Cumberland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cumberland 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 Cumberland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cumberland County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 158 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Cumberland County holds about 0.9% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cumberland County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,962 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)
Cumberland County	19.0 min	38.0 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,905	846
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Tennessee

Dyer County (15.9 min)
Henry County (16.7 min)
Obion County (17.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Tennessee

Cannon County (33.3 min)
Union County (33.2 min)
Fayette County (33.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Cumberland County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 19.0 minutes to get to work in Cumberland County. That's 15% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% 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 9.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cumberland County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Cumberland County: 3.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cumberland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cumberland 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.1%	3.0%	1.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	94.0%	3.1%	0.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	94.6%	2.6%	0.8%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	95.2%	2.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	95.6%	2.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.6%	2.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.9%	3.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.7%	3.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.9%	3.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.5%	3.3%	1.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.7%	4.2%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.8%	4.8%	1.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	5.4%	1.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.3%	6.8%	1.9%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.3%	8.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.2%	9.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	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 2013 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 88.2% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cumberland County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 9.3% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Cumberland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cumberland County?

The bars show when commuters in Cumberland 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		8.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cumberland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 18.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 46.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.6%) 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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 Cumberland 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	Cumberland County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cumberland County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Cumberland County now leave 17 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 Cumberland County has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Cumberland County in the whole series.

How does Cumberland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cumberland County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	19.0 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	9.3%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cumberland County is 19.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cumberland County, TN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cumberland County, TN is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 63,553 residents against a local median of 21,361. The measure that sets Cumberland County, TN apart most is work from home: 9.3%, 43% above the local median of 6.5%.

The counties themselves spread 6.4% on work from home, so Cumberland County, TN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cumberland County, TN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cumberland County, TN	63,553	19.0 min #2/6	9.3% #2/6	7:21 AM #6/6
Rhea County, TN	33,992	21.6 min	6.5%	7:12 AM
Morgan County, TN	21,361	32.2 min	6.5%	7:07 AM
Bledsoe County, TN	15,032	31.2 min	4.1%	7:14 AM
Fentress County, TN	19,309	17.1 min	7.4%	7:10 AM
White County, TN	28,160	20.1 min	10.5%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cumberland County, Tennessee.

Is commuting expensive in Cumberland County, Tennessee?

Commuters here spend an estimated 158 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,905 at a typical national wage. That's 15% less than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Cumberland County, Tennessee?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cumberland County, Tennessee. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Tennessee?

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).