Gibson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gibson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gibson County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Gibson County 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 Gibson County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,441 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)
Gibson County	23.6 min	47.2 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,103	614
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 23.6 minutes to get to work in Gibson County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gibson County

• Car: 92.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.3%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Gibson County: 7.1 times less than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Gibson County: 18.4 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Gibson County: 12.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Gibson County: just 0.2%, 5.6 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Gibson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gibson 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	95.3%	1.8%	0.8%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.3%	2.0%	0.9%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.8%	2.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	95.8%	2.4%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.0%	2.3%	0.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.8%	2.6%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	95.7%	2.4%	0.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.8%	2.0%	1.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.2%	1.5%	1.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.5%	2.0%	2.1%	1.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	3.0%	1.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.8%	3.6%	1.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.9%	4.6%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.0%	5.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.7%	5.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.6%	5.3%	1.7%	0.2%	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 96.0%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 92.6% in 2024, down 2.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gibson County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 3.5 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 2.0% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Gibson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gibson County?

The bars show when commuters in Gibson 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 Gibson County7.3% Tennessee5.8%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gibson County5.1% Tennessee4.4%	5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gibson County4.6% Tennessee5.5%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gibson County8.3% Tennessee9.9%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gibson County10.6% Tennessee10.1%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gibson County19.7% Tennessee14.7%	19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gibson County12.8% Tennessee11.5%	12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gibson County7.4% Tennessee10.1%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gibson County3.0% Tennessee4.5%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gibson County5.1% Tennessee5.7%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gibson County1.8% Tennessee2.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gibson County1.0% Tennessee1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gibson County6.4% Tennessee6.8%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gibson County7.0% Tennessee7.4%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gibson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 17.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.2%) 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 Gibson 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 Gibson 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 Gibson 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	Gibson County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gibson County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Gibson County now leave 16 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 Gibson County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Gibson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gibson County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.3%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gibson County is 23.6 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