The Williamson County Chamber of Commerce presented information on trends in Williamson County a few weeks ago.
One subject they touched on was transportation. Specifically, who goes where every day, and how long does it take them. The data they mined can serve as a good guideline for how officials might want to think about roads, traffic and zoning. Especially with Williamson being among the fastest growing counties in the state, and country, in terms of population and jobs.
Using data available on Census.gov, they showed that the average commute for the county’s 90,000 or so workers is almost half and hour long. However, digging deeper into the census data shows that, thankfully, commuter times don’t seem be growing with the population.
Transportation
Over 28,000 Williamson County residents commute to Davidson County daily for work, and almost 27,000 make the opposite trek, from Davidson to Williamson, for work.
The average commute time was 27.2 minutes, and four out of five people drive alone, instead of carpooling, to work.
While 51 percent of Williamson County is female, of the 92,101 workers over the age of 16, well over half are male. It breaks down as 51,503 men in the workforce and 40,598. Interestingly, men have a longer commuter on the whole than women, at 28.8 minutest to 25.3.[gap height=”20″]
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It might seem like traffic is getting worse, but despite the workforce increasing by almost 50 percent since 2002, travel time for people’s commute has not changed much. In 2002 when the workforce was 64,650 strong, the average commute took 26.2 minutes. In 2005, with a workforce of 79,776 the average commute took 25.1 minutes. And with the most recent estimate, Williamson County commutes take about 27.2 minutes, but the number of people in the workforce over the age of 16 has risen to more than 92,000.
There is also a lot of swapping between neighboring counties. About 6.4 percent of Davidson County’s workforce comes to Williamson to work; 23.6 percent of Hickman’s; 23.3 percent of Maury’s; 15.4 percent of Marshall’s; and 6.8 percent of Rutherford’s workforce all commute to work in Williamson county.
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