Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · NC · GEOID 37674202024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Thomasville, North Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 20.4 min one way; 9.4% worked from home, 78.6% drove alone, and 4.0% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip20.4 min±2.4 min MOE
Worked from home9.4%±2.5 pp MOE
Drove alone78.6%±5.0 pp MOE
60+ minute trip4.0%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 Thomasville city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -2.2 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +5.0 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 Thomasville city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 78.6%; 0.0% used public transit and 9.4% worked from home.
Each share uses 12,473 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Thomasville city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 20th percentile among covered 25k–100k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 80% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The work-from-home share is lower than about 75% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 97% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 76% of covered places in the 25k–100k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Thomasville city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 12,473 workers age 16+, including 11,300 workers with reported travel time and 1,173 home workers.
Population estimate27,321± 187 MOE
Workers age 16+12,473± 848 MOE
Workers with travel time11,300± 919 MOE
Estimated home workers1,173± 327 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 Thomasville city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.