Brentwood Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brentwood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brentwood 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.

Brentwood holds about 0.6% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brentwood would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,389 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)
Brentwood	23.1 min	46.2 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,974	3,304
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.

Brentwood Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.1 minutes to get to work in Brentwood. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 30.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brentwood

• Car: 68.5%
• Worked at Home: 30.0%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Brentwood: 7.7 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Brentwood, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.

Commute Mode Trends in Brentwood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brentwood 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
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.8%	8.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.1%	9.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	89.3%	8.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	89.5%	7.7%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	89.5%	7.9%	1.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	89.2%	8.2%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	89.5%	8.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	89.2%	8.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	89.8%	8.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	89.9%	8.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	87.6%	10.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.1%	14.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.6%	18.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	75.6%	22.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	70.7%	27.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.5%	30.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2018 at 89.9%. Overall it fell from 89.8% in 2009 to 68.5% in 2024, down 21.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brentwood: its share of workers rose from 8.5% in 2009 to 30.0% in 2024, up 21.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 19.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Brentwood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brentwood?

The bars show when commuters in Brentwood 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 Brentwood1.1% Tennessee5.8%	1.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Brentwood1.9% Tennessee4.4%	1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Brentwood1.6% Tennessee5.5%	1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Brentwood7.4% Tennessee9.9%	7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Brentwood10.2% Tennessee10.1%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Brentwood16.2% Tennessee14.7%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Brentwood16.3% Tennessee11.5%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Brentwood15.3% Tennessee10.1%	15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Brentwood6.2% Tennessee4.5%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Brentwood9.9% Tennessee5.7%	9.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Brentwood3.7% Tennessee2.5%	3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Brentwood1.7% Tennessee1.2%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Brentwood4.6% Tennessee6.8%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Brentwood3.9% Tennessee7.4%	3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brentwood is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Tennessee. Early starts are less common than in Tennessee: 4.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 57.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Brentwood, 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 Brentwood 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 Brentwood 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.

• Brentwood
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Brentwood	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:52 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brentwood were on the road by 7:51 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Brentwood now leave 14 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Brentwood has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Brentwood's commute time compare?

Metric	Brentwood	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	30.0%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brentwood 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. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau