Isle of Wight County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Isle of Wight County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Isle of Wight County spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 240 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Isle of Wight County would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,972 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)
Isle of Wight County	28.8 min	57.5 min	240 hrs/yr	$7,429	1,886
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 28.8 minutes to get to work in Isle of Wight County. That's 28% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% 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 11.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Isle of Wight County

• Car: 86.4%
• Worked at Home: 11.2%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Isle of Wight County: 18.6 times less than the Virginia average (0.1% vs 2.3%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Isle of Wight County, versus 0.2% in Virginia.

Biking is essentially absent in Isle of Wight County, versus 0.3% in Virginia.

Commute Mode Trends in Isle of Wight County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Isle of Wight 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	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	3.2%	1.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	3.2%	2.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.8%	3.6%	1.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	94.0%	3.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	3.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	96.4%	2.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.3%	2.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.9%	3.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	3.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.0%	3.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.7%	3.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.3%	6.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.2%	8.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	9.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.4%	10.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	11.2%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2014 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 7.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Isle of Wight County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 11.2% in 2024, up 8.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Isle of Wight County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Isle of Wight County?

The bars show when commuters in Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight County6.9% Virginia5.0%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Isle of Wight County6.3% Virginia4.0%	6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Isle of Wight County9.1% Virginia5.0%	9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Isle of Wight County10.3% Virginia8.7%	10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Isle of Wight County10.4% Virginia9.2%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Isle of Wight County13.2% Virginia14.2%	13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Isle of Wight County10.7% Virginia12.1%	10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Isle of Wight County9.5% Virginia12.1%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Isle of Wight County5.4% Virginia6.4%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Isle of Wight County4.9% Virginia7.2%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Isle of Wight County2.7% Virginia3.0%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Isle of Wight County0.8% Virginia1.4%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Isle of Wight County3.9% Virginia6.0%	3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Isle of Wight County5.8% Virginia5.7%	5.8%

Isle of Wight County Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Isle of Wight County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% 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 is more spread out than in Virginia: 43.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight 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	Isle of Wight County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Isle of Wight County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Isle of Wight County now leave 22 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 Isle of Wight County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Isle of Wight County's commute time compare?

Metric	Isle of Wight County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.8 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	11.2%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Isle of Wight County is 28.8 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau