Homewood Commute Time Map & Patterns

Q: Is commuting expensive in Homewood, Alabama?

Commuters here spend an estimated 138 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,270 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

Q: What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Homewood, Alabama?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Homewood, Alabama. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Q: Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Homewood, Alabama?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Alabama, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Q: Is Homewood, Alabama a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 13.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Homewood would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,708 at the same national wage assumption used above.

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Commute Time Burden in Homewood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Homewood spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Homewood holds about 0.5% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Homewood would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,708 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)
Homewood	16.5 min	33.1 min	138 hrs/yr	$4,270	4,922
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.

Homewood Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.5 minutes to get to work in Homewood. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Homewood

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Homewood: 4.8 times less than the Alabama average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Homewood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Homewood 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.2%	4.1%	2.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	91.7%	3.3%	2.8%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.8%	3.7%	2.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	3.1%	2.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	3.0%	3.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	90.2%	3.5%	3.3%	0.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	3.3%	2.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	90.8%	4.1%	3.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2017	90.3%	4.5%	3.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	90.2%	4.3%	3.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	90.6%	4.5%	3.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	89.7%	6.3%	3.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	88.5%	8.2%	2.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	87.2%	9.7%	2.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	11.3%	2.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.8%	13.7%	2.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 82.8% in 2024, down 9.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Homewood: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 13.7% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Homewood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Homewood?

The bars show when commuters in Homewood 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		1.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		21.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		17.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Homewood is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Alabama. Early starts are less common than in Alabama: 5.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Alabama: 57.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Homewood, 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 Homewood 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 Homewood 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	Homewood	Alabama	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:55 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:59 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:55 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:58 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Homewood were on the road by 7:58 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:54 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Homewood now leave 21 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Homewood's commute time compare?

Metric	Homewood	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.5 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	13.7%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Homewood is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Homewood, AL Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Homewood, AL is the 4th largest of the 5 cities compared here, 27,106 residents against a local median of 53,683. Where Homewood, AL breaks from the cities next to it is one-way commute, sitting 15% below the local median of 19.5 min at 16.5 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The cities themselves spread 5.1 min on one-way commute, so Homewood, AL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Homewood, AL has the lowest one-way commute of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Homewood, AL	27,106	16.5 min #1/5	13.7% #4/5	7:58 AM #5/5
Vestavia Hills, AL	32,245	18.4 min	17.1%	7:51 AM
Birmingham, AL	207,255	20.6 min	10.4%	7:42 AM
Mountain Brook, AL	23,287	17.3 min	16.2%	7:57 AM
Hoover, AL	75,120	22.5 min	15.9%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Homewood, Alabama.

Is commuting expensive in Homewood, Alabama?

Commuters here spend an estimated 138 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,270 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Homewood, Alabama. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Homewood, Alabama?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in Alabama, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Homewood, Alabama a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 13.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Homewood would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,708 at the same national wage assumption used above.