Lawrence County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lawrence County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lawrence County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

Lawrence County holds about 0.7% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lawrence County would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,145 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)
Lawrence County	30.4 min	60.9 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,862	1,593
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 30.4 minutes to get to work in Lawrence County. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 88% of counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lawrence County

• Car: 94.0%
• Worked at Home: 4.2%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Lawrence County: 5.4 times less than the Alabama average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lawrence County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	96.3%	1.6%	0.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.0%	1.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.2%	1.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.9%	1.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.8%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	2.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.2%	2.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.2%	2.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	96.7%	2.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.6%	2.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	96.6%	2.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.7%	3.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	4.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2013 at 96.9%. Overall it fell from 96.3% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, down 2.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lawrence County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 4.2% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Lawrence County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lawrence County?

The bars show when commuters in Lawrence 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 Lawrence County10.7% Alabama6.8%	10.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lawrence County10.1% Alabama5.1%	10.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lawrence County7.1% Alabama5.9%	7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lawrence County13.1% Alabama9.9%	13.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lawrence County11.5% Alabama11.3%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lawrence County14.5% Alabama16.8%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lawrence County6.7% Alabama11.8%	6.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lawrence County4.9% Alabama8.6%	4.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lawrence County3.0% Alabama3.5%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lawrence County3.5% Alabama4.6%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lawrence County1.1% Alabama2.2%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lawrence County0.2% Alabama1.0%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lawrence County5.6% Alabama6.3%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lawrence County8.0% Alabama6.2%	8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lawrence County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 27.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 37.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.4%) 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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	Lawrence County	Alabama	United States
2009	6:56 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:04 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:04 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:00 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:00 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:57 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:52 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:01 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:01 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:54 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lawrence County were on the road by 6:54 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:56 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lawrence County now leave 44 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 Lawrence County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Lawrence County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lawrence County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.2%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lawrence County is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau