Morristown Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Morristown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morristown spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morristown would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,724 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)
Morristown	16.7 min	33.4 min	139 hrs/yr	$4,310	2,406
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.

Morristown Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.7 minutes to get to work in Morristown. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morristown

• Car: 93.3%
• Worked at Home: 3.0% unusually low
• Other: 2.2%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Morristown: 157781412932.2 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Morristown: 4.2 times less than the Tennessee average (3.0% vs 12.9%).

Biking is unusually common in Morristown: 3.2 times more than the Tennessee average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Morristown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morristown 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
• Other
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	94.9%	1.8%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2010	94.8%	1.9%	1.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2011	95.3%	2.0%	1.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	1.2%	2.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	94.1%	1.0%	3.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	0.9%	4.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	93.2%	1.3%	4.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	94.4%	1.2%	3.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.2%	1.9%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	95.7%	2.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	2.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	95.7%	2.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2021	94.4%	3.1%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	94.3%	2.7%	1.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	93.9%	1.9%	1.8%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.3%	3.0%	2.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 95.7% and lowest in 2015 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 93.3% in 2024, down 1.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morristown: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 3.0% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Morristown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morristown?

The bars show when commuters in Morristown 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 Morristown5.3% Tennessee5.8%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Morristown3.6% Tennessee4.4%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Morristown6.2% Tennessee5.5%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Morristown10.9% Tennessee9.9%	10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Morristown8.0% Tennessee10.1%	8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Morristown9.3% Tennessee14.7%	9.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Morristown10.4% Tennessee11.5%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Morristown6.9% Tennessee10.1%	6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Morristown6.2% Tennessee4.5%	6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Morristown4.2% Tennessee5.7%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Morristown2.4% Tennessee2.5%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Morristown3.2% Tennessee1.2%	3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Morristown11.4% Tennessee6.8%	11.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Morristown12.0% Tennessee7.4%	12.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morristown is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.4% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 34.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (33.2%) 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 Morristown, 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 Morristown 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 Morristown 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.

• Morristown
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Morristown	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:54 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morristown were on the road by 7:49 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Morristown now leave 11 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Morristown has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Morristown's commute time compare?

Metric	Morristown	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.7 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.0%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morristown is 16.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau