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Commuting in Hopewell, 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 Hopewell: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hopewell spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way.

Hopewell 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 Hopewell would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,396 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)
Hopewell 23.2 min 46.4 min 193 hrs/yr $5,990 2,581
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.

Hopewell Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Hopewell. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hopewell

  • Car: 87.1%
  • Worked at Home: 11.6%
  • Taxi: 0.5%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Walked: 0.2% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Hopewell: 9.3 times less than the Virginia average (0.2% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Hopewell: 232.2 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 2.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Hopewell: just 0.5%, 5.2 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Hopewell, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hopewell 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 Taxi Other Bicycle Walked Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 94.2% 2.4% 0.0% 1.1% 0.2% 1.8% 0.4% 0.0%
2010 94.7% 1.3% 0.0% 1.2% 0.4% 2.1% 0.3% 0.0%
2011 96.6% 0.8% 0.0% 1.1% 0.1% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0%
2012 95.4% 1.5% 0.0% 1.5% 0.2% 1.1% 0.3% 0.0%
2013 94.9% 1.6% 0.0% 0.9% 0.2% 0.8% 1.6% 0.0%
2014 94.9% 1.2% 0.0% 1.6% 0.2% 1.2% 0.9% 0.0%
2015 94.3% 1.5% 0.3% 1.9% 0.0% 1.0% 0.9% 0.1%
2016 93.3% 2.2% 0.4% 1.9% 0.0% 1.0% 1.1% 0.1%
2017 94.0% 2.1% 0.3% 1.6% 0.0% 0.8% 1.0% 0.2%
2018 94.3% 2.6% 0.4% 1.2% 0.0% 0.7% 0.6% 0.2%
2019 96.1% 1.9% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.4% 0.2%
2020 94.9% 3.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.7% 0.9% 0.1%
2021 93.4% 5.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.8% 0.3% 0.1%
2022 91.6% 6.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.9% 0.4% 0.2%
2023 89.5% 9.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.1% 11.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 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 2011 at 96.6%. Overall it fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hopewell: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 11.6% in 2024, up 9.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 1.6% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Hopewell

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hopewell?

The bars show when commuters in Hopewell 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
6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
14.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
13.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hopewell is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.7% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 38.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Hopewell, 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 Hopewell 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 Hopewell 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 Hopewell Virginia United States
2009 7:16 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:25 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:31 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:40 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:34 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:29 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:27 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 7:16 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:22 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hopewell were on the road by 7:22 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Hopewell now leave 16 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 Hopewell has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Hopewell's commute time compare?

Metric Hopewell Virginia US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.2 min 23.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.6% 18.3% 15.0%
Walked 0.2% 2.1% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 2.3% 3.2%

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

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hopewell, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Hopewell, VA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Hopewell, VA 22,899 23.2 min #2/2 11.6% #1/2 7:21 AM #1/2
Petersburg, VA 33,537 20.5 min 10.0% 7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hopewell, Virginia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 193 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,990 at a typical national wage.

When is rush hour worst in Hopewell, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Hopewell, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Hopewell, Virginia?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 2.3% in Virginia, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.