Coffee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Coffee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coffee County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Coffee County holds about 1.1% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Coffee County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,089 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)
Coffee County	20.2 min	40.4 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,222	599
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 20.2 minutes to get to work in Coffee County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coffee County

• Car: 93.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.4%
• Other: 0.7%
• Taxi: 0.5% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Coffee County: 4.0 times more than the Alabama average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Coffee County: 3.3 times less than the Alabama average (0.4% vs 1.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Coffee County: 13.6 times less than the Alabama average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Coffee County: 5.8 times more than the Alabama average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Coffee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coffee 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation
2009	94.7%	2.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.3%	2.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.4%	2.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.0%	2.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	94.4%	2.6%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	94.8%	2.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	94.9%	2.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	95.1%	2.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.8%	2.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	94.9%	2.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	94.9%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	94.6%	2.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	94.3%	3.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	94.6%	3.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	93.8%	4.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	93.6%	4.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 95.1%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Coffee County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Coffee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coffee County?

The bars show when commuters in Coffee 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 Coffee County10.2% Alabama6.8%	10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Coffee County5.8% Alabama5.1%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Coffee County6.4% Alabama5.9%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Coffee County8.4% Alabama9.9%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Coffee County9.9% Alabama11.3%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Coffee County14.7% Alabama16.8%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Coffee County10.4% Alabama11.8%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Coffee County10.5% Alabama8.6%	10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Coffee County3.5% Alabama3.5%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Coffee County5.3% Alabama4.6%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Coffee County2.7% Alabama2.2%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Coffee County1.2% Alabama1.0%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Coffee County4.7% Alabama6.3%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Coffee County6.3% Alabama6.2%	6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Coffee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 22.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.1%) 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 Coffee 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 Coffee 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 Coffee 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Coffee County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coffee County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Coffee County now leave 19 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 Coffee County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Coffee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Coffee County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.4%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Coffee County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau