Colbert County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Colbert County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Colbert County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Colbert 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 Colbert County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,914 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)
Colbert County	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,784	845
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

Colbert County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Colbert County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Colbert County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Colbert County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Colbert 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	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	95.8%	1.6%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	96.0%	1.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	96.0%	1.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.8%	1.6%	1.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.3%	1.4%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.9%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	96.4%	2.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.6%	2.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	96.4%	2.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.5%	3.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.0%	3.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	5.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	91.4%	6.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	90.5%	7.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	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 96.9%. Overall it fell from 96.3% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Colbert County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Colbert County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Colbert County?

The bars show when commuters in Colbert 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		4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Colbert County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are less common than in Alabama: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Alabama: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.5%) 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 Colbert 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 Colbert 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 Colbert 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	Colbert County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Colbert County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Colbert County now leave 16 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 Colbert County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Colbert County's commute time compare?

Metric	Colbert County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.2%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Colbert County is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Alabama. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Colbert County, AL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Colbert County, AL is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 58,022 residents against a local median of 31,966. Where Colbert County, AL breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 73% above the local median of 4.2% at 7.2%.

The counties themselves spread 7.8% on work from home, so Colbert County, AL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Colbert County, AL has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Colbert County, AL	58,022	18.5 min #1/6	7.2% #3/6	7:22 AM #5/6
Lauderdale County, AL	95,537	20.6 min	7.8%	7:28 AM
Franklin County, AL	31,966	21.0 min	2.3%	7:03 AM
Tishomingo County, MS	18,660	20.5 min	2.9%	6:48 AM
Lawrence County, AL	33,276	30.4 min	4.2%	6:54 AM
Wayne County, TN	16,168	28.2 min	10.2%	7:05 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Colbert County, Alabama.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Colbert County, Alabama?

Commuters here spend an estimated 154 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,784 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Colbert County, Alabama?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Colbert County, Alabama. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 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).