East Ridge Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in East Ridge, 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 East Ridge: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in East Ridge spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

East Ridge holds about 0.3% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in East Ridge would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,084 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)
East Ridge	20.2 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,209	3,253
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.

East Ridge Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in East Ridge. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in East Ridge

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in East Ridge: 6.2 times more than the Tennessee average (0.3% vs 0.0%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in East Ridge, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.

Biking is unusually rare in East Ridge: 7.1 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in East Ridge, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in East Ridge 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	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	96.1%	2.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.8%	2.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.9%	3.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	97.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	94.8%	4.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	94.7%	4.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.5%	3.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	94.2%	4.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	3.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.7%	3.2%	1.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.8%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.9%	4.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.9%	7.8%	2.4%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.9%	12.0%	2.5%	0.0%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.1%	12.2%	2.3%	0.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.2%	12.5%	2.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2012 at 97.0% and lowest in 2023 at 83.1%. Overall it fell from 96.1% in 2009 to 83.2% in 2024, down 12.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in East Ridge: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 12.5% in 2024, up 10.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in East Ridge

What Time Do People Leave for Work in East Ridge?

The bars show when commuters in East Ridge 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in East Ridge is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Tennessee. Early starts are less common than in Tennessee: 7.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.0%) 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 East Ridge, 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 East Ridge 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 East Ridge 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	East Ridge	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:51 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:53 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:56 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:50 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:55 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in East Ridge were on the road by 7:55 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:51 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in East Ridge now leave 17 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in East Ridge has moved 10 minutes later.

How does East Ridge's commute time compare?

Metric	East Ridge	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	12.5%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in East Ridge is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

East Ridge, TN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How East Ridge, TN compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
East Ridge, TN	21,177	20.2 min #2/2	12.5% #2/2	7:55 AM #1/2
Chattanooga, TN	187,055	17.6 min	13.5%	7:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in East Ridge, Tennessee.

What is the financial impact of commuting in East Ridge, Tennessee?

Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,209 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in East Ridge, Tennessee?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in East Ridge, 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.