Southampton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Southampton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Southampton 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.

Southampton County holds about 0.2% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Southampton County would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,846 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)
Southampton County	27.5 min	55.1 min	230 hrs/yr	$7,115	383
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 27.5 minutes to get to work in Southampton 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Southampton County

• Car: 91.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.4% unusually low
• Walked: 2.0%
• Other: 1.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 20% more common in Southampton County than the Virginia average (91.0% vs 75.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Southampton County: 10.2 times less than the Virginia average (0.2% vs 2.3%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Southampton County: 3.4 times less than the Virginia average (5.4% vs 18.3%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Southampton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Southampton 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	2.3%	0.8%	2.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.5%	4.1%	1.5%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.7%	3.9%	1.3%	2.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	4.0%	1.6%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.4%	4.3%	1.4%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.6%	4.0%	1.6%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.5%	2.6%	0.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	3.6%	0.8%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.2%	3.6%	0.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.3%	3.6%	0.8%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	92.2%	4.6%	0.5%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.3%	3.2%	0.5%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.4%	4.9%	0.5%	2.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	5.4%	0.6%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.6%	5.0%	2.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	5.4%	2.0%	1.4%	0.2%	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 2015 at 94.5% and lowest in 2022 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Southampton County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Southampton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Southampton County?

The bars show when commuters in Southampton 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 Southampton County7.7% Virginia5.0%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Southampton County7.3% Virginia4.0%	7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Southampton County6.8% Virginia5.0%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Southampton County9.0% Virginia8.7%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Southampton County13.6% Virginia9.2%	13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Southampton County15.2% Virginia14.2%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Southampton County11.3% Virginia12.1%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Southampton County8.2% Virginia12.1%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Southampton County3.6% Virginia6.4%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Southampton County1.4% Virginia7.2%	1.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Southampton County2.6% Virginia3.0%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Southampton County0.7% Virginia1.4%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Southampton County5.2% Virginia6.0%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Southampton County7.6% Virginia5.7%	7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Southampton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 21.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Virginia's: 48.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Southampton 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 Southampton 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 Southampton 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	Southampton County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Southampton County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Southampton County now leave 27 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 Southampton County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Southampton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Southampton County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.5 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.4%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Southampton County is 27.5 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau