Rappahannock County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rappahannock County, Virginia: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Rappahannock County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rappahannock County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 269 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Rappahannock County holds about 0.1% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rappahannock County would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,333 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)
Rappahannock County	32.3 min	64.5 min	269 hrs/yr	$8,332	567
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Virginia

Lexington city (10.6 min)
Covington city (12.2 min)
Norton city (13.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Virginia

Amelia County (43.7 min)
Craig County (41.3 min)
Buckingham County (41.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Rappahannock County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 32.3 minutes to get to work in Rappahannock County. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 89% 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 17.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rappahannock County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Rappahannock County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rappahannock 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	80.8%	15.2%	3.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	80.0%	16.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	80.2%	16.5%	1.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	81.7%	14.6%	1.6%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	79.1%	14.8%	3.0%	0.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	80.1%	13.0%	3.4%	0.8%	2.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	85.0%	9.7%	2.8%	0.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.9%	8.0%	3.2%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.9%	7.9%	3.6%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.5%	7.4%	3.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.6%	7.9%	3.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	85.4%	8.2%	4.9%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.8%	13.9%	4.5%	0.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	78.6%	15.2%	3.7%	1.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	74.6%	19.5%	3.3%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.2%	17.2%	5.3%	1.3%	1.0%	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 was highest in 2019 at 87.6% and lowest in 2023 at 74.6%. Overall it fell from 80.8% in 2009 to 75.2% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rappahannock County: its share of workers rose from 15.2% in 2009 to 17.2% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 19.5% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 17.2%.

Commute Start Times in Rappahannock County

Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Virginia's 133 counties: 31.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rappahannock County?

The bars show when commuters in Rappahannock 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		13.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		11.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		1.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rappahannock County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 31.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 44.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.5%) 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 Rappahannock 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 Rappahannock 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 Rappahannock 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Rappahannock County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rappahannock County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Rappahannock County now leave 25 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 Rappahannock County has moved 18 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Rappahannock County in the whole series.

How does Rappahannock County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rappahannock County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.3 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	17.2%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	5.3%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rappahannock County is 32.3 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 5.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rappahannock County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Rappahannock County, VA is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 7,424 residents against a local median of 41,487. Where Rappahannock County, VA breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 46% above the local median of 11.7% at 17.2%.

The counties themselves spread 11.1% on work from home, so Rappahannock County, VA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Rappahannock County, VA has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rappahannock County, VA	7,424	32.3 min #4/6	17.2% #1/6	7:13 AM #1/6
Warren County, VA	41,487	33.3 min	12.4%	7:19 AM
Culpeper County, VA	54,397	27.6 min	11.3%	7:15 AM
Madison County, VA	14,044	23.2 min	11.7%	7:25 AM
Page County, VA	23,667	30.8 min	5.8%	7:14 AM
Fauquier County, VA	74,560	32.5 min	16.9%	7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rappahannock County, Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Rappahannock County, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 269 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,332 at a typical national wage. That's 39% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Rappahannock County, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Rappahannock County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 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).