Dickson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dickson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dickson County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 265 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.4 minutes.

Dickson County holds about 0.8% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dickson County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,283 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)
Dickson County	31.8 min	63.5 min	265 hrs/yr	$8,206	1,008
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 31.8 minutes to get to work in Dickson County. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 87% 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 11.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dickson County

• Car: 85.0%
• Worked at Home: 11.5%
• Other: 1.6%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Dickson County: 4.1 times more than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 0.0%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Dickson County: 3.5 times more than the Tennessee average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Dickson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dickson 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	95.7%	2.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.3%	3.0%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	95.6%	2.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	2.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.5%	2.7%	1.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	2.3%	1.1%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.3%	2.2%	1.0%	2.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	3.0%	0.9%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	3.3%	0.7%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.9%	3.2%	0.6%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	95.1%	3.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	94.3%	4.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.7%	4.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.9%	6.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	8.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	85.0%	11.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 85.0% in 2024, down 10.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dickson County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 11.5% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.8% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Dickson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dickson County?

The bars show when commuters in Dickson 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 Dickson County9.2% Tennessee5.8%	9.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dickson County6.6% Tennessee4.4%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dickson County7.8% Tennessee5.5%	7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dickson County14.2% Tennessee9.9%	14.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dickson County14.0% Tennessee10.1%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dickson County14.1% Tennessee14.7%	14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dickson County6.3% Tennessee11.5%	6.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dickson County5.6% Tennessee10.1%	5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dickson County2.4% Tennessee4.5%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dickson County4.1% Tennessee5.7%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dickson County1.5% Tennessee2.5%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dickson County1.0% Tennessee1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dickson County6.7% Tennessee6.8%	6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dickson County6.6% Tennessee7.4%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dickson County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 23.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 40.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Dickson 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 Dickson 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 Dickson 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Dickson County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:01 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:53 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:53 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:55 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:55 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:56 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dickson County were on the road by 6:56 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:07 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Dickson County now leave 42 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 Dickson County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Dickson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dickson County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.8 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	11.5%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dickson County is 31.8 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau