Johnson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Johnson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Johnson County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Johnson County holds about 0.3% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Johnson County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,903 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)
Johnson County	18.4 min	36.8 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,757	566
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 18.4 minutes to get to work in Johnson County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Johnson County

• Car: 89.1%
• Worked at Home: 9.7%
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• 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 Johnson County, versus 0.0% in Tennessee.

Walking is unusually rare in Johnson County: 19.9 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 1.2%).

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Johnson County: just 0.1%, 21.7 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Johnson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Johnson 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.5%	2.4%	0.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.1%	2.9%	0.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	94.4%	3.0%	0.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	91.9%	4.9%	0.0%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	92.5%	5.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	92.2%	6.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	91.9%	6.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	90.3%	6.3%	1.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.7%	4.7%	1.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.7%	6.0%	1.0%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.0%	5.7%	1.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.9%	4.9%	1.0%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	6.7%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.7%	8.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.4%	8.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.1%	9.7%	1.2%	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. Overall its share fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Johnson County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 9.7% in 2024, up 7.3 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Johnson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Johnson County?

The bars show when commuters in Johnson 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 Johnson County4.3% Tennessee5.8%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Johnson County3.8% Tennessee4.4%	3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Johnson County8.4% Tennessee5.5%	8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Johnson County12.1% Tennessee9.9%	12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Johnson County12.5% Tennessee10.1%	12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Johnson County10.8% Tennessee14.7%	10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Johnson County11.7% Tennessee11.5%	11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Johnson County10.5% Tennessee10.1%	10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Johnson County1.7% Tennessee4.5%	1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Johnson County6.1% Tennessee5.7%	6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Johnson County2.3% Tennessee2.5%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Johnson County0.7% Tennessee1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Johnson County4.6% Tennessee6.8%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Johnson County10.5% Tennessee7.4%	10.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Johnson County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 12.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 16.5% 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 (24.2%) 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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 Johnson 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	Johnson County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Johnson County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Johnson County now leave 13 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 Johnson County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Johnson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Johnson County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.7%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Johnson County is 18.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau