South Riding Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in South Riding, 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 South Riding: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in South Riding spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.

South Riding holds about 0.4% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in South Riding would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,171 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)
South Riding	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,926	3,583
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.

South Riding Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in South Riding. That's 37% 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 30.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in South Riding

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in South Riding: 10284042321860.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in South Riding, versus 0.2% in Virginia.

Commute Mode Trends in South Riding, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in South Riding 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.8%	8.2%	0.8%	2.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.7%	7.3%	1.3%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.3%	6.4%	0.8%	3.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.8%	7.0%	0.8%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.7%	7.6%	0.6%	3.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.8%	6.4%	0.7%	2.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.6%	6.3%	0.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	88.5%	7.3%	0.6%	3.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	87.7%	7.6%	0.8%	3.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.1%	7.9%	0.7%	3.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	85.2%	9.0%	0.7%	4.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	82.6%	12.6%	0.6%	3.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	77.8%	18.1%	0.7%	2.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	71.9%	23.5%	1.3%	2.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	68.4%	27.6%	1.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	66.5%	30.5%	1.1%	0.9%	0.8%	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 2015 at 90.6%. Overall it fell from 87.8% in 2009 to 66.5% in 2024, down 21.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in South Riding: its share of workers rose from 8.2% in 2009 to 30.5% in 2024, up 22.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 21.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in South Riding

What Time Do People Leave for Work in South Riding?

The bars show when commuters in South Riding 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		6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

South Riding Virginia Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in South Riding is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Virginia. Early starts are about as common as in Virginia: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 South Riding, 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 South Riding 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 South Riding 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	South Riding	Virginia	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in South Riding were on the road by 7:47 AM, 17 minutes later than in 2009 (7:31 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in South Riding now leave 9 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in South Riding has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for South Riding in the whole series.

How does South Riding's commute time compare?

Metric	South Riding	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 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	30.5%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in South Riding is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

South Riding, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How South Riding, VA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
South Riding, VA	31,320	30.7 min #3/3	30.5% #2/3	7:47 AM #1/3
Brambleton, VA	25,017	30.7 min	49.0%	8:02 AM
Chantilly, VA	29,207	25.1 min	25.0%	8:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in South Riding, Virginia.

Is commuting expensive in South Riding, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,926 at a typical national wage. That's 32% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in South Riding, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in South Riding, 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.

Is South Riding, Virginia a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 30.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in South Riding would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,171 at the same national wage assumption used above.