Richmond County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Richmond 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 Richmond County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Richmond County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Richmond 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 Richmond County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,686 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)
Richmond County	26.0 min	52.0 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,715	532
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

Richmond County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.0 minutes to get to work in Richmond County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Richmond County

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

Walking is unusually rare in Richmond County: 6.4 times less than the Virginia average (0.3% vs 2.1%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Richmond County: just 0.3%, 7.3 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Richmond County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Richmond 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.6%	5.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	4.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.3%	5.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.3%	5.4%	0.8%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	90.5%	4.3%	3.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	88.6%	6.8%	1.8%	0.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	86.2%	8.7%	2.1%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	82.3%	12.3%	1.2%	3.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	83.7%	11.1%	0.9%	3.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	82.8%	12.8%	1.0%	2.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.7%	6.6%	1.3%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.1%	7.5%	1.0%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.9%	13.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.1%	13.0%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.9%	17.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.6%	14.9%	3.3%	1.0%	0.3%	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 2010 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 93.6% in 2009 to 80.6% in 2024, down 13.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Richmond County: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 14.9% in 2024, up 9.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 17.6% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 14.9%.

Commute Start Times in Richmond County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Richmond County?

The bars show when commuters in Richmond 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		7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Richmond County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 22.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 55.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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	Richmond County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 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	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Richmond County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Richmond County now leave 19 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 Richmond County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Richmond County's commute time compare?

Metric	Richmond County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.0 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	14.9%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.3%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Richmond County is 26.0 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

3.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Richmond County, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Richmond County, VA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,095 residents against a local median of 12,188. Nothing separates Richmond County, VA sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 11% above the local median at 14.9% against 13.4%. Richmond County, VA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Richmond County, VA	9,095	26.0 min #3/6	14.9% #3/6	7:19 AM #4/6
Westmoreland County, VA	18,825	33.8 min	13.4%	6:58 AM
Essex County, VA	10,620	28.6 min	10.6%	7:18 AM
King and Queen County, VA	6,696	33.8 min	12.8%	7:23 AM
St. Mary's County, MD	115,126	22.7 min	17.5%	7:14 AM
Northumberland County, VA	12,188	23.6 min	15.2%	7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Richmond County, Virginia.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 217 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,715 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Richmond County, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Richmond County, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Virginia?

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).