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Williamson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Williamson County, 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 Williamson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Williamson County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% more time on the road than the Tennessee average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Williamson County holds about 3.7% of Tennessee's population but accounts for roughly 4.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Williamson County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,688 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)
Williamson County 26.0 min 52.0 min 217 hrs/yr $6,721 2,142
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.

Commute Time Map: Tennessee Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Tennessee
  1. Dyer County (15.9 min)
  2. Henry County (16.7 min)
  3. Obion County (17.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Tennessee
  1. Cannon County (33.3 min)
  2. Union County (33.2 min)
  3. Fayette County (33.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Williamson County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.0 minutes to get to work in Williamson County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 28.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Williamson County

  • Car: 70.0%
  • Worked at Home: 28.3%
  • Other: 1.0%
  • Walked: 0.5%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Williamson County: 7.7 times less than the Tennessee average (0.0% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Williamson County: 5.7 times less than the Tennessee average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Williamson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Williamson 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.

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 90.3% 7.4% 0.8% 0.9% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2010 90.0% 7.9% 0.9% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2011 89.7% 8.3% 0.8% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2012 89.8% 8.2% 0.8% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2013 89.5% 8.3% 0.9% 0.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2014 89.2% 8.6% 0.9% 0.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2015 88.5% 9.0% 1.0% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2016 88.5% 8.8% 1.2% 1.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2017 88.4% 9.0% 1.1% 1.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 88.0% 9.7% 0.9% 0.8% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 86.9% 10.7% 1.0% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 83.3% 14.6% 1.0% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 78.9% 19.3% 0.9% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 75.6% 22.5% 1.0% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 72.2% 25.8% 1.0% 0.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 70.0% 28.3% 1.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.3% in 2009 to 70.0% in 2024, down 20.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Williamson County: its share of workers rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 28.3% in 2024, up 20.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Williamson County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Tennessee's 95 counties: 54.2% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Williamson County?

The bars show when commuters in Williamson 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
2.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
14.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Williamson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.7% across Tennessee. Early starts are less common than in Tennessee: 9.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Tennessee: 54.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Williamson 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 Williamson 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 Williamson 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Williamson County Tennessee United States
2009 7:34 AM 7:30 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:33 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:34 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:35 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:37 AM 7:30 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:37 AM 7:30 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:38 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:30 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:37 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:36 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:37 AM 7:28 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:36 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:39 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:40 AM 7:29 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:41 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:42 AM 7:29 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Williamson County were on the road by 7:42 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Tennessee, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Williamson County now leave 4 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 Williamson County has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Williamson County in the whole series.

How does Williamson County's commute time compare?

Metric Williamson County Tennessee US Average
Avg. Commute Time 26.0 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 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 28.3% 12.9% 15.0%
Walked 0.5% 1.2% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Williamson County is 26.0 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Tennessee.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Tennessee. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.2% in Tennessee.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Williamson County, TN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Williamson County, TN is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 260,351 residents against a local median of 107,806. The measure that sets Williamson County, TN apart most is work from home: 28.3%, 98% above the local median of 14.3%.

The counties themselves sit within 6.6% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Williamson County, TN, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Williamson County, TN has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Williamson County, TN 260,351 26.0 min #3/6 28.3% #1/6 7:42 AM #5/6
Davidson County, TN 713,477 22.6 min 20.3% 7:45 AM
Maury County, TN 107,806 27.5 min 14.1% 7:18 AM
Cheatham County, TN 41,825 32.4 min 13.7% 7:04 AM
Marshall County, TN 36,049 28.1 min 14.3% 7:09 AM
Rutherford County, TN 357,384 23.6 min 15.0% 7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Williamson County, Tennessee.

Is commuting expensive in Williamson County, Tennessee?

Commuters here spend an estimated 217 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,721 at a typical national wage. That's 16% more than the typical Tennessee commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Williamson County, Tennessee?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Williamson County, Tennessee. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Williamson County, Tennessee?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Tennessee, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Williamson County, Tennessee a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 28.3% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Williamson County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,688 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Which counties in Tennessee have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Tennessee, the shortest average commutes are in Dyer County (15.9 min), Henry County (16.7 min), Obion County (17.1 min). The longest are in Cannon County (33.3 min), Union County (33.2 min), Fayette County (33.1 min).