Kingsport Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kingsport, Tennessee: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Kingsport: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kingsport spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 6.0 minutes.

Kingsport holds about 0.7% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kingsport would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,697 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)
Kingsport	16.4 min	32.8 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,242	2,168
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.

Kingsport Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Kingsport. That's 27% shorter 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 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kingsport

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Kingsport: 781.9 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Kingsport: 3.8 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kingsport, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kingsport 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.9%	2.7%	0.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.5%	2.0%	0.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	95.0%	2.7%	0.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	95.1%	3.0%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	94.4%	3.4%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	94.8%	3.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	94.7%	2.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	94.4%	2.4%	1.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	92.8%	3.0%	1.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	92.4%	3.2%	2.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	91.6%	3.7%	1.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.6%	6.3%	1.8%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.2%	7.3%	1.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	86.8%	9.3%	2.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	86.4%	10.1%	2.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	85.3%	11.1%	2.1%	1.1%	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. Its share peaked in 2010 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 85.3% in 2024, down 9.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kingsport: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 8.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Kingsport

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kingsport?

The bars show when commuters in Kingsport 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		3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kingsport is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are less common than in Tennessee: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.4%) 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 Kingsport, 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 Kingsport 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 Kingsport 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Kingsport	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kingsport were on the road by 7:49 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Kingsport now leave 11 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Kingsport has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Kingsport in the whole series.

How does Kingsport's commute time compare?

Metric	Kingsport	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	11.1%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kingsport is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.2% 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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kingsport, Tennessee.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Kingsport, Tennessee?

Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,242 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Kingsport, Tennessee?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Kingsport, Tennessee. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.