Haywood County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Haywood County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Haywood County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Haywood 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 Haywood County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,358 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)
Haywood County	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,894	437
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 22.8 minutes to get to work in Haywood County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 05:30 AM – 05:59 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 Haywood County

• Car: 89.4%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Other: 2.7%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Haywood County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Haywood 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
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	97.5%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	96.4%	1.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.3%	1.3%	1.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.3%	1.6%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.3%	1.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.2%	2.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.0%	2.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.1%	1.6%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.3%	1.4%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	96.3%	1.1%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.7%	1.8%	2.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	93.3%	2.1%	2.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	91.8%	2.0%	4.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	89.6%	4.0%	4.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	4.7%	4.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.4%	5.8%	2.7%	2.0%	0.0%	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 97.5% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, down 8.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Haywood County: its share of workers rose from 0.8% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Haywood County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Haywood County?

The bars show when commuters in Haywood 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 Haywood County9.5% Tennessee5.8%	9.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Haywood County3.9% Tennessee4.4%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Haywood County12.8% Tennessee5.5%	12.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Haywood County9.8% Tennessee9.9%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Haywood County10.3% Tennessee10.1%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Haywood County11.4% Tennessee14.7%	11.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Haywood County11.4% Tennessee11.5%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Haywood County9.4% Tennessee10.1%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Haywood County0.7% Tennessee4.5%	0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Haywood County3.1% Tennessee5.7%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Haywood County2.0% Tennessee2.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Haywood County0.8% Tennessee1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Haywood County7.7% Tennessee6.8%	7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Haywood County7.0% Tennessee7.4%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Haywood County is 5:30-5:59 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.5% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 26.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 42.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 Haywood 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 Haywood 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 Haywood 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.

• Haywood County
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Haywood County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Haywood County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Haywood County now leave 28 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 Haywood County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Haywood County's commute time compare?

Metric	Haywood County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	05:30 AM – 05:59 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	2.0%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Haywood County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau