Morgan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Morgan County, Alabama: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Morgan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morgan County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Morgan County holds about 2.4% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 2.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morgan County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,340 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)
Morgan County	22.6 min	45.3 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,849	1,753
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.

Commute Time Map: Alabama Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Alabama

Pike County (16.4 min)
Houston County (18.3 min)
Escambia County (18.5 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Alabama

Blount County (33.2 min)
Pickens County (32.5 min)
Lowndes County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Morgan County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Morgan County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morgan County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morgan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morgan 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.

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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	96.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	96.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.4%	2.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.4%	2.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.8%	1.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.6%	1.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	96.9%	1.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	96.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	96.8%	1.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	96.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.8%	2.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.4%	3.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.9%	5.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	5.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.5%	7.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 96.9%. Overall it fell from 96.1% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morgan County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Morgan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan County?

The bars show when commuters in Morgan 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morgan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Alabama. Early starts are more common than in Alabama: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 43.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Morgan County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Morgan County now leave 25 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 Morgan County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Morgan County in the whole series.

How does Morgan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Morgan County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	7.2%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morgan County is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morgan County, AL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morgan County, AL is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 124,471 residents against a local median of 90,566. Where Morgan County, AL breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 17% above the local median of 6.1% at 7.2%.

The counties themselves spread 10.9% on work from home, so Morgan County, AL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morgan County, AL has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Morgan County, AL	124,471	22.6 min #3/6	7.2% #3/6	7:12 AM #5/6
Cullman County, AL	90,566	21.5 min	4.2%	7:09 AM
Limestone County, AL	111,233	25.3 min	11.1%	7:11 AM
Madison County, AL	405,488	21.3 min	15.1%	7:29 AM
Lawrence County, AL	33,276	30.4 min	4.2%	6:54 AM
Blount County, AL	59,518	33.2 min	6.1%	6:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morgan County, Alabama.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Morgan County, Alabama?

Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,849 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Morgan County, Alabama?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Morgan County, Alabama. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Alabama?

Among counties in Alabama, the shortest average commutes are in Pike County (16.4 min), Houston County (18.3 min), Escambia County (18.5 min). The longest are in Blount County (33.2 min), Pickens County (32.5 min), Lowndes County (31.9 min).