Bibb County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bibb County, Alabama: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Bibb County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bibb County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 263 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 9.5 minutes.

Bibb County holds about 0.4% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bibb County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,266 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)
Bibb County	31.6 min	63.2 min	263 hrs/yr	$8,164	714
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.

Commute Time Map: Alabama Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Alabama

Pike County (16.4 min)
Houston County (18.3 min)
Escambia County (18.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Alabama

Blount County (33.2 min)
Pickens County (32.5 min)
Lowndes County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Bibb County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.6 minutes to get to work in Bibb County. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest 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 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bibb County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bibb County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bibb 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.7%	3.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.5%	1.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.9%	1.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	97.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.9%	1.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	1.5%	0.3%	0.7%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	2.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.0%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.8%	3.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.7%	4.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.0%	3.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.4%	3.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.9%	4.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	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 2013 at 97.1%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 92.9% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bibb County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Bibb County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bibb County?

The bars show when commuters in Bibb 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		8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		15.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bibb County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 25.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 44.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.5%) 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 Bibb 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 Bibb 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 Bibb 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bibb County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:00 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:44 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:42 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:39 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:46 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:40 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:51 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:54 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:57 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:58 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:52 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bibb County were on the road by 6:52 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bibb County now leave 46 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Bibb County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bibb County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.6 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	4.8%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bibb County is 31.6 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bibb County, AL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Bibb County, AL is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 22,130 residents against a local median of 45,992. The measure that sets Bibb County, AL apart most is work from home: 4.8%, 26% below the local median of 6.4%.

The counties themselves spread 14.7% on work from home, so Bibb County, AL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bibb County, AL has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bibb County, AL	22,130	31.6 min #6/6	4.8% #4/6	6:52 AM #2/6
Perry County, AL	8,031	22.2 min	4.5%	6:59 AM
Chilton County, AL	45,992	30.1 min	6.4%	6:41 AM
Tuscaloosa County, AL	237,556	20.4 min	7.4%	7:30 AM
Shelby County, AL	230,211	30.3 min	16.9%	7:21 AM
Hale County, AL	14,829	28.5 min	2.2%	7:27 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bibb County, Alabama.

Is living in Bibb County, Alabama good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 263 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,164 at a typical national wage. That's 43% more than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Bibb County, Alabama?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bibb County, Alabama. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Alabama?

Among counties in Alabama, the shortest average commutes are in Pike County (16.4 min), Houston County (18.3 min), Escambia County (18.5 min). The longest are in Blount County (33.2 min), Pickens County (32.5 min), Lowndes County (31.9 min).