start Times in Fredericksburg

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fredericksburg?

The bars show when commuters in Fredericksburg 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fredericksburg is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 44.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Fredericksburg, 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 Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg 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	Fredericksburg	Virginia	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:49 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fredericksburg were on the road by 7:44 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Fredericksburg now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Fredericksburg's commute time compare?

Metric	Fredericksburg	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.9%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.6%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fredericksburg is about the same as in Virginia.

1.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 4.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Fredericksburg, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,862 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Fredericksburg, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.