Henry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Henry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henry County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Henry County holds about 0.6% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henry County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,242 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)
Henry County	21.7 min	43.4 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,606	1,275
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 21.7 minutes to get to work in Henry County. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Henry County

• Car: 90.6%
• Worked at Home: 8.1%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Henry County: 23.4 times less than the Virginia average (0.1% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Henry County: just 0.7%, 3.2 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Henry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Henry 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	2.6%	0.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.0%	2.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.4%	2.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.0%	2.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.7%	2.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.4%	2.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.7%	2.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.2%	2.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	2.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.2%	1.8%	0.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.7%	2.0%	0.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.7%	2.9%	0.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	3.9%	0.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.1%	5.7%	0.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.8%	7.2%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.6%	8.1%	0.7%	0.5%	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 2013 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 90.6% in 2024, down 4.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Henry County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Henry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henry County?

The bars show when commuters in Henry 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 Henry County4.4% Virginia5.0%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Henry County1.8% Virginia4.0%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Henry County6.7% Virginia5.0%	6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Henry County12.0% Virginia8.7%	12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Henry County12.9% Virginia9.2%	12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Henry County15.3% Virginia14.2%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Henry County13.9% Virginia12.1%	13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Henry County10.1% Virginia12.1%	10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Henry County5.1% Virginia6.4%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Henry County3.0% Virginia7.2%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Henry County1.3% Virginia3.0%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Henry County0.9% Virginia1.4%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Henry County7.1% Virginia6.0%	7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Henry County5.4% Virginia5.7%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Henry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 12.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Henry 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 Henry 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 Henry 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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• Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Henry County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Henry County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Henry County now leave 14 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 Henry County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Henry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henry County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	8.1%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Henry County is 21.7 minutes, shorter than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau