Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · NC · GEOID 37612002024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Shelby, North Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 20.2 min one way; 9.6% worked from home, 79.6% drove alone, and 6.6% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip20.2 min±2.7 min MOE
Worked from home9.6%±2.5 pp MOE
Drove alone79.6%±3.0 pp MOE
60+ minute trip6.6%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 Shelby city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.4 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +3.8 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 Shelby city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 79.6%; 0.0% used public transit and 9.6% worked from home.
Each share uses 9,304 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Shelby city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 22th 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 78% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 61% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 82% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
The 60+ minute share is higher than about 50% of covered places in the under 25k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Shelby city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 9,304 workers age 16+, including 8,413 workers with reported travel time and 891 home workers.
Population estimate22,100± 41 MOE
Workers age 16+9,304± 738 MOE
Workers with travel time8,413± 706 MOE
Estimated home workers891± 240 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 Shelby city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.