Scott County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Scott County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scott County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 230 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Scott County holds about 0.2% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Scott County would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,848 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)
Scott County	27.6 min	55.1 min	230 hrs/yr	$7,119	664
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 27.6 minutes to get to work in Scott County. That's 23% longer 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 working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Scott County

• Car: 92.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.8% unusually low
• Walked: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.9%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 22% more common in Scott County than the Virginia average (92.1% vs 75.6%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Scott County: 3.2 times less than the Virginia average (5.8% vs 18.3%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Scott County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scott 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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• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	4.3%	0.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.7%	4.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.2%	3.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.5%	3.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.5%	2.8%	0.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	96.2%	2.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	96.3%	2.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	96.2%	2.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.5%	2.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.8%	2.7%	0.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.7%	2.3%	0.2%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.7%	2.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.8%	3.2%	0.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.6%	4.9%	0.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.9%	4.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.1%	5.8%	0.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2017 at 96.5%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Scott County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Scott County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scott County?

The bars show when commuters in Scott 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 Scott County6.7% Virginia5.0%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Scott County8.2% Virginia4.0%	8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Scott County8.0% Virginia5.0%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Scott County10.8% Virginia8.7%	10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Scott County9.4% Virginia9.2%	9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Scott County11.5% Virginia14.2%	11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Scott County9.3% Virginia12.1%	9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Scott County9.7% Virginia12.1%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Scott County4.6% Virginia6.4%	4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Scott County4.9% Virginia7.2%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Scott County3.5% Virginia3.0%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Scott County0.4% Virginia1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Scott County4.9% Virginia6.0%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Scott County8.2% Virginia5.7%	8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scott County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 22.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 39.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.8%) 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 Scott 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 Scott 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 Scott 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Scott County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scott County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Scott County now leave 20 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 Scott County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Scott County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scott County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.6 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	5.8%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scott County is 27.6 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau