Patrick County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Patrick County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Patrick County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 226 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Patrick County holds about 0.2% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Patrick County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,803 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)
Patrick County	27.1 min	54.2 min	226 hrs/yr	$7,007	420
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 27.1 minutes to get to work in Patrick County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Patrick County

• Car: 83.8%
• Worked at Home: 12.9%
• Other: 1.8%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Patrick County: 5.9 times less than the Virginia average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Patrick County: 615765249.8 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Patrick County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Patrick 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.1%	0.8%	1.8%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.2%	1.2%	2.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.5%	2.1%	2.5%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.9%	2.4%	2.9%	2.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.0%	2.5%	2.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	2.2%	1.9%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.2%	2.4%	1.5%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	95.0%	1.8%	0.9%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.3%	2.0%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.6%	3.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.2%	3.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.0%	7.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	7.5%	1.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.6%	9.7%	1.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.5%	11.1%	1.3%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.8%	12.9%	1.8%	1.1%	0.4%	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 peaked in 2017 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 11.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Patrick County: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 12.9% in 2024, up 12.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Patrick County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Patrick County?

The bars show when commuters in Patrick 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 Patrick County6.4% Virginia5.0%	6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Patrick County5.8% Virginia4.0%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Patrick County5.7% Virginia5.0%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Patrick County11.2% Virginia8.7%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Patrick County11.2% Virginia9.2%	11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Patrick County14.5% Virginia14.2%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Patrick County14.8% Virginia12.1%	14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Patrick County9.3% Virginia12.1%	9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Patrick County3.7% Virginia6.4%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Patrick County2.5% Virginia7.2%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Patrick County1.3% Virginia3.0%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Patrick County1.1% Virginia1.4%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Patrick County5.5% Virginia6.0%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Patrick County6.9% Virginia5.7%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Patrick County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 18.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Patrick 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 Patrick 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 Patrick 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.

• Patrick County
• Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Patrick County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Patrick County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Patrick County now leave 18 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 Patrick County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Patrick County's commute time compare?

Metric	Patrick County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.1 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.9%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Patrick County is 27.1 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau