Kenai Peninsula Borough Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kenai Peninsula Borough: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kenai Peninsula Borough spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 134 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Alaska average of 16.1 minutes each way.

Kenai Peninsula Borough holds about 8.2% of Alaska's population and accounts for roughly 8.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kenai Peninsula Borough would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,662 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)
Kenai Peninsula Borough	16.1 min	32.2 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,154	681
Alaska	16.1 min	32.2 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,157	583
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: Alaska Counties

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On average, it takes 16.1 minutes to get to work in Kenai Peninsula Borough. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Alaska

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kenai Peninsula Borough

• Car: 78.2%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 5.3%
• Other: 4.8%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Kenai Peninsula Borough: 9.8 times less than the Alaska average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Kenai Peninsula Borough: 3.8 times less than the Alaska average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kenai Peninsula Borough, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kenai Peninsula Borough 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	81.1%	6.5%	5.8%	4.7%	0.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%
2010	81.7%	6.8%	5.7%	4.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	80.7%	6.8%	6.7%	3.8%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	79.6%	7.1%	6.3%	5.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	79.1%	7.2%	6.3%	5.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	78.6%	7.2%	5.8%	6.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	78.5%	6.8%	5.9%	7.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	78.3%	7.7%	5.5%	7.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	78.7%	7.4%	5.3%	6.8%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	79.1%	8.1%	5.0%	6.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	79.9%	7.5%	5.6%	5.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	80.3%	8.7%	5.4%	4.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	79.8%	8.9%	5.3%	5.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	79.1%	9.3%	5.7%	4.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	78.4%	9.4%	5.9%	5.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	78.2%	10.6%	5.3%	4.8%	0.5%	0.4%	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 2010 at 81.7%. Overall it fell from 81.1% in 2009 to 78.2% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kenai Peninsula Borough: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.8% to 5.3% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Kenai Peninsula Borough

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kenai Peninsula Borough?

The bars show when commuters in Kenai Peninsula Borough 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 Alaska for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough5.2% Alaska4.8%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough3.2% Alaska3.6%	3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough3.0% Alaska5.6%	3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough5.4% Alaska7.2%	5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough7.5% Alaska8.6%	7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough14.2% Alaska12.9%	14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough16.4% Alaska17.1%	16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough11.9% Alaska10.7%	11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough6.8% Alaska6.3%	6.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough8.2% Alaska7.1%	8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough5.8% Alaska3.4%	5.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kenai Peninsula Borough3.0% Alaska1.7%	3.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kenai Peninsula Borough3.4% Alaska5.6%	3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kenai Peninsula Borough5.9% Alaska5.3%	5.9%

Kenai Peninsula Borough Alaska Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Kenai Peninsula Borough is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Alaska. Early starts are less common than in Alaska: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Alaska's: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.4%) 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 Kenai Peninsula Borough, 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 Kenai Peninsula Borough 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 Kenai Peninsula Borough next to Alaska 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.

• Kenai Peninsula Borough
• Alaska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Kenai Peninsula Borough	Alaska	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kenai Peninsula Borough were on the road by 7:51 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Alaska, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Kenai Peninsula Borough now leave 13 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Kenai Peninsula Borough's commute time compare?

Metric	Kenai Peninsula Borough	Alaska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.1 min	16.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.6%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	5.3%	7.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kenai Peninsula Borough is about the same as in Alaska.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Alaska. 5.3% commute by walking, lower than the 7.2% in Alaska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau