Bradley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bradley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bradley County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Bradley County holds about 1.6% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bradley County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,951 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)
Bradley County	18.9 min	37.8 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,878	1,913
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 18.9 minutes to get to work in Bradley County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% of counties in Tennessee

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 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bradley County

• Car: 89.5%
• Worked at Home: 9.1%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Bradley County: 11.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bradley County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bradley 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	93.8%	3.2%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	93.3%	3.3%	1.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	93.5%	2.7%	1.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2012	93.3%	3.0%	1.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	93.6%	2.9%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	92.7%	3.2%	2.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	92.1%	4.0%	2.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	92.1%	4.1%	2.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	92.5%	3.8%	2.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2018	92.5%	4.2%	1.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	93.1%	3.7%	1.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	93.4%	3.6%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	4.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.4%	5.5%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.2%	8.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	9.1%	1.1%	0.2%	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 bottomed out in 2023 at 89.2%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, down 4.3 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bradley County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.5% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.1%.

Commute Start Times in Bradley County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bradley County?

The bars show when commuters in Bradley 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 Bradley County5.4% Tennessee5.8%	5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bradley County4.4% Tennessee4.4%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bradley County5.2% Tennessee5.5%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bradley County9.4% Tennessee9.9%	9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bradley County10.2% Tennessee10.1%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bradley County13.7% Tennessee14.7%	13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bradley County13.1% Tennessee11.5%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bradley County8.6% Tennessee10.1%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bradley County4.1% Tennessee4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bradley County6.2% Tennessee5.7%	6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bradley County1.5% Tennessee2.5%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bradley County1.0% Tennessee1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bradley County8.0% Tennessee6.8%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bradley County9.2% Tennessee7.4%	9.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bradley County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 15.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 45.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.9%) 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 Bradley 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 Bradley 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 Bradley 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bradley County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 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	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bradley County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bradley County now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Bradley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bradley County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.1%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bradley County is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau