Marshall County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Marshall County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marshall County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 234 hours, about 9.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Marshall County holds about 0.5% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marshall County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,901 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)
Marshall County	28.1 min	56.1 min	234 hrs/yr	$7,253	1,129
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

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On average, it takes 28.1 minutes to get to work in Marshall County. That's 25% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marshall County

• Car: 84.2%
• Worked at Home: 14.3%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Marshall County: 5.1 times more than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 0.0%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Marshall County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marshall 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.0%	3.1%	0.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.7%	2.8%	0.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.4%	2.0%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.9%	1.7%	1.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.3%	1.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.1%	1.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.9%	1.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	95.5%	2.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	96.0%	2.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	95.8%	3.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	96.1%	3.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.3%	5.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.5%	7.2%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	9.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.5%	12.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.2%	14.3%	0.8%	0.5%	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 2019 at 96.1%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 84.2% in 2024, down 10.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marshall County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2024, up 11.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Marshall County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marshall County?

The bars show when commuters in Marshall 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 Marshall County7.3% Tennessee5.8%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Marshall County4.2% Tennessee4.4%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Marshall County9.8% Tennessee5.5%	9.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Marshall County12.8% Tennessee9.9%	12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Marshall County11.1% Tennessee10.1%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Marshall County16.4% Tennessee14.7%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Marshall County8.9% Tennessee11.5%	8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Marshall County6.2% Tennessee10.1%	6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Marshall County3.2% Tennessee4.5%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Marshall County3.3% Tennessee5.7%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Marshall County0.4% Tennessee2.5%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Marshall County1.3% Tennessee1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Marshall County8.6% Tennessee6.8%	8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Marshall County6.6% Tennessee7.4%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marshall County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 21.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 42.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Marshall 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 Marshall 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 Marshall 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.

• Marshall County
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Marshall County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:03 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:58 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:00 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:59 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:03 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marshall County were on the road by 7:09 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Marshall County now leave 29 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 Marshall County has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Marshall County's commute time compare?

Metric	Marshall County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.1 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.3%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marshall County is 28.1 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau