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Greene County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Greene 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 Greene County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greene County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Greene County holds about 0.1% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Greene County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,452 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)
Greene County 23.7 min 47.5 min 198 hrs/yr $6,129 319
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
  1. Pike County (16.4 min)
  2. Houston County (18.3 min)
  3. Escambia County (18.5 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Alabama
  1. Blount County (33.2 min)
  2. Pickens County (32.5 min)
  3. Lowndes County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Greene County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Greene County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greene County

  • Car: 93.5%
  • Worked at Home: 4.7%
  • Walked: 1.6%
  • Other: 0.1%
  • 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 Greene County, versus 0.1% in Alabama.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Greene County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greene 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 93.3% 1.9% 2.2% 0.4% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 89.9% 1.6% 4.2% 1.5% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 86.7% 1.5% 6.3% 2.4% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 85.9% 1.3% 8.1% 2.0% 2.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 86.6% 2.8% 6.5% 1.9% 2.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 88.9% 2.3% 3.6% 2.6% 2.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 91.4% 2.3% 3.4% 1.8% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 91.4% 4.1% 1.3% 1.6% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.8% 4.1% 1.1% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 94.1% 3.7% 0.8% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 95.8% 3.0% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 95.3% 3.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 95.6% 2.4% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 94.2% 3.3% 2.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 93.5% 5.1% 1.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.5% 4.7% 1.6% 0.1% 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 2019 at 95.8% and lowest in 2012 at 85.9%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.3% in 2009 and 93.5% in 2024.

Working from home gained the most ground in Greene County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 4.7% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 8.1% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Greene County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe biggest shift to earlier mornings among Alabama's 67 counties: the typical start is 35 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greene County?

The bars show when commuters in Greene 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
15.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
12.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
5.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
3.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greene County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 33.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 33.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene County Alabama United States
2009 7:19 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:16 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:23 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:16 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:17 AM 7:21 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:02 AM 7:21 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:06 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:47 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:15 AM 7:21 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:13 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:57 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:54 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:01 AM 7:21 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:36 AM 7:20 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:37 AM 7:20 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:44 AM 7:19 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greene County were on the road by 6:44 AM, 35 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Greene County now leave 54 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 Greene County has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Greene County's commute time compare?

Metric Greene County Alabama US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.7 min 22.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 12:00 AM – 04:59 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 4.7% 8.8% 15.0%
Walked 1.6% 1.1% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Greene County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Greene County, AL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Greene County, AL is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 7,424 residents against a local median of 18,721. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Greene County, AL an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 11% above the local median at 23.7 min against 21.4 min. Greene County, AL has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Greene County, AL 7,424 23.7 min #4/6 4.7% #4/6 6:44 AM #2/6
Hale County, AL 14,829 28.5 min 2.2% 7:27 AM
Sumter County, AL 11,878 20.4 min 9.3% 7:40 AM
Pickens County, AL 18,721 32.5 min 5.0% 6:38 AM
Tuscaloosa County, AL 237,556 20.4 min 7.4% 7:30 AM
Marengo County, AL 18,851 21.4 min 4.6% 7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Greene County, Alabama.

Is commuting expensive in Greene County, Alabama?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,129 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Greene County, Alabama?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Greene 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.

Do people use public transit in Greene County, Alabama?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Alabama, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Alabama have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).