Crenshaw County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Crenshaw County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Crenshaw County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Crenshaw County holds about 0.3% of Alabama's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Crenshaw County would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,666 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)
Crenshaw County	25.8 min	51.6 min	215 hrs/yr	$6,664	408
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 25.8 minutes to get to work in Crenshaw County. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Crenshaw County

• Car: 94.6%
• Worked at Home: 2.8% unusually low
• Other: 1.5%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Crenshaw County: 3.1 times less than the Alabama average (2.8% vs 8.8%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Crenshaw County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Crenshaw 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
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.6%	5.4%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	92.2%	4.9%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	90.3%	6.6%	1.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	91.5%	5.9%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.6%	5.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.2%	4.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.3%	4.6%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	3.2%	0.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.4%	4.0%	0.6%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.6%	4.2%	0.8%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	91.3%	4.9%	1.0%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	90.1%	6.0%	0.3%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	90.7%	6.4%	0.5%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	91.2%	5.5%	1.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	5.4%	1.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.6%	2.8%	1.5%	0.9%	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 bottomed out in 2020 at 90.1%. Overall it rose from 91.6% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.4% to 2.8% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Crenshaw County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crenshaw County?

The bars show when commuters in Crenshaw 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 Crenshaw County9.6% Alabama6.8%	9.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Crenshaw County3.6% Alabama5.1%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Crenshaw County11.3% Alabama5.9%	11.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Crenshaw County7.9% Alabama9.9%	7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Crenshaw County14.7% Alabama11.3%	14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Crenshaw County18.2% Alabama16.8%	18.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Crenshaw County11.3% Alabama11.8%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Crenshaw County5.9% Alabama8.6%	5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Crenshaw County2.3% Alabama3.5%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Crenshaw County1.1% Alabama4.6%	1.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Crenshaw County1.6% Alabama2.2%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Crenshaw County1.3% Alabama1.0%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Crenshaw County2.4% Alabama6.3%	2.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Crenshaw County8.8% Alabama6.2%	8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Crenshaw County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 24.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Alabama's: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.2%) 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 Crenshaw 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 Crenshaw 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 Crenshaw 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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• Alabama
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Crenshaw County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:58 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:57 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:59 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:00 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:01 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:05 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Crenshaw County were on the road by 7:05 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:07 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Crenshaw County now leave 33 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Crenshaw County's commute time compare?

Metric	Crenshaw County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.8%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Crenshaw County is 25.8 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau