Tysons Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Tysons: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tysons spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 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 2.3 minutes.

Tysons holds about 0.3% of Virginia's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tysons would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,628 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)
Tysons	25.4 min	50.9 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,571	3,394
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.

Tysons Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Tysons. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 34.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tysons

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Tysons: 3.3 times less than the Virginia average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 28% less common in Tysons than the Virginia average (54.1% vs 75.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Tysons, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tysons 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	86.1%	5.5%	2.8%	5.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.2%	5.1%	3.0%	6.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	84.7%	4.9%	3.3%	5.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2012	82.8%	5.1%	2.8%	7.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	82.0%	4.8%	3.2%	8.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	79.3%	5.2%	3.3%	10.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	78.2%	5.5%	3.4%	11.2%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	77.5%	6.1%	3.4%	11.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	75.5%	6.9%	4.3%	11.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	75.2%	7.3%	4.0%	11.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	76.4%	6.4%	4.6%	10.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	69.4%	15.5%	4.8%	9.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	63.4%	22.5%	4.4%	8.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	61.6%	26.5%	5.1%	5.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	55.8%	31.7%	6.1%	4.3%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	54.1%	34.5%	6.0%	4.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 86.1% in 2009 to 54.1% in 2024, down 32.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tysons: its share of workers rose from 5.5% in 2009 to 34.5% in 2024, up 29.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 28.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.1% to 4.1% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Tysons

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tysons?

The bars show when commuters in Tysons 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		1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		3.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		14.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		16.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tysons is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.2% across Virginia. Early starts are less common than in Virginia: 3.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Virginia: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.5% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (33.5%) 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 Tysons, 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 Tysons 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 Tysons 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	Tysons	Virginia	United States
2009	8:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:26 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tysons were on the road by 8:26 AM, 21 minutes later than in 2009 (8:05 AM). The shift is sharper than across Virginia, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Tysons now leave 48 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 Tysons has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Tysons in the whole series.

How does Tysons's commute time compare?

Metric	Tysons	Virginia	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 min	23.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	34.5%	18.3%	15.0%
Walked	6.0%	2.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.1%	2.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tysons is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 23.2 minutes in Virginia.

4.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.3% in Virginia. 6.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.1% in Virginia.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Tysons, VA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Tysons, VA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Tysons, VA	24,552	25.4 min #1/2	34.5% #2/2	8:26 AM #2/2
McLean, VA	50,555	27.6 min	38.0%	8:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Tysons, Virginia.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Tysons, Virginia?

Commuters here spend an estimated 212 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,571 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Virginia commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Tysons, Virginia?

Traffic peaks between 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM in Tysons, Virginia. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much time do residents in Tysons, Virginia save by working from home?

About 34.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Tysons would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,628 at the same national wage assumption used above.