Rose Hill Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rose Hill, 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 Rose Hill: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rose Hill 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.

Rose Hill holds about 0.3% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rose Hill would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,298 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)
Rose Hill	31.9 min	63.8 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,244	5,104
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.

Rose Hill Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.9 minutes to get to work in Rose Hill. That's 42% 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 29.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rose Hill

Walking is unusually rare in Rose Hill: 3.1 times less than the Virginia average (0.7% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is unusually common in Rose Hill: 3.1 times more than the Virginia average (7.3% vs 2.3%).

Biking is unusually common in Rose Hill: 3.1 times more than the Virginia average (0.9% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Rose Hill, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rose Hill 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	Bicycle	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	81.5%	4.1%	12.7%	0.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	82.2%	3.8%	12.0%	0.3%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	83.0%	3.2%	12.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	82.5%	3.5%	12.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	80.8%	3.7%	13.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	79.5%	3.9%	15.1%	0.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	77.4%	4.8%	16.0%	0.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	75.5%	6.1%	16.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%
2017	76.9%	5.3%	15.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2018	76.8%	6.1%	15.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%
2019	77.5%	6.4%	14.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2020	73.7%	11.6%	13.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	70.7%	17.4%	10.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	66.5%	22.9%	9.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	64.7%	26.1%	7.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	60.8%	29.8%	7.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 83.0%. Overall it fell from 81.5% in 2009 to 60.8% in 2024, down 20.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rose Hill: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 29.8% in 2024, up 25.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 23.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 12.7% to 7.3% of workers (down 5.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Rose Hill

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rose Hill?

The bars show when commuters in Rose Hill 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		3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.6%

Rose Hill Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Rose Hill is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Virginia: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Rose Hill, 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 Rose Hill 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 Rose Hill 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	Rose Hill	Virginia	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 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	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rose Hill were on the road by 7:38 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Rose Hill now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Rose Hill in the whole series.

How does Rose Hill's commute time compare?

Metric	Rose Hill	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	29.8%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	7.3%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rose Hill is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

7.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rose Hill, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Rose Hill, VA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rose Hill, VA	22,696	31.9 min #2/2	29.8% #1/2	7:38 AM #1/2
Alexandria, VA	156,972	27.4 min	28.9%	7:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rose Hill, Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Rose Hill, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 266 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,244 at a typical national wage. That's 38% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Rose Hill, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Rose Hill, 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.

Do people use public transit in Rose Hill, Virginia?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 7.3% of commuters use it versus 2.3% in Virginia, making it a realistic option for many workers.

How much time do residents in Rose Hill, Virginia save by working from home?

About 29.8% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Rose Hill would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,298 at the same national wage assumption used above.