Anderson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Anderson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Anderson County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Anderson County holds about 1.1% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Anderson County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,387 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)
Anderson County	23.1 min	46.2 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,968	1,642
Tennessee	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,785	1,225
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: Tennessee Counties

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On average, it takes 23.1 minutes to get to work in Anderson County. That's 3% longer 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 13.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Anderson County

• Car: 85.3%
• Worked at Home: 13.1%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.1% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Anderson County: 3.1 times more than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Anderson County: 7.9 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.

Commute Mode Trends in Anderson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Anderson 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.8%	2.6%	1.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.0%	2.4%	1.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.7%	2.4%	1.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	94.7%	2.6%	0.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.8%	2.7%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	95.5%	2.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	95.1%	3.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	94.8%	3.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	95.1%	3.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	95.3%	3.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.8%	3.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	92.9%	5.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	91.1%	7.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	9.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.3%	10.9%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	85.3%	13.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2014 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 85.3% in 2024, down 8.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Anderson County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 13.1% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Anderson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Anderson County?

The bars show when commuters in Anderson 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 Tennessee for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Anderson County7.4% Tennessee5.8%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Anderson County4.1% Tennessee4.4%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Anderson County4.7% Tennessee5.5%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Anderson County11.1% Tennessee9.9%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Anderson County8.7% Tennessee10.1%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Anderson County14.7% Tennessee14.7%	14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Anderson County12.3% Tennessee11.5%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Anderson County8.9% Tennessee10.1%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Anderson County5.1% Tennessee4.5%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Anderson County5.6% Tennessee5.7%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Anderson County3.2% Tennessee2.5%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Anderson County0.9% Tennessee1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Anderson County5.8% Tennessee6.8%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Anderson County7.5% Tennessee7.4%	7.5%

Anderson County Tennessee Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Anderson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 16.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 44.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Anderson 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 Anderson 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 Anderson County next to Tennessee 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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• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Anderson County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Anderson County were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Anderson County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Anderson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Anderson County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 min	22.4 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	13.1%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Anderson County is 23.1 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau