New Kent County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in New Kent County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in New Kent County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

New Kent 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 New Kent County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,247 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)
New Kent County	31.4 min	62.9 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,119	1,268
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 31.4 minutes to get to work in New Kent County. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of counties in Virginia

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in New Kent County

• Car: 81.6%
• Worked at Home: 17.9%
• Other: 0.3%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in New Kent County: 9.1 times less than the Virginia average (0.2% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in New Kent County, versus 2.3% in Virginia.

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in New Kent County: just 0.2%, 10.3 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in New Kent County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in New Kent 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.9%	2.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	95.2%	3.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.4%	4.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	3.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	92.7%	5.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	92.2%	6.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	6.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	5.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	5.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	5.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	5.9%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.5%	11.8%	0.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	82.9%	15.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	80.6%	17.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	80.4%	18.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	81.6%	17.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2023 at 80.4%. Overall it fell from 95.9% in 2009 to 81.6% in 2024, down 14.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in New Kent County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 17.9% in 2024, up 15.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in New Kent County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in New Kent County?

The bars show when commuters in New Kent 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 New Kent County4.0% Virginia5.0%	4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM New Kent County4.0% Virginia4.0%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM New Kent County7.5% Virginia5.0%	7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM New Kent County9.8% Virginia8.7%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM New Kent County10.3% Virginia9.2%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM New Kent County19.0% Virginia14.2%	19.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM New Kent County8.8% Virginia12.1%	8.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM New Kent County14.4% Virginia12.1%	14.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM New Kent County6.0% Virginia6.4%	6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM New Kent County5.7% Virginia7.2%	5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM New Kent County1.4% Virginia3.0%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM New Kent County0.3% Virginia1.4%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM New Kent County4.0% Virginia6.0%	4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM New Kent County5.0% Virginia5.7%	5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in New Kent County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 52.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 New Kent 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 New Kent 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 New Kent 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	New Kent County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in New Kent County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in New Kent County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does New Kent County's commute time compare?

Metric	New Kent County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.4 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.9%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in New Kent County is 31.4 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes 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