Grundy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grundy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grundy 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 266 hours, about 11.1 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 9.5 minutes.

Grundy County holds about 0.2% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grundy County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,294 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)
Grundy County	31.9 min	63.7 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,234	629
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 31.9 minutes to get to work in Grundy County. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 88% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grundy County

• Car: 91.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Other: 1.9%
• Walked: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Grundy County: 3.0 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Grundy County, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.

Commute Mode Trends in Grundy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grundy 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.6%	8.5%	0.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.6%	8.9%	0.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.7%	8.1%	0.4%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.5%	7.9%	0.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.6%	7.4%	0.3%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	6.1%	0.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	5.6%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.9%	6.0%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.8%	6.2%	0.7%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.5%	6.8%	0.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	89.8%	6.8%	1.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	90.6%	5.9%	0.6%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	5.6%	1.1%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.5%	5.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	5.6%	1.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	5.8%	1.9%	0.5%	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 was highest in 2015 at 93.1% and lowest in 2010 at 88.6%. Overall it rose from 89.6% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 8.5% to 5.8% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.2% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Grundy County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grundy County?

The bars show when commuters in Grundy 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 Grundy County9.8% Tennessee5.8%	9.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grundy County10.5% Tennessee4.4%	10.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grundy County3.9% Tennessee5.5%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grundy County11.8% Tennessee9.9%	11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grundy County7.9% Tennessee10.1%	7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grundy County10.7% Tennessee14.7%	10.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grundy County11.2% Tennessee11.5%	11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grundy County9.0% Tennessee10.1%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grundy County1.3% Tennessee4.5%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grundy County5.2% Tennessee5.7%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grundy County3.4% Tennessee2.5%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grundy County0.7% Tennessee1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grundy County6.9% Tennessee6.8%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grundy County7.7% Tennessee7.4%	7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grundy County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 11.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 24.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 38.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Grundy 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 Grundy 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 Grundy 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grundy County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:01 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:57 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:55 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:56 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grundy County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Grundy County now leave 21 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 Grundy County has moved 20 minutes later.

How does Grundy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grundy County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grundy County is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau