Lunenburg County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lunenburg County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lunenburg County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 252 hours, about 10.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Lunenburg County holds about 0.1% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lunenburg County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,128 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)
Lunenburg County	30.3 min	60.5 min	252 hrs/yr	$7,819	449
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 30.3 minutes to get to work in Lunenburg County. That's 35% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lunenburg County

• Car: 88.8%
• Worked at Home: 5.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 3.4%
• Other: 2.0%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Lunenburg County: 3.6 times less than the Virginia average (0.6% vs 2.1%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Lunenburg County: 3.5 times less than the Virginia average (5.2% vs 18.3%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Lunenburg County: just 0.6%, 4.1 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lunenburg County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lunenburg 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.3%	4.1%	0.5%	1.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.4%	4.0%	0.7%	2.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.4%	5.2%	0.6%	2.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.8%	2.9%	0.5%	3.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.7%	4.0%	0.6%	2.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.9%	4.1%	0.4%	4.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.5%	3.7%	0.5%	3.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.4%	4.1%	0.6%	4.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.1%	4.8%	0.8%	4.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.2%	4.4%	0.7%	5.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.5%	5.0%	1.1%	5.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.7%	4.6%	1.2%	3.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.2%	5.8%	0.9%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	5.1%	1.8%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.9%	7.0%	2.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.8%	5.2%	3.4%	2.0%	0.6%	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 2019 at 87.5%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 88.8% in 2024, down 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Lunenburg County: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 3.4% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 7.0% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 5.2%.

Commute Start Times in Lunenburg County

• 🛌 Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among Virginia's 133 counties: the typical start is 19 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lunenburg County?

The bars show when commuters in Lunenburg 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 Lunenburg County2.6% Virginia5.0%	2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lunenburg County8.3% Virginia4.0%	8.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lunenburg County6.1% Virginia5.0%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lunenburg County11.8% Virginia8.7%	11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lunenburg County12.2% Virginia9.2%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lunenburg County18.1% Virginia14.2%	18.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lunenburg County10.8% Virginia12.1%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lunenburg County8.6% Virginia12.1%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lunenburg County2.6% Virginia6.4%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lunenburg County6.0% Virginia7.2%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lunenburg County0.8% Virginia3.0%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lunenburg County0.2% Virginia1.4%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lunenburg County5.8% Virginia6.0%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lunenburg County6.1% Virginia5.7%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lunenburg County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 17.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 49.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.0%) 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 Lunenburg 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 Lunenburg 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 Lunenburg 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lunenburg County	Virginia	United States
2009	6:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lunenburg County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 19 minutes later than in 2009 (6:56 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Lunenburg County now leave 23 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Lunenburg County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lunenburg County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.3 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.2%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lunenburg County is 30.3 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

3.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau