Smyrna Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Smyrna, Tennessee: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Smyrna: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Smyrna spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Smyrna holds about 0.7% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Smyrna would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,382 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)
Smyrna	23.0 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,954	3,636
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.

Smyrna Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Smyrna. That's 3% 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 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Smyrna

Biking is essentially absent in Smyrna, versus 0.1% in Tennessee.

Commute Mode Trends in Smyrna, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Smyrna 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.0%	2.3%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	96.1%	2.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	96.8%	1.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2012	96.5%	2.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	96.7%	2.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	96.7%	2.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	95.9%	2.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	95.4%	3.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.3%	3.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	3.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	3.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.3%	4.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.7%	7.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.5%	9.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	11.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.8%	13.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 96.8%. Overall it fell from 96.0% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 11.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Smyrna: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 11.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Smyrna

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Smyrna?

The bars show when commuters in Smyrna 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		6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Smyrna is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 40.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Smyrna, 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 Smyrna 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 Smyrna 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Smyrna	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Smyrna were on the road by 7:19 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Smyrna now leave 19 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 Smyrna has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Smyrna in the whole series.

How does Smyrna's commute time compare?

Metric	Smyrna	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	13.4%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Smyrna is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Smyrna, TN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Smyrna, TN compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Smyrna, TN	46,130	23.0 min #2/3	13.4% #2/3	7:18 AM #2/3
La Vergne, TN	39,679	31.1 min	12.9%	7:02 AM
Murfreesboro, TN	123,992	21.1 min	15.6%	7:35 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Smyrna, Tennessee.

Is living in Smyrna, Tennessee good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,954 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Smyrna, Tennessee?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Smyrna, Tennessee. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.