Bartholomew County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Bartholomew County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bartholomew County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 147 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Bartholomew County holds about 1.2% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bartholomew County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,822 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)
Bartholomew County	17.6 min	35.3 min	147 hrs/yr	$4,556	1,683
Indiana	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,455	1,308
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: Indiana Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Indiana

Knox County (15.8 min)
Howard County (15.9 min)
Daviess County (16.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Indiana

Crawford County (33.6 min)
Brown County (32.6 min)
Franklin County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Bartholomew County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.6 minutes to get to work in Bartholomew County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% of counties in Indiana

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 13.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bartholomew County

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Bartholomew County: 7.6 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bartholomew County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bartholomew 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	93.4%	2.9%	0.9%	0.4%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	93.3%	3.0%	1.2%	0.4%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	93.4%	3.1%	1.3%	0.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	92.7%	3.2%	1.6%	0.5%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	93.7%	2.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	2.3%	1.8%	0.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	2.2%	1.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	2.4%	1.6%	0.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	2.7%	1.3%	0.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.4%	3.5%	1.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	3.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.4%	6.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	87.7%	9.8%	1.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.6%	10.8%	1.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.5%	11.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.5%	13.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	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 2015 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 83.5% in 2024, down 9.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bartholomew County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 13.8% in 2024, up 10.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Bartholomew County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bartholomew County?

The bars show when commuters in Bartholomew 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 Indiana for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.2%

Bartholomew County Indiana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bartholomew County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 49.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Bartholomew 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 Bartholomew 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 Bartholomew County next to Indiana 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	Bartholomew County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bartholomew County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bartholomew County now leave 2 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 Bartholomew County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Bartholomew County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bartholomew County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.6 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	13.8%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bartholomew County is 17.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Indiana. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bartholomew County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Bartholomew County, IN is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 83,536 residents against a local median of 45,265. Where Bartholomew County, IN breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 53% above the local median of 9.0% at 13.8%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.6 min against a local median of 22.9 min, 23% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 23% below the local median it puts Bartholomew County, IN at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 9.7% on work from home, so Bartholomew County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bartholomew County, IN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bartholomew County, IN	83,536	17.6 min #1/6	13.8% #2/6	7:40 AM #6/6
Brown County, IN	15,606	32.6 min	13.6%	7:24 AM
Jackson County, IN	46,660	18.6 min	4.5%	7:22 AM
Shelby County, IN	45,265	21.3 min	9.0%	7:17 AM
Jennings County, IN	27,562	22.9 min	4.9%	7:01 AM
Johnson County, IN	166,315	23.5 min	14.2%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Bartholomew County, Indiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 147 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,556 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bartholomew County, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Bartholomew County, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Indiana have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Indiana, the shortest average commutes are in Knox County (15.8 min), Howard County (15.9 min), Daviess County (16.3 min). The longest are in Crawford County (33.6 min), Brown County (32.6 min), Franklin County (31.9 min).