Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Carroll County holds about 0.4% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carroll County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,205 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)
Carroll County	21.3 min	42.7 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,512	554
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 21.3 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 74% of counties in Tennessee

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 5.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carroll County

• Car: 88.4%
• Worked at Home: 5.9%
• Other: 2.8%
• Walked: 2.8%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Carroll County, versus 0.4% in Tennessee.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Carroll County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carroll 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.9%	1.2%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	96.4%	1.5%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	96.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	96.4%	2.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.1%	2.4%	0.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.5%	2.4%	1.5%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.6%	2.3%	1.6%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.9%	2.9%	1.8%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.5%	2.7%	2.2%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	92.7%	2.6%	1.9%	2.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	3.3%	1.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	90.3%	3.4%	2.2%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.7%	5.2%	2.2%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	87.0%	5.6%	3.1%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	6.2%	2.7%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.4%	5.9%	2.8%	2.8%	0.0%	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 2022 at 87.0%. Overall it fell from 96.9% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, down 8.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carroll County: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Carroll County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carroll County?

The bars show when commuters in Carroll 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 Carroll County8.6% Tennessee5.8%	8.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Carroll County4.9% Tennessee4.4%	4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Carroll County6.0% Tennessee5.5%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Carroll County9.9% Tennessee9.9%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Carroll County10.1% Tennessee10.1%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Carroll County13.2% Tennessee14.7%	13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Carroll County15.6% Tennessee11.5%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Carroll County7.2% Tennessee10.1%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Carroll County1.4% Tennessee4.5%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Carroll County3.4% Tennessee5.7%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Carroll County1.5% Tennessee2.5%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Carroll County0.8% Tennessee1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Carroll County8.0% Tennessee6.8%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Carroll County9.5% Tennessee7.4%	9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carroll County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 19.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 46.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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.

• Carroll County
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Carroll County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:20 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carroll County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Carroll County now leave 14 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 Carroll County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric	Carroll County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 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	5.9%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Carroll County is 21.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau