Henderson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Henderson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henderson County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Henderson County holds about 0.4% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henderson County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,416 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)
Henderson County	23.4 min	46.8 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,041	630
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 23.4 minutes to get to work in Henderson County. That's 4% 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 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Henderson County

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 9.8%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• 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 Henderson County, versus 0.0% in Tennessee.

Public transit is unusually rare in Henderson County: 5.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Henderson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Henderson 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.8%	3.9%	0.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.2%	3.7%	0.3%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	94.7%	3.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.6%	3.0%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.6%	4.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.5%	3.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	95.4%	3.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	3.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.2%	3.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	4.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	93.1%	5.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.4%	9.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	89.6%	8.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	88.9%	9.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	88.7%	9.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.3%	9.8%	1.1%	0.7%	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 2012 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 93.8% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, down 5.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Henderson County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Henderson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henderson County?

The bars show when commuters in Henderson 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 Henderson County7.3% Tennessee5.8%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Henderson County7.5% Tennessee4.4%	7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Henderson County4.7% Tennessee5.5%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Henderson County9.7% Tennessee9.9%	9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Henderson County10.7% Tennessee10.1%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Henderson County21.4% Tennessee14.7%	21.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Henderson County12.3% Tennessee11.5%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Henderson County4.0% Tennessee10.1%	4.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Henderson County2.5% Tennessee4.5%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Henderson County1.8% Tennessee5.7%	1.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Henderson County1.2% Tennessee2.5%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Henderson County3.0% Tennessee1.2%	3.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Henderson County8.4% Tennessee6.8%	8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Henderson County5.4% Tennessee7.4%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Henderson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Henderson 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 Henderson 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 Henderson 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	Henderson County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Henderson County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Henderson County now leave 24 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 Henderson County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Henderson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henderson County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 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	9.8%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Henderson County is 23.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau