Hawkins County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hawkins County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hawkins County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 200 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Hawkins County holds about 0.8% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hawkins County would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,477 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)
Hawkins County	24.0 min	47.9 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,192	757
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 24.0 minutes to get to work in Hawkins County. That's 7% 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 11.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hawkins County

• Car: 84.6%
• Worked at Home: 11.3%
• Other: 2.0%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Hawkins County: 3.9 times more than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Hawkins County, versus 0.4% in Tennessee.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hawkins County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hawkins 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	97.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	97.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	96.4%	1.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.7%	1.8%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.3%	1.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.2%	1.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.8%	2.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.2%	2.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	2.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.3%	2.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.0%	2.9%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.8%	4.1%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	91.8%	5.6%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	88.8%	8.5%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.0%	10.0%	2.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.6%	11.3%	2.0%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 97.0% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 12.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hawkins County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 11.3% in 2024, up 9.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Hawkins County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hawkins County?

The bars show when commuters in Hawkins 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 Hawkins County4.9% Tennessee5.8%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hawkins County6.8% Tennessee4.4%	6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hawkins County6.6% Tennessee5.5%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hawkins County10.6% Tennessee9.9%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hawkins County10.0% Tennessee10.1%	10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hawkins County15.1% Tennessee14.7%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hawkins County10.8% Tennessee11.5%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hawkins County9.6% Tennessee10.1%	9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hawkins County2.0% Tennessee4.5%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hawkins County3.5% Tennessee5.7%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hawkins County2.0% Tennessee2.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hawkins County0.7% Tennessee1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hawkins County8.2% Tennessee6.8%	8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hawkins County9.3% Tennessee7.4%	9.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hawkins County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 18.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Hawkins 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 Hawkins 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 Hawkins 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	Hawkins County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hawkins County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Hawkins 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 Hawkins County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Hawkins County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hawkins County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	24.0 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	11.3%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hawkins County is 24.0 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau