Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · NC · GEOID 37359202024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Kinston, North Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 20.7 min one way; 3.3% worked from home, 80.0% drove alone, and 5.2% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip20.7 min±3.6 min MOE
Worked from home3.3%±1.6 pp MOE
Drove alone80.0%±4.8 pp MOE
60+ minute trip5.2%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Kinston city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed +1.8 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +1.8 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Kinston city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 80.0%; 0.4% used public transit and 3.3% worked from home.
Each share uses 6,485 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Kinston city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 25th percentile among covered under 25k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 75% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 94% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is higher than about 55% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 62% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Kinston city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 6,485 workers age 16+, including 6,274 workers with reported travel time and 211 home workers.
Population estimate19,505± 26 MOE
Workers age 16+6,485± 494 MOE
Workers with travel time6,274± 483 MOE
Estimated home workers211± 105 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All North Carolina reports →Comparable North Carolina commute records for Kinston city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.