Collierville Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Collierville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Collierville spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Collierville holds about 0.7% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Collierville would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,472 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)
Collierville	23.9 min	47.8 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,180	1,961
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.

Collierville Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.9 minutes to get to work in Collierville. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Collierville

• Car: 78.0%
• Worked at Home: 21.3%
• Other: 0.4%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Collierville: 4.9 times less than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Collierville: 3.5 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Collierville: just 0.2%, 5.4 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Collierville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Collierville 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	94.0%	4.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	93.7%	5.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	93.7%	5.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	92.9%	5.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.8%	5.2%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	94.2%	4.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.2%	4.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	5.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	5.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	5.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.2%	4.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.3%	8.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	87.2%	11.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	83.7%	14.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	79.2%	19.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.0%	21.3%	0.4%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2014 at 94.2%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 78.0% in 2024, down 16.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Collierville: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 21.3% in 2024, up 16.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Collierville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Collierville?

The bars show when commuters in Collierville 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 Collierville3.0% Tennessee5.8%	3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Collierville1.8% Tennessee4.4%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Collierville3.9% Tennessee5.5%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Collierville7.3% Tennessee9.9%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Collierville8.6% Tennessee10.1%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Collierville16.7% Tennessee14.7%	16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Collierville12.7% Tennessee11.5%	12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Collierville16.2% Tennessee10.1%	16.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Collierville7.8% Tennessee4.5%	7.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Collierville9.9% Tennessee5.7%	9.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Collierville1.8% Tennessee2.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Collierville0.8% Tennessee1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Collierville4.5% Tennessee6.8%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Collierville5.2% Tennessee7.4%	5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Collierville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are less common than in Tennessee: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 54.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Collierville, 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 Collierville 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 Collierville 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.

• Collierville
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Collierville	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:51 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Collierville were on the road by 7:51 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Collierville now leave 13 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Collierville's commute time compare?

Metric	Collierville	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.3%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Collierville is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau