Lauderdale County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lauderdale County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lauderdale County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Lauderdale County holds about 0.3% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lauderdale County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,230 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)
Lauderdale County	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,576	621
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 21.6 minutes to get to work in Lauderdale County. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lauderdale County

• Car: 94.3%
• Worked at Home: 3.1% unusually low
• Other: 1.4%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Lauderdale County: 4.2 times less than the Tennessee average (3.1% vs 12.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lauderdale County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lauderdale 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	96.3%	1.8%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	96.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.3%	2.2%	0.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.1%	1.9%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	96.8%	1.6%	0.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.2%	1.4%	0.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.8%	0.9%	0.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.8%	1.3%	0.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	95.6%	1.2%	1.2%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	95.0%	1.2%	1.8%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.9%	2.3%	2.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	94.2%	2.3%	2.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	95.3%	1.9%	2.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.2%	2.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.3%	3.1%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	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 96.9% and lowest in 2020 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 96.3% in 2009 to 94.3% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lauderdale County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 3.1% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 1.8% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Lauderdale County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lauderdale County?

The bars show when commuters in Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale County8.0% Tennessee5.8%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lauderdale County6.2% Tennessee4.4%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lauderdale County8.6% Tennessee5.5%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lauderdale County11.7% Tennessee9.9%	11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lauderdale County8.5% Tennessee10.1%	8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lauderdale County10.8% Tennessee14.7%	10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lauderdale County11.3% Tennessee11.5%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lauderdale County7.1% Tennessee10.1%	7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lauderdale County2.0% Tennessee4.5%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lauderdale County4.4% Tennessee5.7%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lauderdale County1.6% Tennessee2.5%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lauderdale County0.5% Tennessee1.2%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lauderdale County8.0% Tennessee6.8%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lauderdale County11.1% Tennessee7.4%	11.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lauderdale County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 11.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 22.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 37.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.7%) 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 Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale 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	Lauderdale County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:19 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	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lauderdale County were on the road by 7:19 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Lauderdale County now leave 19 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 Lauderdale County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Lauderdale County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lauderdale County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.1%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lauderdale County is about the same as in Tennessee.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Tennessee. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau