Warren County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Warren County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Warren County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Warren County holds about 0.6% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Warren County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,100 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)
Warren County	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,249	765
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 20.3 minutes to get to work in Warren County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 81% of counties in Tennessee

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 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Warren County

• Car: 92.0%
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Warren County: 5.1 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Warren County: 6.6 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Warren County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.4%	6.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	93.8%	4.2%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.8%	3.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	94.4%	3.1%	1.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	94.3%	3.1%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	3.2%	1.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.3%	3.3%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	4.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.4%	3.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.2%	3.9%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	3.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.5%	3.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.1%	3.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	5.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	5.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.0%	6.4%	1.0%	0.6%	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 2020 at 95.5%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 92.4% in 2009 and 92.0% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Commute Start Times in Warren County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Warren County?

The bars show when commuters in Warren 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 Warren County6.6% Tennessee5.8%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Warren County5.5% Tennessee4.4%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Warren County7.4% Tennessee5.5%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Warren County14.8% Tennessee9.9%	14.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Warren County11.3% Tennessee10.1%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Warren County14.2% Tennessee14.7%	14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Warren County11.1% Tennessee11.5%	11.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Warren County4.3% Tennessee10.1%	4.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Warren County1.9% Tennessee4.5%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Warren County2.4% Tennessee5.7%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Warren County2.5% Tennessee2.5%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Warren County1.3% Tennessee1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Warren County5.7% Tennessee6.8%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Warren County11.1% Tennessee7.4%	11.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Warren County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Tennessee. Early starts are more common than in Tennessee: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Tennessee: 40.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Warren 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 Warren 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 Warren 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.

• Warren County
• Tennessee
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Warren County	Tennessee	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:30 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:08 AM	7:28 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:29 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Warren County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Warren County now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Warren County's commute time compare?

Metric	Warren County	Tennessee	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	6.4%	12.9%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Warren County is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau