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Commuting in Grayson 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 Grayson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grayson County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Grayson 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 Grayson County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,444 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)
Grayson County 23.7 min 47.3 min 197 hrs/yr $6,110 353
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
  1. Lexington city (10.6 min)
  2. Covington city (12.2 min)
  3. Norton city (13.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Virginia
  1. Amelia County (43.7 min)
  2. Craig County (41.3 min)
  3. Buckingham County (41.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Grayson County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Grayson County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grayson County

  • Car: 90.4%
  • Worked at Home: 5.2% unusually low
  • Other: 2.0%
  • Walked: 1.1%
  • Motorcycle: 0.8% unusually high
  • Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Grayson County: 7.2 times more than the Virginia average (0.8% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Grayson County: 4.4 times less than the Virginia average (0.5% vs 2.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Grayson County: 3.5 times less than the Virginia average (5.2% vs 18.3%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grayson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grayson 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 Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 94.4% 3.7% 0.5% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 94.4% 3.7% 0.6% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 94.9% 3.4% 0.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 95.0% 3.1% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 94.5% 2.8% 1.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 95.2% 1.9% 0.3% 1.8% 0.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 94.5% 1.9% 0.3% 2.3% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.9% 2.1% 0.2% 1.7% 0.1% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.6% 2.8% 0.6% 3.0% 0.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 92.9% 2.7% 0.7% 3.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 91.9% 3.9% 0.8% 2.4% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 91.9% 4.5% 1.3% 1.7% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 90.3% 4.2% 2.6% 2.0% 0.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.9% 4.9% 2.4% 0.9% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.2% 5.2% 1.8% 0.9% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.4% 5.2% 2.0% 1.1% 0.8% 0.5% 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 2014 at 95.2% and lowest in 2021 at 90.3%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grayson County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 5.2% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.2% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.

Commute Start Times in Grayson County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe biggest shift to earlier mornings among Virginia's 133 counties: the typical start is 30 minutes earlier than in 2009.
  • Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among Virginia's 133 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:59 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grayson County?

The bars show when commuters in Grayson 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
7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
10.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
17.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
8.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grayson County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 22.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 46.3% 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 Grayson 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 Grayson 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 Grayson 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 Grayson County Virginia United States
2009 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:31 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:32 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:30 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:22 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:15 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:16 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:08 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:57 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:59 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grayson County were on the road by 6:59 AM, 30 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Grayson County now leave 39 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 Grayson County has moved 26 minutes earlier.

How does Grayson County's commute time compare?

Metric Grayson County Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.7 min 23.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 5.2% 18.3% 15.0%
Walked 1.1% 2.1% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.5% 2.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Grayson County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Grayson County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Grayson County, VA is the 4th largest of the 5 counties compared here, 15,277 residents against a local median of 27,565. Where Grayson County, VA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 35% below the local median of 8.0% at 5.2%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.7 min against a local median of 19.9 min, 19% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 19% above the local median it puts Grayson County, VA at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.6% on work from home, so Grayson County, VA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Grayson County, VA has the 5th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Grayson County, VA 15,277 23.7 min #5/5 5.2% #5/5 6:59 AM #1/5
Alleghany County, NC 11,122 19.0 min 10.6% 7:34 AM
Wythe County, VA 28,184 20.8 min 7.0% 7:38 AM
Ashe County, NC 26,946 21.6 min 9.0% 7:29 AM
Smyth County, VA 29,374 18.6 min 6.1% 7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grayson County, Virginia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,110 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Grayson County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 2.3% in Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).