Blount County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Blount County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blount 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 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Blount County holds about 2.0% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 2.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blount County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,370 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)
Blount County	22.9 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,925	1,665
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 22.9 minutes to get to work in Blount County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blount County

• Car: 86.0%
• Worked at Home: 12.3%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.1% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Blount County: 3.2 times more than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Blount County: 5.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Blount County: 3.5 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Blount County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blount 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
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.7%	3.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	95.4%	3.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.1%	3.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.9%	3.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.0%	3.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.3%	3.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.2%	3.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	3.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.1%	4.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.2%	4.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.8%	4.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.1%	6.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.1%	8.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.3%	10.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.7%	11.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	86.0%	12.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 95.4%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 8.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Blount County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Blount County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blount County?

The bars show when commuters in Blount 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 Blount County6.0% Tennessee5.8%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Blount County3.2% Tennessee4.4%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Blount County4.0% Tennessee5.5%	4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Blount County7.8% Tennessee9.9%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Blount County9.2% Tennessee10.1%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Blount County17.0% Tennessee14.7%	17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Blount County12.2% Tennessee11.5%	12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Blount County14.1% Tennessee10.1%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Blount County3.6% Tennessee4.5%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Blount County7.2% Tennessee5.7%	7.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Blount County2.4% Tennessee2.5%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Blount County0.7% Tennessee1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Blount County5.7% Tennessee6.8%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Blount County6.7% Tennessee7.4%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Blount County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are less common than in Tennessee: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 52.6% 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 Blount 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 Blount 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 Blount 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	Blount County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blount County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Blount County now leave 1 minute earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Blount County in the whole series.

How does Blount County's commute time compare?

Metric	Blount County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.3%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Blount County is 22.9 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