McNairy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in McNairy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in McNairy County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

McNairy County holds about 0.4% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in McNairy County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,338 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)
McNairy County	22.6 min	45.2 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,844	414
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 22.6 minutes to get to work in McNairy County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in McNairy County

• Car: 90.3%
• Worked at Home: 8.9%
• Other: 0.3%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in McNairy County: 3.7 times less than the Tennessee average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in McNairy County: 3.8 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Few people walk or bike to work in McNairy County: just 0.4%, 3.7 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in McNairy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in McNairy 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.2%	1.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	95.7%	1.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	2.2%	1.2%	0.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	1.9%	1.7%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	92.8%	2.8%	1.1%	0.8%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	3.4%	0.6%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	92.3%	4.0%	0.7%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	4.9%	0.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	5.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.8%	4.9%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.9%	5.3%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.2%	5.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.5%	6.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	6.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.2%	7.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.3%	8.9%	0.3%	0.3%	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 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 90.3% in 2024, down 4.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in McNairy County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 7.2 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.3% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in McNairy County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in McNairy County?

The bars show when commuters in McNairy 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 McNairy County7.7% Tennessee5.8%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM McNairy County10.0% Tennessee4.4%	10.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM McNairy County9.1% Tennessee5.5%	9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM McNairy County14.4% Tennessee9.9%	14.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM McNairy County11.8% Tennessee10.1%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM McNairy County13.6% Tennessee14.7%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM McNairy County11.4% Tennessee11.5%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM McNairy County4.4% Tennessee10.1%	4.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM McNairy County2.1% Tennessee4.5%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM McNairy County1.5% Tennessee5.7%	1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM McNairy County1.2% Tennessee2.5%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM McNairy County0.6% Tennessee1.2%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM McNairy County6.4% Tennessee6.8%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM McNairy County5.9% Tennessee7.4%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in McNairy County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 26.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 41.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.7%) 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 McNairy 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 McNairy 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 McNairy 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	McNairy County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:59 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:55 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:53 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in McNairy County were on the road by 6:53 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in McNairy County now leave 45 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 McNairy County has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for McNairy County in the whole series.

How does McNairy County's commute time compare?

Metric	McNairy County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.9%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in McNairy County is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.2% 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