Halifax County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Halifax County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Halifax County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Halifax County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,160 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)
Halifax County	20.9 min	41.8 min	174 hrs/yr	$5,399	644
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

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On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in Halifax County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Halifax County

• Car: 90.0%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Other: 2.1%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Halifax County: 12.2 times less than the Virginia average (0.2% vs 2.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Halifax County: 6.4 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Halifax County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Halifax 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.1%	2.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	93.4%	2.7%	2.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	91.1%	3.7%	3.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	92.3%	3.8%	2.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	91.5%	4.0%	2.8%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.5%	3.9%	4.0%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.4%	2.9%	4.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.6%	2.8%	4.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.4%	3.1%	5.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.9%	3.4%	4.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.0%	3.5%	4.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	89.0%	5.7%	4.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	6.3%	2.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.7%	6.6%	2.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	89.6%	6.4%	2.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	90.0%	6.8%	2.1%	0.8%	0.2%	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 bottomed out in 2020 at 89.0%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Halifax County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Halifax County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Halifax County?

The bars show when commuters in Halifax 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 Halifax County5.9% Virginia5.0%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Halifax County3.9% Virginia4.0%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Halifax County5.7% Virginia5.0%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Halifax County8.2% Virginia8.7%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Halifax County8.0% Virginia9.2%	8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Halifax County17.1% Virginia14.2%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Halifax County11.4% Virginia12.1%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Halifax County11.5% Virginia12.1%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Halifax County5.1% Virginia6.4%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Halifax County2.8% Virginia7.2%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Halifax County2.3% Virginia3.0%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Halifax County2.7% Virginia1.4%	2.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Halifax County6.9% Virginia6.0%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Halifax County8.4% Virginia5.7%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Halifax County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 15.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Halifax 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 Halifax 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 Halifax 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.

• Halifax County
• Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Halifax County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Halifax County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Halifax County now leave 5 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 Halifax County has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Halifax County's commute time compare?

Metric	Halifax County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.8%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Halifax County is 20.9 minutes, shorter than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau