Prince George County Commute Time Map & Patterns
HelpCommuting in Prince George County, Virginia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
Commute Time Burden in Prince George County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Prince George County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.
Prince George County holds about 0.5% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Prince George County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,150 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince George County | 20.8 min | 41.6 min | 173 hrs/yr | $5,375 | 1,356 |
| 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
- Lexington city (10.6 min)
- Covington city (12.2 min)
- Norton city (13.1 min)
- Amelia County (43.7 min)
- Craig County (41.3 min)
- Buckingham County (41.3 min)
Compare commute times among different counties
On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Prince George County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 10.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Prince George County
- Car: 70.6%
- Walked: 16.4% unusually high
- Worked at Home: 10.2%
- Other: 1.7%
- Public Transportation: 0.8%
- Bicycle: 0.2%
- Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
- Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Prince George County: 4.1 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).
Walking is unusually common in Prince George County: 8.0 times more than the Virginia average (16.4% vs 2.1%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Prince George County, versus 0.2% in Virginia.
Prince George County stands out for active commuting: 16.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 7.1 times the Virginia average of 2.3%.
Commute Mode Trends in Prince George County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Prince George 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.
Show commute mode data by year
| Year | Car | Walked | Worked at Home | Other | Public Transportation | Bicycle | Taxi | Motorcycle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 84.6% | 4.6% | 9.5% | 0.8% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| 2010 | 82.2% | 3.9% | 9.2% | 0.7% | 3.7% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| 2011 | 86.8% | 1.1% | 8.7% | 0.7% | 2.4% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| 2012 | 86.3% | 1.1% | 8.6% | 0.8% | 2.9% | 0.0% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| 2013 | 87.6% | 1.7% | 4.9% | 1.9% | 3.3% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| 2014 | 88.8% | 1.2% | 4.4% | 1.7% | 3.4% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% |
| 2015 | 92.0% | 1.6% | 3.4% | 2.2% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
| 2016 | 92.1% | 1.5% | 3.3% | 2.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| 2017 | 92.1% | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2.1% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.4% | 0.2% |
| 2018 | 94.2% | 0.4% | 2.5% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 1.2% | 0.1% |
| 2019 | 94.4% | 0.6% | 2.3% | 0.8% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.2% | 0.1% |
| 2020 | 92.3% | 0.6% | 4.8% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.9% | 0.1% |
| 2021 | 89.9% | 0.5% | 7.2% | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.1% |
| 2022 | 81.9% | 6.0% | 10.2% | 1.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.0% |
| 2023 | 75.8% | 11.4% | 10.5% | 1.4% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 2024 | 70.6% | 16.4% | 10.2% | 1.7% | 0.8% | 0.2% | 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 2019 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 84.6% in 2009 to 70.6% in 2024, down 14.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Walking gained the most ground in Prince George County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 16.4% in 2024, up 11.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.
Public transit peaked at 3.7% in 2010 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.
Commute Start Times in Prince George County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Prince George County?
The bars show when commuters in Prince George 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
Prince George County6.2%
Virginia5.0%
|
6.2% |
|---|---|---|
| 5:00-5:29 AM |
5:00-5:29 AM
Prince George County5.2%
Virginia4.0%
|
5.2% |
| 5:30-5:59 AM |
5:30-5:59 AM
Prince George County5.4%
Virginia5.0%
|
5.4% |
| 6:00-6:29 AM |
6:00-6:29 AM
Prince George County11.8%
Virginia8.7%
|
11.8% |
| 6:30-6:59 AM |
6:30-6:59 AM
Prince George County8.3%
Virginia9.2%
|
8.3% |
| 7:00-7:29 AM |
7:00-7:29 AM
Prince George County17.7%
Virginia14.2%
|
17.7% |
| 7:30-7:59 AM |
7:30-7:59 AM
Prince George County8.9%
Virginia12.1%
|
8.9% |
| 8:00-8:29 AM |
8:00-8:29 AM
Prince George County11.2%
Virginia12.1%
|
11.2% |
| 8:30-8:59 AM |
8:30-8:59 AM
Prince George County6.4%
Virginia6.4%
|
6.4% |
| 9:00-9:59 AM |
9:00-9:59 AM
Prince George County4.9%
Virginia7.2%
|
4.9% |
| 10:00-10:59 AM |
10:00-10:59 AM
Prince George County1.1%
Virginia3.0%
|
1.1% |
| 11:00-11:59 AM |
11:00-11:59 AM
Prince George County0.7%
Virginia1.4%
|
0.7% |
| 12:00-3:59 PM |
12:00-3:59 PM
Prince George County5.6%
Virginia6.0%
|
5.6% |
| 4:00-11:59 PM |
4:00-11:59 PM
Prince George County6.7%
Virginia5.7%
|
6.7% |
Prince George County Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Prince George County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 46.0% 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 Prince George 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 Prince George 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 Prince George 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.
Show typical departure times by year
| Year | Prince George County | Virginia | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 7:12 AM | 7:37 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2010 | 7:13 AM | 7:37 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2011 | 7:13 AM | 7:37 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2012 | 7:16 AM | 7:38 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2013 | 7:20 AM | 7:38 AM | 7:39 AM |
| 2014 | 7:24 AM | 7:38 AM | 7:39 AM |
| 2015 | 7:24 AM | 7:39 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2016 | 7:21 AM | 7:39 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2017 | 7:17 AM | 7:39 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2018 | 7:19 AM | 7:38 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2019 | 7:19 AM | 7:38 AM | 7:37 AM |
| 2020 | 7:22 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 | 7:19 AM | 7:39 AM | 7:38 AM |
| 2024 | 7:22 AM | 7:40 AM | 7:38 AM |
In 2024, half of commuters in Prince George County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:12 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Prince George County now leave 16 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 Prince George County has moved 3 minutes later.
How does Prince George County's commute time compare?
| Metric | Prince George County | Virginia | US Average |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avg. Commute Time | 20.8 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 | 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM | 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM | 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
| Work From Home | 10.2% | 18.3% | 15.0% |
| Walked | 16.4% | 2.1% | 2.4% |
| Public Transit | 0.8% | 2.3% | 3.2% |
The average commute time in Prince George County is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.
0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 16.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.
Prince George County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
How Prince George County, VA compares with the 2 counties closest to it.
| Area | Population | One-way commute | Work from home | Typical departure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince George County, VA | 43,064 | 20.8 min #1/3 | 10.2% #1/3 | 7:22 AM #3/3 |
| Charles City County, VA | 6,627 | 33.3 min | 9.7% | 7:06 AM |
| Sussex County, VA | 10,765 | 33.0 min | 8.5% | 7:09 AM |
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about commuting in Prince George County, Virginia.
Is commuting expensive in Prince George County, Virginia?
Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,375 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Virginia commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Prince George County, Virginia?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Prince George County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Which counties in Virginia have the fastest and slowest commutes?
Among counties in Virginia, the shortest average commutes are in Lexington city (10.6 min), Covington city (12.2 min), Norton city (13.1 min). The longest are in Amelia County (43.7 min), Craig County (41.3 min), Buckingham County (41.3 min).