Loudon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Loudon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Loudon County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Loudon County holds about 0.8% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Loudon County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,272 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)
Loudon County	22.0 min	44.0 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,679	906
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 22.0 minutes to get to work in Loudon County. That's 2% 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 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Loudon County

• Car: 86.8%
• Worked at Home: 12.0%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.3% 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 Loudon County, versus 0.0% in Tennessee.

Walking is unusually rare in Loudon County: 3.9 times less than the Tennessee average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Loudon County: just 0.3%, 4.3 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Loudon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Loudon 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	95.0%	2.8%	0.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	95.0%	2.7%	0.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	95.3%	2.4%	0.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	95.7%	2.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	94.5%	3.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	94.1%	3.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	94.0%	3.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	93.7%	4.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2017	93.3%	4.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	93.3%	5.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	5.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	91.8%	7.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.8%	8.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	9.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.1%	10.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.8%	12.0%	0.9%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2012 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Loudon County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 9.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Loudon County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Tennessee's 95 counties: 54.6% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Loudon County?

The bars show when commuters in Loudon 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 Loudon County5.3% Tennessee5.8%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Loudon County4.6% Tennessee4.4%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Loudon County5.5% Tennessee5.5%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Loudon County10.6% Tennessee9.9%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Loudon County11.1% Tennessee10.1%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Loudon County18.5% Tennessee14.7%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Loudon County12.6% Tennessee11.5%	12.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Loudon County12.4% Tennessee10.1%	12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Loudon County2.2% Tennessee4.5%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Loudon County4.1% Tennessee5.7%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Loudon County3.2% Tennessee2.5%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Loudon County0.4% Tennessee1.2%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Loudon County4.9% Tennessee6.8%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Loudon County4.5% Tennessee7.4%	4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Loudon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 54.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Loudon 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 Loudon 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 Loudon 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	Loudon County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Loudon County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Loudon County now leave 17 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 Loudon County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Loudon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Loudon County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.0 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	12.0%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

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

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau