Boone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Boone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boone County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Boone County holds about 1.1% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boone County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,331 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)
Boone County	22.6 min	45.1 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,828	2,064
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 22.6 minutes to get to work in Boone County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Boone County

• Car: 78.1%
• Worked at Home: 20.2%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Boone County, versus 0.1% in Indiana.

Walking is unusually rare in Boone County: 3.0 times less than the Indiana average (0.6% vs 1.9%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Boone County: 20.4 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Boone County: 3.4 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Boone County: just 0.8%, 3.1 times below the Indiana average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Boone County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Boone 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.5%	4.3%	1.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	92.6%	4.3%	1.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	92.3%	4.6%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	92.0%	4.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	92.4%	4.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	92.8%	4.8%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.1%	4.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	92.5%	5.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	92.3%	5.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	91.7%	5.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	89.7%	6.9%	1.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	85.2%	11.7%	1.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.7%	15.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	79.9%	17.2%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.1%	18.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.1%	20.2%	0.9%	0.6%	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 peaked in 2015 at 93.1%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 78.1% in 2024, down 14.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Boone County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 20.2% in 2024, up 15.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.6% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Boone County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe 2nd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Indiana's 92 counties: 55.6% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Boone County?

The bars show when commuters in Boone 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 Boone County4.0% Indiana6.7%	4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Boone County2.5% Indiana4.5%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Boone County5.7% Indiana5.6%	5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Boone County7.0% Indiana8.5%	7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Boone County10.3% Indiana9.9%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Boone County17.5% Indiana13.8%	17.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Boone County14.8% Indiana12.3%	14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Boone County13.0% Indiana9.6%	13.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Boone County4.7% Indiana4.4%	4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Boone County6.4% Indiana5.2%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Boone County2.4% Indiana2.5%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Boone County1.2% Indiana1.2%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Boone County4.2% Indiana7.5%	4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Boone County6.2% Indiana8.0%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Boone County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 12.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 55.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Boone 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 Boone 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 Boone 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	Boone County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Boone County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Boone County now leave 2 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 Boone County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Boone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Boone County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 min	21.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.2%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Boone County is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau