Hardeman County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hardeman County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hardeman County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 8.3 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hardeman County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,170 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)
Hardeman County	30.7 min	61.3 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,924	376
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 30.7 minutes to get to work in Hardeman County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hardeman County

• Car: 89.0%
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Other: 2.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Hardeman County: 5.8 times less than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Hardeman County: just 0.4%, 3.6 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Hardeman County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hardeman 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.5%	2.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	92.5%	2.7%	2.0%	0.1%	0.1%	2.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	94.9%	2.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	95.5%	2.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	3.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.2%	4.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.7%	5.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.6%	5.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.7%	5.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.9%	4.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.7%	3.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.9%	3.1%	0.7%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	4.6%	1.1%	2.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	6.0%	1.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.6%	7.3%	1.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.0%	8.2%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 95.5% and lowest in 2023 at 88.6%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 89.0% in 2024, down 5.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hardeman County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.5% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 0.4%.

Commute Start Times in Hardeman County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hardeman County?

The bars show when commuters in Hardeman 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 Hardeman County12.8% Tennessee5.8%	12.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hardeman County5.3% Tennessee4.4%	5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hardeman County9.0% Tennessee5.5%	9.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hardeman County8.1% Tennessee9.9%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hardeman County10.9% Tennessee10.1%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hardeman County11.6% Tennessee14.7%	11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hardeman County9.4% Tennessee11.5%	9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hardeman County6.3% Tennessee10.1%	6.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hardeman County1.2% Tennessee4.5%	1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hardeman County3.4% Tennessee5.7%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hardeman County1.5% Tennessee2.5%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hardeman County0.2% Tennessee1.2%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hardeman County10.7% Tennessee6.8%	10.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hardeman County9.5% Tennessee7.4%	9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hardeman County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.8% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 27.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 38.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Hardeman 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 Hardeman 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 Hardeman 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	Hardeman County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:57 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:04 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hardeman County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Hardeman County now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Hardeman County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hardeman County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	8.2%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hardeman County is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Tennessee. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau