Henry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Henry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henry County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Henry County holds about 0.3% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henry County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,624 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)
Henry County	25.4 min	50.8 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,561	747
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 25.4 minutes to get to work in Henry County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 74% of counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 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 Henry County

• Car: 94.1%
• Worked at Home: 4.4%
• Other: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1%
• Walked: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Henry County: 10.6 times less than the Alabama average (0.1% vs 1.1%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Henry County: just 0.2%, 5.7 times below the Alabama average of 1.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Henry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Henry 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
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.4%	2.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	94.0%	3.4%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	93.9%	3.5%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.8%	3.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.6%	3.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.0%	2.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.1%	2.2%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.8%	2.7%	3.2%	0.1%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.4%	2.6%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.2%	2.2%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	94.1%	3.2%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.3%	4.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.3%	3.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.0%	3.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.6%	3.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.1%	4.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2021 at 95.3% and lowest in 2016 at 92.8%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 94.4% in 2009 and 94.1% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Henry County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Henry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henry County?

The bars show when commuters in Henry 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 Henry County6.9% Alabama6.8%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Henry County4.6% Alabama5.1%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Henry County8.2% Alabama5.9%	8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Henry County11.0% Alabama9.9%	11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Henry County19.8% Alabama11.3%	19.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Henry County14.7% Alabama16.8%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Henry County14.1% Alabama11.8%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Henry County4.4% Alabama8.6%	4.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Henry County3.7% Alabama3.5%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Henry County3.8% Alabama4.6%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Henry County0.3% Alabama2.2%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Henry County0.5% Alabama1.0%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Henry County4.7% Alabama6.3%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Henry County3.5% Alabama6.2%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Henry County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 19.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.3% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Alabama: 52.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.7%) 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 Henry 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 Henry 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 Henry 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	Henry County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:59 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Henry County were on the road by 6:59 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Henry County now leave 38 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 Henry County has moved 14 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Henry County in the whole series.

How does Henry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henry County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.4%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.1%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Henry County is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau