Limestone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Limestone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Limestone 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 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Limestone County holds about 2.2% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 2.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Limestone County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,617 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)
Limestone County	25.3 min	50.7 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,543	1,848
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 25.3 minutes to get to work in Limestone County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% 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 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Limestone County

• Car: 87.5%
• Worked at Home: 11.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Limestone County: 12.6 times less than the Alabama average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Limestone County: 14.3 times less than the Alabama average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Limestone County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.7%	2.0%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	96.0%	1.9%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	96.1%	1.9%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.4%	2.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.8%	1.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.5%	2.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.0%	2.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.8%	2.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	2.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.1%	2.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.4%	3.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.3%	6.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	7.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	9.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.5%	11.1%	0.7%	0.6%	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 peaked in 2013 at 96.8%. Overall it fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 87.5% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Limestone County: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Limestone County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Limestone County?

The bars show when commuters in Limestone 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 Limestone County6.4% Alabama6.8%	6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Limestone County6.5% Alabama5.1%	6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Limestone County7.7% Alabama5.9%	7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Limestone County10.3% Alabama9.9%	10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Limestone County12.7% Alabama11.3%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Limestone County16.8% Alabama16.8%	16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Limestone County10.8% Alabama11.8%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Limestone County8.0% Alabama8.6%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Limestone County3.2% Alabama3.5%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Limestone County3.8% Alabama4.6%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Limestone County1.2% Alabama2.2%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Limestone County1.3% Alabama1.0%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Limestone County6.6% Alabama6.3%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Limestone County4.7% Alabama6.2%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Limestone County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 20.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Alabama's: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Limestone 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 Limestone 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 Limestone 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.

• Limestone County
• Alabama
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Limestone County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Limestone County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Limestone County now leave 26 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 Limestone County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Limestone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Limestone County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 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	11.1%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Limestone County is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau