Morgan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Morgan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morgan County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 269 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.8 minutes.

Morgan County holds about 0.3% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morgan County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,330 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)
Morgan County	32.2 min	64.4 min	269 hrs/yr	$8,324	546
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 32.2 minutes to get to work in Morgan County. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 93% of counties in Tennessee

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 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morgan County

• Car: 91.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Morgan County: 8.1 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morgan County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.7%	3.1%	2.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.2%	2.9%	2.1%	0.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.0%	3.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	93.7%	3.1%	0.9%	0.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	95.0%	2.2%	1.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	95.6%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	95.6%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.9%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.9%	1.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	3.0%	1.5%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.7%	3.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.1%	3.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	5.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.7%	4.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.2%	5.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	6.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2017 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morgan County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.4% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Morgan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan County?

The bars show when commuters in Morgan 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 Morgan County11.9% Tennessee5.8%	11.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Morgan County8.9% Tennessee4.4%	8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Morgan County8.6% Tennessee5.5%	8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Morgan County6.1% Tennessee9.9%	6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Morgan County10.3% Tennessee10.1%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Morgan County18.5% Tennessee14.7%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Morgan County12.5% Tennessee11.5%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Morgan County4.0% Tennessee10.1%	4.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Morgan County3.7% Tennessee4.5%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Morgan County0.4% Tennessee5.7%	0.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Morgan County3.0% Tennessee2.5%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Morgan County1.4% Tennessee1.2%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Morgan County3.6% Tennessee6.8%	3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Morgan County7.2% Tennessee7.4%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morgan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 29.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Tennessee's: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.5%) 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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.

• Morgan County
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Morgan County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:02 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:59 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 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	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:05 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Morgan County now leave 31 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Morgan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Morgan County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.2 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	6.5%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morgan County is 32.2 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau