Barbour County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Barbour County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Barbour County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Barbour County holds about 0.5% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Barbour County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,098 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)
Barbour County	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,246	252
Alabama	22.1 min	44.3 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,717	1,193
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.

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On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Barbour County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Barbour County

• Car: 92.1%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.3% in Alabama.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.1% in Alabama.

Biking is essentially absent in Barbour County, versus 0.1% in Alabama.

Commute Mode Trends in Barbour County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Barbour County 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	2.3%	2.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	93.7%	1.9%	2.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	93.3%	2.4%	2.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	95.1%	2.0%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.3%	2.1%	1.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	94.9%	1.9%	1.3%	1.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.7%	1.6%	1.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.5%	1.3%	2.1%	1.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.5%	1.3%	2.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.2%	1.3%	2.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.7%	1.5%	2.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	94.7%	1.8%	2.3%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	95.0%	1.6%	2.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	92.4%	4.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	92.1%	5.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	92.1%	6.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 95.1%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Barbour County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.3% to 0.7% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Barbour County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barbour County?

The bars show when commuters in Barbour County 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 Alabama for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Barbour County10.2% Alabama6.8%	10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Barbour County3.1% Alabama5.1%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Barbour County6.9% Alabama5.9%	6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Barbour County13.6% Alabama9.9%	13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Barbour County10.8% Alabama11.3%	10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Barbour County16.7% Alabama16.8%	16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Barbour County11.0% Alabama11.8%	11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Barbour County5.4% Alabama8.6%	5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Barbour County2.0% Alabama3.5%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Barbour County1.9% Alabama4.6%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Barbour County1.4% Alabama2.2%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Barbour County0.3% Alabama1.0%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Barbour County9.4% Alabama6.3%	9.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Barbour County7.3% Alabama6.2%	7.3%

Barbour County Alabama Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Barbour County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 20.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 43.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Barbour County, 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 Barbour County 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 Barbour County next to Alabama 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.

• Barbour County
• Alabama
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Barbour County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:08 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Barbour County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Barbour County now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Barbour County's commute time compare?

Metric	Barbour County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Barbour County is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau