Bullock County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bullock County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bullock County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Bullock County holds about 0.2% of Alabama's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bullock County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,373 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)
Bullock County	23.0 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,932	286
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

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On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Bullock County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 1.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bullock County

• Car: 97.2%
• Worked at Home: 1.1% unusually low
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bullock County, versus 0.1% in Alabama.

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Bullock County: 7.8 times less than the Alabama average (1.1% vs 8.8%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bullock County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bullock 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
• Other
• Walked
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• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	1.5%	2.6%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.6%	0.1%	1.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.4%	0.3%	0.6%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.2%	0.8%	0.8%	4.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.3%	0.7%	0.2%	5.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	0.9%	0.6%	4.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.8%	2.8%	1.7%	5.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.8%	2.6%	2.7%	5.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.8%	3.0%	1.7%	6.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.4%	2.7%	0.0%	5.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.2%	1.9%	0.0%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.7%	1.0%	0.0%	5.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.0%	0.7%	1.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	97.4%	0.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	97.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	97.2%	1.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2023 at 97.8% and lowest in 2016 at 88.8%. Overall it rose from 93.5% in 2009 to 97.2% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.7% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 3.0% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.

Commute Start Times in Bullock County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bullock County?

The bars show when commuters in Bullock 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 Bullock County10.2% Alabama6.8%	10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bullock County7.6% Alabama5.1%	7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bullock County4.6% Alabama5.9%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bullock County10.4% Alabama9.9%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bullock County12.2% Alabama11.3%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bullock County17.0% Alabama16.8%	17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bullock County7.2% Alabama11.8%	7.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bullock County3.8% Alabama8.6%	3.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bullock County2.5% Alabama3.5%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bullock County0.3% Alabama4.6%	0.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bullock County3.8% Alabama2.2%	3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bullock County0.0% Alabama1.0%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bullock County12.9% Alabama6.3%	12.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bullock County7.4% Alabama6.2%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bullock County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 22.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 40.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.4%) 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 Bullock 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 Bullock 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 Bullock 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bullock County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:52 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:00 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bullock County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bullock County now leave 29 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Bullock County has moved 22 minutes later.

How does Bullock County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bullock County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	1.1%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bullock County is 23.0 minutes, longer 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