Goochland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Goochland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Goochland 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 253 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Goochland 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 Goochland County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,140 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)
Goochland County	30.4 min	60.8 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,850	1,920
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 30.4 minutes to get to work in Goochland County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% of counties in Virginia

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 19.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Goochland County

• Car: 80.0%
• Worked at Home: 19.1%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Goochland County: 5.8 times less than the Virginia average (0.4% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Goochland County, versus 2.3% in Virginia.

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Goochland County: just 0.4%, 6.6 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Goochland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Goochland 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.5%	7.4%	1.7%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	89.3%	7.3%	0.8%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.8%	7.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.4%	7.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.7%	7.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.4%	6.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.3%	5.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.5%	5.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	5.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	6.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.5%	6.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.1%	10.5%	0.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	85.0%	13.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.1%	16.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.9%	18.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.0%	19.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	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 2016 at 92.5%. Overall it fell from 88.5% in 2009 to 80.0% in 2024, down 8.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Goochland County: its share of workers rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 19.1% in 2024, up 11.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Goochland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Goochland County?

The bars show when commuters in Goochland 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 Goochland County2.8% Virginia5.0%	2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Goochland County3.1% Virginia4.0%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Goochland County3.7% Virginia5.0%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Goochland County7.7% Virginia8.7%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Goochland County8.3% Virginia9.2%	8.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Goochland County18.1% Virginia14.2%	18.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Goochland County14.4% Virginia12.1%	14.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Goochland County14.1% Virginia12.1%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Goochland County5.6% Virginia6.4%	5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Goochland County9.3% Virginia7.2%	9.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Goochland County1.8% Virginia3.0%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Goochland County1.0% Virginia1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Goochland County5.6% Virginia6.0%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Goochland County4.7% Virginia5.7%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Goochland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 9.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 54.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Goochland 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 Goochland 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 Goochland 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	Goochland County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Goochland County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 17 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Goochland County now leave 6 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 Goochland County has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Goochland County in the whole series.

How does Goochland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Goochland County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	19.1%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Goochland County is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.0% 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