Obion County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Obion County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Obion County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.

Obion County 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 Obion County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,767 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)
Obion County	17.1 min	34.2 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,417	364
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 17.1 minutes to get to work in Obion County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Tennessee

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Obion County

• Car: 92.0%
• Worked at Home: 3.2% unusually low
• Other: 2.8%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Obion County: 3.6 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Obion County: 4.0 times less than the Tennessee average (3.2% vs 12.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Obion County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Obion 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.6%	2.2%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.6%	2.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	96.1%	1.7%	0.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	96.3%	1.4%	0.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.3%	1.7%	1.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.6%	2.3%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.2%	2.4%	1.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.0%	2.6%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.8%	2.8%	1.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.3%	2.6%	1.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.3%	2.6%	1.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.4%	2.2%	1.6%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	2.1%	1.5%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.6%	3.8%	1.9%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.1%	3.7%	1.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.0%	3.2%	2.8%	1.6%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2012 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 92.0% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Obion County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Obion County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Obion County?

The bars show when commuters in Obion 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 Obion County5.6% Tennessee5.8%	5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Obion County5.2% Tennessee4.4%	5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Obion County5.7% Tennessee5.5%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Obion County8.8% Tennessee9.9%	8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Obion County15.5% Tennessee10.1%	15.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Obion County18.0% Tennessee14.7%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Obion County11.9% Tennessee11.5%	11.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Obion County6.8% Tennessee10.1%	6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Obion County1.5% Tennessee4.5%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Obion County3.6% Tennessee5.7%	3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Obion County0.6% Tennessee2.5%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Obion County0.3% Tennessee1.2%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Obion County7.2% Tennessee6.8%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Obion County9.4% Tennessee7.4%	9.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Obion County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are about as common as in Tennessee: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Obion 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 Obion 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 Obion 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Obion County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Obion County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Obion County now leave 22 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 Obion County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Obion County in the whole series.

How does Obion County's commute time compare?

Metric	Obion County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.2%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Obion County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau