Trousdale County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Trousdale County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Trousdale County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 270 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 10.0 minutes.

Trousdale County holds about 0.2% of Tennessee's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Trousdale County would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,349 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)
Trousdale County	32.4 min	64.8 min	270 hrs/yr	$8,373	1,129
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 32.4 minutes to get to work in Trousdale County. That's 45% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% of 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 5.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Trousdale County

• Car: 94.0%
• Worked at Home: 5.7%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• 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 Trousdale County, versus 0.0% in Tennessee.

Walking is unusually rare in Trousdale County: 4.1 times less than the Tennessee average (0.3% vs 1.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Trousdale County: 21.5 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Trousdale County: just 0.3%, 4.5 times below the Tennessee average of 1.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Trousdale County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Trousdale 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.6%	2.9%	1.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.5%	3.0%	1.5%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	3.0%	1.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	93.9%	3.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	94.9%	3.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	97.2%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	97.4%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	4.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.0%	4.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.8%	4.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	4.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	5.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.8%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.2%	4.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.2%	4.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	5.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2015 at 97.4% and lowest in 2010 at 93.5%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.6% in 2009 and 94.0% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Trousdale County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Trousdale County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Trousdale County?

The bars show when commuters in Trousdale 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 Trousdale County9.1% Tennessee5.8%	9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Trousdale County8.9% Tennessee4.4%	8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Trousdale County4.7% Tennessee5.5%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Trousdale County14.3% Tennessee9.9%	14.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Trousdale County15.9% Tennessee10.1%	15.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Trousdale County18.6% Tennessee14.7%	18.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Trousdale County5.6% Tennessee11.5%	5.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Trousdale County2.5% Tennessee10.1%	2.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Trousdale County1.1% Tennessee4.5%	1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Trousdale County4.8% Tennessee5.7%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Trousdale County1.0% Tennessee2.5%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Trousdale County0.0% Tennessee1.2%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Trousdale County2.9% Tennessee6.8%	2.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Trousdale County10.6% Tennessee7.4%	10.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Trousdale County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 22.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 42.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) 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 Trousdale 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 Trousdale 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 Trousdale 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Trousdale County	Tennessee	United States
2009	6:57 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:03 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:04 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:59 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:56 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:57 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:58 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:55 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Trousdale County were on the road by 6:55 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:57 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Trousdale County now leave 43 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 Trousdale County has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Trousdale County in the whole series.

How does Trousdale County's commute time compare?

Metric	Trousdale County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.4 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	5.7%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Trousdale County is 32.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau