Pike County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pike 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 Pike County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pike County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Pike County holds about 0.6% of Alabama's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pike County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,693 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)
Pike County	16.4 min	32.8 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,233	492
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

Pike County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Pike County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Fastest county in Alabama

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pike County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pike County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pike 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	94.1%	2.6%	0.4%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.6%	2.5%	1.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	93.7%	2.6%	1.0%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	93.9%	2.1%	0.9%	2.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.5%	3.1%	0.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.4%	3.0%	1.1%	2.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.1%	3.2%	0.5%	2.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	3.8%	0.3%	2.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.5%	4.6%	0.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.7%	3.7%	1.6%	2.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	2.2%	1.2%	1.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	93.9%	2.8%	1.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	93.1%	3.4%	1.4%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	92.1%	3.6%	1.5%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	91.9%	4.5%	1.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	5.3%	1.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 94.4% and lowest in 2018 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pike County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 1.1% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pike County

Night OwlThe 3rd-latest start among Alabama's 67 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:33 AM.
Sleeping InThe 3rd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Alabama's 67 counties: 27.7% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pike County?

The bars show when commuters in Pike 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		5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pike County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Alabama. Early starts are less common than in Alabama: 16.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Alabama: 44.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.7%) 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 Pike 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 Pike 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 Pike 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	Pike County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pike County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pike County now leave 5 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 Pike County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Pike County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pike County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	5.3%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pike County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Alabama.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in Alabama. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pike County, AL Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pike County, AL is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 32,986 residents against a local median of 49,597. Pike County, AL's work from home, at 5.3%, runs 21% above the 4.4% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.4 min against a local median of 20.2 min, 19% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 19% below the local median it puts Pike County, AL at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.9% on work from home, so Pike County, AL sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pike County, AL has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pike County, AL	32,986	16.4 min #1/6	5.3% #2/6	7:33 AM #6/6
Bullock County, AL	10,058	23.0 min	1.1%	7:09 AM
Crenshaw County, AL	13,122	25.8 min	2.8%	7:05 AM
Coffee County, AL	54,920	20.2 min	4.4%	7:19 AM
Montgomery County, AL	226,670	18.8 min	8.0%	7:30 AM
Dale County, AL	49,597	18.9 min	5.0%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pike County, Alabama.

Is living in Pike County, Alabama good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,233 at a typical national wage. That's 26% less than the typical Alabama commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Pike County, Alabama?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Pike County, Alabama. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 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).