Moore County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Moore County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Moore County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Moore County holds about 0.1% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Moore County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,351 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)
Moore County	22.8 min	45.5 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,877	874
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 22.8 minutes to get to work in Moore County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Moore County

• Car: 90.5%
• Worked at Home: 8.4%
• Bicycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Other: 0.2%
• Walked: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Moore County: 7.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.2% vs 1.2%).

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Moore County: 6.7 times more than the Tennessee average (0.7% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Moore County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Moore 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
• Bicycle
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Bicycle	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.9%	2.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	95.7%	2.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	94.7%	3.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	93.4%	4.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.6%	0.0%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	95.1%	3.2%	0.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	96.4%	2.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	95.2%	3.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	95.6%	3.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	95.0%	4.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	94.4%	4.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	93.5%	5.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	94.0%	4.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	93.0%	5.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	92.9%	5.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.5%	8.4%	0.7%	0.2%	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 2015 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 95.9% in 2009 to 90.5% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Moore County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Moore County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Moore County?

The bars show when commuters in Moore 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 Moore County6.9% Tennessee5.8%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Moore County3.2% Tennessee4.4%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Moore County5.9% Tennessee5.5%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Moore County12.6% Tennessee9.9%	12.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Moore County17.2% Tennessee10.1%	17.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Moore County10.6% Tennessee14.7%	10.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Moore County13.1% Tennessee11.5%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Moore County10.0% Tennessee10.1%	10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Moore County1.1% Tennessee4.5%	1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Moore County4.6% Tennessee5.7%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Moore County3.1% Tennessee2.5%	3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Moore County0.0% Tennessee1.2%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Moore County5.8% Tennessee6.8%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Moore County6.1% Tennessee7.4%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Moore County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 16.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 50.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Moore 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 Moore 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 Moore 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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• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Moore County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Moore County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Moore County now leave 26 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 Moore County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Moore County's commute time compare?

Metric	Moore County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	8.4%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Moore County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau