Cheatham County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cheatham County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cheatham County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 270 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 10.0 minutes.

Cheatham County holds about 0.6% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cheatham County would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,346 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)
Cheatham County	32.4 min	64.8 min	270 hrs/yr	$8,366	1,526
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 32.4 minutes to get to work in Cheatham County. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 94% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cheatham County

• Car: 84.1%
• Worked at Home: 13.7%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Cheatham County: 4.5 times more than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 0.0%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cheatham County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cheatham 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
• Other
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.4%	4.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.2%	5.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.6%	4.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	5.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	4.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	4.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.8%	3.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.1%	4.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.0%	4.4%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.0%	4.5%	1.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.8%	4.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.7%	6.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.0%	8.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.8%	10.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	11.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.1%	13.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2015 at 94.8%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 9.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cheatham County: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 13.7% in 2024, up 9.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Cheatham County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cheatham County?

The bars show when commuters in Cheatham 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 Cheatham County9.4% Tennessee5.8%	9.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cheatham County6.6% Tennessee4.4%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cheatham County7.0% Tennessee5.5%	7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cheatham County12.2% Tennessee9.9%	12.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cheatham County12.8% Tennessee10.1%	12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cheatham County15.1% Tennessee14.7%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cheatham County7.3% Tennessee11.5%	7.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cheatham County10.6% Tennessee10.1%	10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cheatham County2.9% Tennessee4.5%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cheatham County3.0% Tennessee5.7%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cheatham County2.1% Tennessee2.5%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cheatham County1.6% Tennessee1.2%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cheatham County5.0% Tennessee6.8%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cheatham County4.4% Tennessee7.4%	4.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cheatham County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 23.0% 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 6 commuters (16.1%) 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 Cheatham 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 Cheatham 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 Cheatham 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	Cheatham County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:58 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:59 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cheatham County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Cheatham County now leave 34 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 Cheatham County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Cheatham County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cheatham County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.7%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cheatham County is 32.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.2% 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