Lowndes County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lowndes County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lowndes County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 9.8 minutes.

Lowndes County holds about 0.2% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lowndes County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,301 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)
Lowndes County	31.9 min	63.9 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,253	761
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 31.9 minutes to get to work in Lowndes County. That's 43% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lowndes County

• Car: 89.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.5%
• Walked: 3.9% unusually high
• Other: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Lowndes County: 3.4 times more than the Alabama average (3.9% vs 1.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Lowndes County: 3.2 times less than the Alabama average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Lowndes County stands out for active commuting: 3.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the Alabama average of 1.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lowndes County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lowndes 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	3.9%	0.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.1%	5.4%	0.6%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.2%	4.2%	1.0%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.5%	4.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.3%	3.9%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.5%	3.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.9%	2.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.3%	2.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	1.8%	0.3%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	96.2%	0.9%	0.4%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	96.1%	0.9%	0.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	95.4%	0.9%	1.4%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.7%	2.4%	2.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.9%	3.5%	2.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.2%	2.4%	3.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	4.5%	3.9%	1.8%	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 2016 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Lowndes County: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 3.9% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Lowndes County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lowndes County?

The bars show when commuters in Lowndes 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 Lowndes County16.1% Alabama6.8%	16.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lowndes County6.3% Alabama5.1%	6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lowndes County5.5% Alabama5.9%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lowndes County11.5% Alabama9.9%	11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lowndes County13.8% Alabama11.3%	13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lowndes County18.8% Alabama16.8%	18.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lowndes County9.3% Alabama11.8%	9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lowndes County3.2% Alabama8.6%	3.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lowndes County1.4% Alabama3.5%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lowndes County0.4% Alabama4.6%	0.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lowndes County0.6% Alabama2.2%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lowndes County0.0% Alabama1.0%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lowndes County6.0% Alabama6.3%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lowndes County7.2% Alabama6.2%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lowndes County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.8% 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: 45.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.2%) 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lowndes County	Alabama	United States
2009	6:53 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:51 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:03 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:02 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:54 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:53 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lowndes County were on the road by 6:53 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Lowndes County now leave 45 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 Lowndes County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Lowndes County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lowndes County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.9%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lowndes County is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau