Sussex County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sussex County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sussex County spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 275 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% more time on the road than the Virginia average of 23.2 minutes each way, a difference of 9.8 minutes.

Sussex County holds about 0.1% of Virginia's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sussex County would save about 110 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,406 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)
Sussex County	33.0 min	65.9 min	275 hrs/yr	$8,516	285
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.

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On average, it takes 33.0 minutes to get to work in Sussex County. That's 47% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 91% of counties in Virginia

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 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sussex County

• Car: 90.4%
• Worked at Home: 8.5%
• Walked: 0.5% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Sussex County: 4.6 times less than the Virginia average (0.5% vs 2.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Sussex County: 5.5 times less than the Virginia average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Sussex County: just 0.6%, 3.9 times below the Virginia average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Sussex County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sussex 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other
2009	94.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	2.5%
2010	92.0%	3.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	3.3%
2011	90.9%	5.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	1.9%
2012	92.0%	4.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2013	92.9%	4.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	92.8%	5.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2015	95.1%	2.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.7%
2016	93.0%	2.8%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	1.7%
2017	91.5%	3.0%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	2.8%
2018	90.6%	2.7%	1.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	3.7%
2019	91.5%	2.1%	2.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	2.6%
2020	91.0%	3.5%	1.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	2.1%
2021	93.3%	2.4%	2.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2022	93.2%	4.4%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	90.0%	8.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	90.4%	8.5%	0.5%	0.4%	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 was highest in 2015 at 95.1% and lowest in 2023 at 90.0%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sussex County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 8.5% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.4% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Sussex County

• 🌅 Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Virginia's 133 counties: 28.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sussex County?

The bars show when commuters in Sussex 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 Sussex County10.4% Virginia5.0%	10.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sussex County10.5% Virginia4.0%	10.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sussex County7.7% Virginia5.0%	7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sussex County7.2% Virginia8.7%	7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sussex County9.8% Virginia9.2%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sussex County14.1% Virginia14.2%	14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sussex County10.7% Virginia12.1%	10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sussex County9.4% Virginia12.1%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sussex County4.5% Virginia6.4%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sussex County4.1% Virginia7.2%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sussex County1.7% Virginia3.0%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sussex County0.3% Virginia1.4%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sussex County3.3% Virginia6.0%	3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sussex County6.3% Virginia5.7%	6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sussex County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Virginia. Early starts are more common than in Virginia: 28.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.7%) 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 Sussex 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 Sussex 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 Sussex 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	Sussex County	Virginia	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sussex County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Virginia, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Sussex County now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Sussex County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sussex County	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.0 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	8.5%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sussex County is 33.0 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.3% in Virginia. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau