Hickman County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hickman County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hickman 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 268 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.7 minutes.

Hickman 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 Hickman County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,321 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)
Hickman County	32.1 min	64.3 min	268 hrs/yr	$8,303	589
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 32.1 minutes to get to work in Hickman County. That's 43% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hickman County

• Car: 90.1%
• Worked at Home: 8.9%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Hickman County: 6.9 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hickman County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hickman 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	94.0%	3.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	94.5%	3.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	94.2%	3.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	94.2%	3.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2013	93.8%	3.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2014	92.6%	4.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2015	92.7%	3.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2016	92.6%	3.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.6%
2017	90.7%	4.4%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	2.4%
2018	90.9%	3.9%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	2.9%
2019	91.5%	4.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	2.3%
2020	90.7%	5.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	2.2%
2021	89.9%	6.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%
2022	90.2%	7.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2023	91.3%	7.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2024	90.1%	8.9%	0.9%	0.1%	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. Its share was highest in 2010 at 94.5% and lowest in 2021 at 89.9%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 90.1% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hickman County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Hickman County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hickman County?

The bars show when commuters in Hickman 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 Hickman County7.4% Tennessee5.8%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hickman County8.1% Tennessee4.4%	8.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hickman County8.7% Tennessee5.5%	8.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hickman County17.0% Tennessee9.9%	17.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hickman County11.4% Tennessee10.1%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hickman County16.8% Tennessee14.7%	16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hickman County7.8% Tennessee11.5%	7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hickman County4.2% Tennessee10.1%	4.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hickman County0.8% Tennessee4.5%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hickman County3.2% Tennessee5.7%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hickman County2.6% Tennessee2.5%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hickman County0.3% Tennessee1.2%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hickman County6.6% Tennessee6.8%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hickman County5.1% Tennessee7.4%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hickman County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 17.0% 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: 40.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Hickman 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 Hickman 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 Hickman 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	Hickman County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:01 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:02 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:01 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:52 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:50 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:53 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hickman County were on the road by 6:53 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:03 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Hickman County now leave 45 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 Hickman County has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Hickman County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hickman County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.1 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.9%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hickman County is 32.1 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau