Randolph County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Randolph County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Randolph 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 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Alabama average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Randolph 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 Randolph County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,314 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)
Randolph County	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,784	602
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

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On average, it takes 22.4 minutes to get to work in Randolph County. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Randolph County

• Car: 89.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Other: 1.6%
• Public Transportation: 1.0% unusually high
• Walked: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Randolph County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Randolph 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	2.6%	0.9%	0.1%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	94.5%	2.0%	0.9%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	94.4%	1.5%	0.7%	0.3%	2.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	92.6%	2.4%	0.8%	0.3%	3.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	91.3%	2.8%	1.6%	0.4%	3.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	3.7%	1.1%	0.4%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	4.1%	0.7%	0.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	4.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.6%	4.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.5%	3.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.8%	2.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.3%	3.2%	0.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.0%	4.4%	2.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.8%	5.6%	1.4%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.0%	7.1%	1.7%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.8%	6.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.8%	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 2019 at 95.8% and lowest in 2023 at 89.0%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Randolph County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 6.8% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Randolph County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Randolph County?

The bars show when commuters in Randolph 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 Randolph County12.1% Alabama6.8%	12.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Randolph County7.1% Alabama5.1%	7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Randolph County4.4% Alabama5.9%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Randolph County9.3% Alabama9.9%	9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Randolph County11.9% Alabama11.3%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Randolph County20.1% Alabama16.8%	20.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Randolph County9.1% Alabama11.8%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Randolph County7.0% Alabama8.6%	7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Randolph County0.8% Alabama3.5%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Randolph County1.0% Alabama4.6%	1.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Randolph County0.4% Alabama2.2%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Randolph County0.9% Alabama1.0%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Randolph County7.0% Alabama6.3%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Randolph County8.8% Alabama6.2%	8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Randolph 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: 23.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Alabama's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 48.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.2%) 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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 Randolph 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.

• Randolph County
• Alabama
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Randolph County	Alabama	United States
2009	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:21 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:04 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:21 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:21 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:02 AM	7:20 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:19 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Randolph County were on the road by 7:08 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Alabama, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Randolph County now leave 30 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Randolph County's commute time compare?

Metric	Randolph County	Alabama	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.4 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.8%	8.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Randolph County is about the same as in Alabama.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.3% in Alabama. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.1% in Alabama.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau