Commuting in Cocke County, Tennessee: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.
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Commute Time Burden in Cocke County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Cocke County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.
Cocke County holds about 0.5% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Cocke County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,247 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)
Cocke County
31.4 min
62.8 min
262 hrs/yr
$8,118
782
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.
On average, it takes
31.4
minutes to get to work in
Cocke County.
That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 84% of counties in Tennessee
The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.9% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Cocke County
Car:
93.3%
Worked at Home:
3.9%unusually low
Walked:
1.4%
Other:
1.1%
Bicycle:
0.1%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Cocke County: 6.5 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Cocke County, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.
Working from home is unusually rare in Cocke County: 3.3 times less than the Tennessee average (3.9% vs 12.9%).
Commute Mode Trends in Cocke County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Cocke 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.
Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show commute mode data by year
Year
Car
Worked at Home
Walked
Other
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Taxi
2009
96.5%
1.7%
1.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
96.2%
1.6%
1.7%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2011
97.1%
1.0%
1.3%
0.5%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
97.1%
0.9%
1.3%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
96.5%
1.3%
1.7%
0.3%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
96.7%
1.3%
1.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
96.8%
1.4%
1.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
96.4%
1.9%
0.9%
0.5%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
95.5%
2.4%
0.9%
1.0%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
95.5%
2.2%
0.6%
1.6%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
95.2%
2.3%
0.6%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
94.6%
2.3%
1.4%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
92.9%
4.0%
1.4%
1.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
92.9%
4.7%
1.0%
1.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
91.8%
4.9%
1.3%
1.9%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
93.3%
3.9%
1.4%
1.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 97.1% and lowest in 2023 at 91.8%. Overall it fell from 96.5% in 2009 to 93.3% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Working from home gained the most ground in Cocke County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 3.9% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Working from home peaked at 4.9% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 3.9%.
Commute Start Times in Cocke County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cocke County?
The bars show when commuters in Cocke 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 AMCocke County8.2%Tennessee5.8%
8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMCocke County5.8%Tennessee4.4%
5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMCocke County7.7%Tennessee5.5%
7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMCocke County12.9%Tennessee9.9%
12.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMCocke County9.3%Tennessee10.1%
9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMCocke County11.5%Tennessee14.7%
11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMCocke County9.9%Tennessee11.5%
9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMCocke County8.9%Tennessee10.1%
8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMCocke County2.5%Tennessee4.5%
2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMCocke County5.0%Tennessee5.7%
5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMCocke County1.7%Tennessee2.5%
1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMCocke County0.6%Tennessee1.2%
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMCocke County8.5%Tennessee6.8%
8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMCocke County7.4%Tennessee7.4%
7.4%
Cocke CountyTennesseeSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Cocke County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 21.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 39.7% 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 Cocke 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 Cocke 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 Cocke 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Cocke County
Tennessee
United States
2009
7:34 AM
7:30 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:43 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:46 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:43 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:38 AM
7:30 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:40 AM
7:30 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:32 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:33 AM
7:30 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:29 AM
7:29 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:33 AM
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:31 AM
7:28 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:28 AM
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:18 AM
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:18 AM
7:29 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:18 AM
7:29 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:16 AM
7:29 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Cocke County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Cocke County now leave 22 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 Cocke County has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Cocke County in the whole series.
How does Cocke County's commute time compare?
Metric
Cocke County
Tennessee
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
31.4 min
22.4 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
06:00 AM – 06:29 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
3.9%
12.9%
15.0%
Walked
1.4%
1.2%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Cocke County is 31.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.
0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.
Cocke County, TN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Cocke County, TN is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 36,809 residents against a local median of 59,366. Cocke County, TN's work from home, at 3.9%, runs 50% below the 7.8% typical of the counties around it.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 31.4 min against a local median of 21.7 min, 45% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 45% above the local median it puts Cocke County, TN at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.3% on work from home, so Cocke County, TN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cocke County, TN has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Cocke County, Tennessee.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Cocke County, Tennessee?
Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,118 at a typical national wage. That's 40% more than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Cocke County, Tennessee?
Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Cocke County, Tennessee. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Cocke County, Tennessee?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Tennessee, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Which counties in Tennessee have the fastest and slowest commutes?
Among counties in Tennessee, the shortest average commutes are in Dyer County (15.9 min), Henry County (16.7 min), Obion County (17.1 min). The longest are in Cannon County (33.3 min), Union County (33.2 min), Fayette County (33.1 min).