Marion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Marion County, 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 Marion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marion County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 263 hours, about 11.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.2 minutes.

Marion County holds about 0.4% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marion County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,262 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)
Marion County	31.6 min	63.1 min	263 hrs/yr	$8,154	1,654
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.

Commute Time Map: Tennessee Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Tennessee

Dyer County (15.9 min)
Henry County (16.7 min)
Obion County (17.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Tennessee

Cannon County (33.3 min)
Union County (33.2 min)
Fayette County (33.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Marion County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.6 minutes to get to work in Marion County. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marion County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Marion County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marion 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.

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	Public Transportation	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.9%	2.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.7%	3.4%	0.6%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.5%	3.8%	0.4%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.2%	3.8%	0.5%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.7%	4.0%	0.5%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.6%	4.3%	0.6%	0.1%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.9%	4.5%	0.5%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.6%	4.2%	0.5%	0.1%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	4.3%	0.4%	0.1%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	5.1%	0.2%	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	4.4%	0.2%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	92.5%	5.1%	0.4%	0.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	91.3%	6.6%	0.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	89.4%	8.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	86.5%	9.4%	1.5%	0.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2024	83.6%	13.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	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 95.9% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 12.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marion County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 13.1% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Marion County

Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Tennessee's 95 counties: 32.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM.
Rush-Hour DodgersThe 2nd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Tennessee's 95 counties: only 33.2% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marion County?

The bars show when commuters in Marion 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		13.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		12.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marion County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.8% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 32.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 33.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Marion 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 Marion 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 Marion 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.

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

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Marion County	Tennessee	United States
2009	6:55 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:55 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:55 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:01 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:00 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:04 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marion County were on the road by 7:04 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (6:55 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Marion County now leave 34 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 Marion County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Marion County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marion County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.6 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	05:00 AM – 05:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.1%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marion County is 31.6 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Marion County, TN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Marion County, TN is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 29,249 residents against a local median of 16,809. The measure that sets Marion County, TN apart most is one-way commute: 31.6 min, 19% above the local median of 26.4 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 13.1% against a local median of 11.3%, 16% above it. The counties themselves spread 11.1 min on one-way commute, so Marion County, TN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Marion County, TN has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Marion County, TN	29,249	31.6 min #5/6	13.1% #3/6	7:04 AM #2/6
Grundy County, TN	13,819	31.9 min	5.8%	7:17 AM
Dade County, GA	16,136	26.4 min	11.3%	7:36 AM
Sequatchie County, TN	16,809	30.9 min	15.9%	6:40 AM
Hamilton County, TN	375,392	20.8 min	14.3%	7:49 AM
Franklin County, TN	44,097	20.9 min	8.3%	7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Marion County, Tennessee.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Marion County, Tennessee?

Commuters here spend an estimated 263 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,154 at a typical national wage. That's 41% more than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Marion County, Tennessee?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Marion County, Tennessee. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Tennessee?

Among counties in Tennessee, the shortest average commutes are in Dyer County (15.9 min), Henry County (16.7 min), Obion County (17.1 min). The longest are in Cannon County (33.3 min), Union County (33.2 min), Fayette County (33.1 min).