Greene County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Greene County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Greene County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Greene County holds about 1.0% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Greene County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,237 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)
Greene County	21.7 min	43.3 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,593	636
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 21.7 minutes to get to work in Greene County. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Tennessee

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 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Greene County

• Car: 89.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.8%
• Other: 1.3%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Greene County, versus 0.0% in Tennessee.

Public transit is unusually rare in Greene County: 4.7 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Greene County: 4.7 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Greene County: 3.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Greene County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Greene 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.6%	3.0%	0.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	94.7%	3.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.6%	2.2%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.5%	2.3%	0.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.4%	2.4%	0.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.1%	2.3%	1.1%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.9%	2.2%	1.3%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.5%	2.6%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.8%	3.2%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	94.0%	3.2%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.3%	3.1%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	5.1%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	92.4%	5.2%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	92.4%	5.3%	1.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	91.0%	6.6%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	89.6%	7.8%	1.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	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 2011 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 94.6% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Greene County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Greene County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Greene County?

The bars show when commuters in Greene 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 Greene County6.9% Tennessee5.8%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Greene County6.2% Tennessee4.4%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Greene County7.4% Tennessee5.5%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Greene County8.7% Tennessee9.9%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Greene County9.8% Tennessee10.1%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Greene County14.5% Tennessee14.7%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Greene County10.8% Tennessee11.5%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Greene County6.9% Tennessee10.1%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Greene County3.3% Tennessee4.5%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Greene County5.0% Tennessee5.7%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Greene County2.2% Tennessee2.5%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Greene County1.0% Tennessee1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Greene County6.6% Tennessee6.8%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Greene County10.6% Tennessee7.4%	10.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Greene County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 41.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Greene 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 Greene 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 Greene 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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• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Greene County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Greene County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Greene County now leave 15 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 Greene County has moved 2 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Greene County in the whole series.

How does Greene County's commute time compare?

Metric	Greene County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	7.8%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Greene County is about the same as in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau