Russell County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Russell County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Russell 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 218 hours, about 9.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Russell County holds about 0.3% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Russell County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,698 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)
Russell County	26.1 min	52.2 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,745	765
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

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On average, it takes 26.1 minutes to get to work in Russell County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Russell County

• Car: 93.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.9% unusually low
• Walked: 1.3%
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 24% more common in Russell County than the Virginia average (93.5% vs 75.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Russell County: 106.1 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 2.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Russell County: 3.7 times less than the Virginia average (4.9% vs 18.3%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Russell County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Russell 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.8%	1.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.6%	1.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.9%	1.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	97.1%	1.0%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	95.1%	2.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	95.5%	2.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	2.9%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	94.5%	3.5%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	93.2%	4.5%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.3%	3.5%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	3.7%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.8%	3.5%	2.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.0%	3.5%	2.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.6%	3.8%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.5%	4.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2012 at 97.1% and lowest in 2021 at 92.8%. Overall it fell from 96.8% in 2009 to 93.5% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Russell County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 4.9% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 2.4% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Russell County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Russell County?

The bars show when commuters in Russell 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 Russell County7.3% Virginia5.0%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Russell County5.6% Virginia4.0%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Russell County6.5% Virginia5.0%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Russell County8.2% Virginia8.7%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Russell County8.7% Virginia9.2%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Russell County12.2% Virginia14.2%	12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Russell County16.6% Virginia12.1%	16.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Russell County9.0% Virginia12.1%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Russell County4.0% Virginia6.4%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Russell County5.5% Virginia7.2%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Russell County1.9% Virginia3.0%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Russell County1.1% Virginia1.4%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Russell County4.9% Virginia6.0%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Russell County8.4% Virginia5.7%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Russell County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 46.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Russell 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 Russell 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 Russell 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	Russell County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Russell County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:46 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Russell County now leave 5 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 Russell County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Russell County in the whole series.

How does Russell County's commute time compare?

Metric	Russell County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.1 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	4.9%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Russell County is 26.1 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau