Powhatan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Powhatan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Powhatan County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.7 minutes.

Powhatan County holds about 0.4% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Powhatan County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,294 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)
Powhatan County	31.9 min	63.7 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,234	1,571
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 31.9 minutes to get to work in Powhatan County. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 86% of counties in Virginia

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 23.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Powhatan County

• Car: 75.4%
• Worked at Home: 23.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Powhatan County: 4.0 times less than the Virginia average (0.5% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Powhatan County: 9.4 times less than the Virginia average (0.2% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Powhatan County: just 0.5%, 4.6 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Powhatan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Powhatan 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	90.4%	5.3%	0.6%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	90.3%	5.4%	0.6%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	91.5%	5.3%	0.4%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	5.5%	0.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.2%	5.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.7%	5.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.5%	6.3%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.9%	7.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.7%	7.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	89.4%	9.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.2%	8.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.1%	12.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.6%	14.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.3%	15.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.5%	19.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.4%	23.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	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 2013 at 92.2%. Overall it fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 75.4% in 2024, down 15.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Powhatan County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 23.1% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 0.5% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Powhatan County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Virginia's 133 counties: 61.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Powhatan County?

The bars show when commuters in Powhatan 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 Powhatan County2.3% Virginia5.0%	2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Powhatan County2.9% Virginia4.0%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Powhatan County5.0% Virginia5.0%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Powhatan County8.6% Virginia8.7%	8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Powhatan County12.7% Virginia9.2%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Powhatan County22.3% Virginia14.2%	22.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Powhatan County14.1% Virginia12.1%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Powhatan County12.2% Virginia12.1%	12.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Powhatan County5.1% Virginia6.4%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Powhatan County6.4% Virginia7.2%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Powhatan County1.1% Virginia3.0%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Powhatan County0.0% Virginia1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Powhatan County3.6% Virginia6.0%	3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Powhatan County3.7% Virginia5.7%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Powhatan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 10.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 61.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Powhatan 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 Powhatan 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 Powhatan 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	Powhatan County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:26 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	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Powhatan County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Powhatan County now leave 13 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 Powhatan County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Powhatan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Powhatan County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	23.1%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Powhatan County is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau