Marengo County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Marengo County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marengo County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Marengo County holds about 0.4% of Alabama's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marengo County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,214 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)
Marengo County	21.4 min	42.9 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,536	325
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 21.4 minutes to get to work in Marengo County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marengo County

• Car: 91.3%
• Worked at Home: 4.6%
• Other: 2.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.0% unusually high
• Walked: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Marengo County: 3.3 times more than the Alabama average (1.0% vs 0.3%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Marengo County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marengo 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	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.1%	2.4%	1.2%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.5%	1.8%	1.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.0%	1.2%	1.1%	0.1%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.9%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.0%	2.0%	1.5%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.9%	1.8%	0.9%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.9%	3.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.1%	2.8%	2.2%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.6%	2.8%	2.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.7%	3.2%	1.9%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.3%	3.8%	1.7%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	5.2%	1.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.8%	6.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.4%	5.2%	1.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.8%	4.1%	2.3%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.3%	4.6%	2.5%	1.0%	0.7%	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 2011 at 96.0%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 91.3% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marengo County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 4.6% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 6.4% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 4.6%.

Commute Start Times in Marengo County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marengo County?

The bars show when commuters in Marengo 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 Marengo County7.1% Alabama6.8%	7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Marengo County8.9% Alabama5.1%	8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Marengo County6.5% Alabama5.9%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Marengo County10.0% Alabama9.9%	10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Marengo County9.8% Alabama11.3%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Marengo County20.1% Alabama16.8%	20.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Marengo County10.5% Alabama11.8%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Marengo County6.3% Alabama8.6%	6.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Marengo County3.7% Alabama3.5%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Marengo County2.4% Alabama4.6%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Marengo County0.9% Alabama2.2%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Marengo County1.4% Alabama1.0%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Marengo County5.5% Alabama6.3%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Marengo County6.9% Alabama6.2%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marengo County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 22.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Alabama's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 Marengo 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 Marengo 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 Marengo 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	Marengo County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:04 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:01 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marengo County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Marengo 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 Marengo County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Marengo County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marengo County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.6%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marengo County is 21.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau