Pickens County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pickens County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pickens County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 270 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 47% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 10.3 minutes.

Pickens County holds about 0.4% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pickens County would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,353 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)
Pickens County	32.5 min	64.9 min	270 hrs/yr	$8,383	328
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 32.5 minutes to get to work in Pickens County. That's 45% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Alabama

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pickens County

• Car: 94.0%
• Worked at Home: 5.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is unusually rare in Pickens County: 6.2 times less than the Alabama average (0.2% vs 1.1%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Pickens County: just 0.2%, 6.6 times below the Alabama average of 1.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Pickens County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pickens 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	94.5%	3.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	94.4%	3.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	95.2%	3.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	93.8%	4.2%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	94.4%	3.1%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	94.4%	3.1%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	93.8%	3.6%	0.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	92.8%	4.7%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2017	93.2%	4.0%	0.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	91.7%	6.0%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	91.2%	6.4%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	91.4%	6.5%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	6.2%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.2%	6.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.5%	5.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	5.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2011 at 95.2% and lowest in 2019 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pickens County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 5.0% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 6.5% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 5.0%.

Commute Start Times in Pickens County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pickens County?

The bars show when commuters in Pickens 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 Pickens County11.0% Alabama6.8%	11.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pickens County6.2% Alabama5.1%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pickens County10.7% Alabama5.9%	10.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pickens County18.6% Alabama9.9%	18.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pickens County12.4% Alabama11.3%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pickens County13.0% Alabama16.8%	13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pickens County11.4% Alabama11.8%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pickens County3.1% Alabama8.6%	3.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pickens County1.5% Alabama3.5%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pickens County2.0% Alabama4.6%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pickens County0.6% Alabama2.2%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pickens County0.2% Alabama1.0%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pickens County4.5% Alabama6.3%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pickens County4.8% Alabama6.2%	4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pickens County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% 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: 39.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.1%) 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 Pickens 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 Pickens 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 Pickens 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	Pickens County	Alabama	United States
2009	6:54 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:55 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:57 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:55 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:49 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:45 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:52 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:50 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:47 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:53 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:49 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:39 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pickens County were on the road by 6:39 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:54 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pickens County now leave 59 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 Pickens County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Pickens County in the whole series.

How does Pickens County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pickens County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.5 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.0%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pickens County is 32.5 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau