Pittsylvania County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pittsylvania County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pittsylvania County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Pittsylvania County holds about 0.7% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pittsylvania County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,420 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)
Pittsylvania County	23.4 min	46.8 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,049	1,036
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

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On average, it takes 23.4 minutes to get to work in Pittsylvania County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 5.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pittsylvania County

• Car: 91.4% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.7% unusually low
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 21% more common in Pittsylvania County than the Virginia average (91.4% vs 75.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Pittsylvania County: 6.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Pittsylvania County: 3.2 times less than the Virginia average (5.7% vs 18.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pittsylvania County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pittsylvania 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
• Walked
• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.1%	3.8%	1.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.1%	3.6%	1.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	3.2%	0.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.4%	2.9%	0.8%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.9%	2.9%	0.7%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.0%	2.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.4%	3.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	3.2%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.5%	3.7%	1.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	93.3%	3.6%	0.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	93.0%	3.7%	0.7%	2.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.6%	3.9%	0.8%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	92.6%	4.1%	0.7%	2.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.5%	4.1%	1.3%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.3%	4.7%	1.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	5.7%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	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 95.0%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pittsylvania County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pittsylvania County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pittsylvania County?

The bars show when commuters in Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania County4.8% Virginia5.0%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pittsylvania County3.1% Virginia4.0%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pittsylvania County4.1% Virginia5.0%	4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pittsylvania County10.6% Virginia8.7%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pittsylvania County11.1% Virginia9.2%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pittsylvania County19.3% Virginia14.2%	19.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pittsylvania County16.0% Virginia12.1%	16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pittsylvania County8.8% Virginia12.1%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pittsylvania County4.7% Virginia6.4%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pittsylvania County3.7% Virginia7.2%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pittsylvania County1.8% Virginia3.0%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pittsylvania County1.0% Virginia1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pittsylvania County5.2% Virginia6.0%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pittsylvania County5.9% Virginia5.7%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pittsylvania County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 12.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 55.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania 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 Pittsylvania 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	Pittsylvania County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pittsylvania County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Pittsylvania County now leave 12 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 Pittsylvania County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Pittsylvania County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pittsylvania County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.7%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pittsylvania County is about the same as in Virginia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau