Blackford County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Blackford County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blackford County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Blackford County holds about 0.2% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blackford County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,431 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)
Blackford County	23.5 min	47.0 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,077	695
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.

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On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Blackford County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blackford County

• Car: 88.2%
• Worked at Home: 10.1%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.1%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Blackford County: 4.0 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Blackford County, versus 0.6% in Indiana.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Blackford County, versus 0.1% in Indiana.

Biking is unusually rare in Blackford County: 3.2 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Blackford County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blackford 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.0%	3.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.2%	2.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.5%	2.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	2.4%	1.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.1%	2.7%	2.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	93.6%	2.4%	2.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2015	94.0%	2.1%	2.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	93.0%	2.4%	2.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%
2017	93.2%	2.3%	2.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.4%	1.4%	2.6%	0.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.1%	1.6%	3.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.6%	6.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.6%	7.4%	2.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.9%	8.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	10.8%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.2%	10.1%	1.4%	0.1%	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 was highest in 2011 at 95.5% and lowest in 2023 at 87.4%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 88.2% in 2024, down 6.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Blackford County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.0% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Blackford County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blackford County?

The bars show when commuters in Blackford 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	12:00-4:59 AM Blackford County10.1% Indiana6.7%	10.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Blackford County9.4% Indiana4.5%	9.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Blackford County6.1% Indiana5.6%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Blackford County6.8% Indiana8.5%	6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Blackford County10.9% Indiana9.9%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Blackford County9.1% Indiana13.8%	9.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Blackford County9.9% Indiana12.3%	9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Blackford County7.1% Indiana9.6%	7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Blackford County1.3% Indiana4.4%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Blackford County4.2% Indiana5.2%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Blackford County1.9% Indiana2.5%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Blackford County0.0% Indiana1.2%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Blackford County10.2% Indiana7.5%	10.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Blackford County13.0% Indiana8.0%	13.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Blackford County is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.0% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 25.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 37.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.3%) 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 Blackford 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 Blackford 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 Blackford 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Blackford County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blackford County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Blackford County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Blackford County has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Blackford County in the whole series.

How does Blackford County's commute time compare?

Metric	Blackford County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.1%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Blackford County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau