King George County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in King George 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 King George County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in King George County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.0 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in King George County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,224 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)
King George County	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,061	1,464
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

Lexington city (10.6 min)
Covington city (12.2 min)
Norton city (13.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Virginia

Amelia County (43.7 min)
Craig County (41.3 min)
Buckingham County (41.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

King George County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in King George County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in King George County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in King George County: 4.3 times more than the Virginia average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in King George County: 3.0 times less than the Virginia average (0.7% vs 2.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in King George County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in King George 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	91.8%	2.6%	1.6%	0.2%	3.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2010	92.0%	2.5%	1.9%	0.2%	2.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	93.3%	2.8%	1.5%	0.1%	1.5%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2012	93.4%	2.5%	1.1%	0.4%	1.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	93.0%	2.7%	1.1%	0.8%	1.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	2.5%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.3%	3.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	3.7%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	3.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	3.9%	1.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	92.8%	4.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.1%	6.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.6%	8.3%	1.2%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.7%	10.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	83.8%	13.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	81.3%	15.1%	1.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	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 93.7%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 81.3% in 2024, down 10.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in King George County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 15.1% in 2024, up 12.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in King George County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in King George County?

The bars show when commuters in King George 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		10.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in King George County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 21.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.5%) 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 King George 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 King George 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 King George 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	King George County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in King George County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in King George County now leave 25 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 King George County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does King George County's commute time compare?

Metric	King George County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.1%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in King George County is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

1.4% 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

King George County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

King George County, VA is the 4th largest of the 5 counties compared here, 27,895 residents against a local median of 97,772. Nothing separates King George County, VA sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 6% below the local median at 31.2 min against 33.1 min. King George County, VA has the lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
King George County, VA	27,895	31.2 min #1/5	15.1% #3/5	7:13 AM #4/5
Charles County, MD	170,501	40.0 min	16.4%	7:10 AM
Caroline County, VA	32,098	32.3 min	11.5%	7:07 AM
Stafford County, VA	163,446	31.3 min	20.0%	7:15 AM
Westmoreland County, VA	18,825	33.8 min	13.4%	6:58 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in King George County, Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in King George County, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 260 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,061 at a typical national wage. That's 35% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in King George County, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in King George County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Virginia have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).