Bledsoe County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bledsoe County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bledsoe County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 8.8 minutes.

Bledsoe County holds about 0.2% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bledsoe County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,221 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)
Bledsoe County	31.2 min	62.3 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,052	517
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.

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On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Bledsoe County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% of counties in Tennessee

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 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bledsoe County

• Car: 93.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.1% unusually low
• Walked: 1.6%
• Taxi: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bledsoe County, versus 0.0% in Tennessee.

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Bledsoe County: 4.1 times more than the Tennessee average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Bledsoe County: 3.1 times less than the Tennessee average (4.1% vs 12.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Bledsoe County, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.

Commute Mode Trends in Bledsoe County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bledsoe 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	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	95.6%	1.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2010	94.3%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2011	93.5%	3.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2012	93.2%	4.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2013	93.0%	3.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2014	93.2%	4.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	92.2%	4.9%	2.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	90.7%	5.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	90.5%	4.1%	3.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2018	91.1%	3.9%	3.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2019	89.6%	5.9%	3.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2020	90.6%	6.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2021	91.9%	4.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2022	92.2%	5.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.1%	5.2%	2.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.4%	4.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.4%	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 bottomed out in 2019 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 93.4% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bledsoe County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 3.9% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Bledsoe County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bledsoe County?

The bars show when commuters in Bledsoe 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 Bledsoe County7.4% Tennessee5.8%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bledsoe County6.9% Tennessee4.4%	6.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bledsoe County4.4% Tennessee5.5%	4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bledsoe County12.3% Tennessee9.9%	12.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bledsoe County10.5% Tennessee10.1%	10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bledsoe County18.5% Tennessee14.7%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bledsoe County8.0% Tennessee11.5%	8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bledsoe County6.7% Tennessee10.1%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bledsoe County2.6% Tennessee4.5%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bledsoe County6.0% Tennessee5.7%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bledsoe County0.6% Tennessee2.5%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bledsoe County1.2% Tennessee1.2%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bledsoe County5.8% Tennessee6.8%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bledsoe County9.1% Tennessee7.4%	9.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bledsoe County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 18.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 43.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.7%) 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 Bledsoe 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 Bledsoe 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 Bledsoe 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bledsoe County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bledsoe County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bledsoe County now leave 24 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 Bledsoe County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Bledsoe County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bledsoe County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.1%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bledsoe County is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Tennessee. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau