Shenandoah County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Shenandoah County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Shenandoah County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Shenandoah County holds about 0.5% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Shenandoah County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,642 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)
Shenandoah County	25.6 min	51.1 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,606	1,249
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 25.6 minutes to get to work in Shenandoah County. That's 14% 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 9.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Shenandoah County

• Car: 87.2%
• Worked at Home: 9.3%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Other: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Shenandoah County: 37.3 times less than the Virginia average (0.1% vs 2.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Shenandoah County: 14.8 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Shenandoah County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Shenandoah 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	3.4%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	2.9%	1.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.2%	3.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.4%	3.8%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.6%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	3.6%	2.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.5%	3.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	3.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	4.4%	1.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.9%	4.4%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.2%	4.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	92.2%	5.7%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.5%	6.5%	1.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	7.4%	2.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	8.8%	2.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.2%	9.3%	2.2%	1.2%	0.1%	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 94.7%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Shenandoah County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 9.3% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Shenandoah County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Shenandoah County?

The bars show when commuters in Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah County8.8% Virginia5.0%	8.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Shenandoah County5.6% Virginia4.0%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Shenandoah County7.0% Virginia5.0%	7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Shenandoah County9.2% Virginia8.7%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Shenandoah County7.5% Virginia9.2%	7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Shenandoah County14.7% Virginia14.2%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Shenandoah County9.8% Virginia12.1%	9.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Shenandoah County7.5% Virginia12.1%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Shenandoah County4.4% Virginia6.4%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Shenandoah County5.1% Virginia7.2%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Shenandoah County1.3% Virginia3.0%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Shenandoah County2.4% Virginia1.4%	2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Shenandoah County7.6% Virginia6.0%	7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Shenandoah County9.2% Virginia5.7%	9.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Shenandoah County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 39.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah 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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• Virginia
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Shenandoah County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Shenandoah County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Virginia followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Shenandoah County now leave 14 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 Shenandoah County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Shenandoah County's commute time compare?

Metric	Shenandoah County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.3%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Shenandoah County is 25.6 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau