Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · NC · GEOID 37744402024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Wilmington, North Carolina
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 18.5 min one way; 19.2% worked from home, 69.6% drove alone, and 3.1% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip18.5 min±1.2 min MOE
Worked from home19.2%±1.3 pp MOE
Drove alone69.6%±1.8 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.1%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 Wilmington city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -0.0 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +6.6 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 Wilmington city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 69.6%; 0.3% used public transit and 19.2% worked from home.
Each share uses 64,446 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Wilmington city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 9th percentile among covered 100k–500k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is lower than about 91% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 75% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 87% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 87% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Wilmington city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 64,446 workers age 16+, including 52,075 workers with reported travel time and 12,371 home workers.
Population estimate120,805± 73 MOE
Workers age 16+64,446± 1,619 MOE
Workers with travel time52,075± 1,772 MOE
Estimated home workers12,371± 916 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 Wilmington city
These 8 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.