Dyer County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dyer County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dyer County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Dyer County holds about 0.5% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dyer County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,643 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)
Dyer County	15.9 min	31.8 min	133 hrs/yr	$4,108	596
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 15.9 minutes to get to work in Dyer County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dyer County

• Car: 93.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.9%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Dyer County: 3.6 times less than the Tennessee average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Dyer County: just 0.4%, 3.3 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dyer County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dyer 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	96.2%	2.5%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	96.0%	2.7%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	96.1%	2.2%	0.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	96.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	96.8%	1.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	96.6%	1.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	96.5%	1.3%	0.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.5%	2.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	95.6%	2.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	2.7%	1.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.2%	2.6%	1.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.7%	3.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.3%	3.4%	1.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.3%	3.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.2%	4.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	4.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	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 96.8%. Overall it fell from 96.2% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dyer County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 4.9% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Dyer County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dyer County?

The bars show when commuters in Dyer 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 Dyer County9.5% Tennessee5.8%	9.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dyer County2.9% Tennessee4.4%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dyer County6.4% Tennessee5.5%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dyer County8.8% Tennessee9.9%	8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dyer County11.4% Tennessee10.1%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dyer County13.7% Tennessee14.7%	13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dyer County14.1% Tennessee11.5%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dyer County7.0% Tennessee10.1%	7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dyer County2.2% Tennessee4.5%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dyer County2.5% Tennessee5.7%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dyer County2.5% Tennessee2.5%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dyer County0.4% Tennessee1.2%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dyer County7.3% Tennessee6.8%	7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dyer County11.3% Tennessee7.4%	11.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dyer County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.5% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 18.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Dyer 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 Dyer 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 Dyer 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	Dyer County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dyer County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Dyer County now leave 14 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 Dyer County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Dyer County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dyer County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.9 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	4.9%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dyer County is 15.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau