Brown County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brown County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brown County spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 272 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 55% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 11.5 minutes.

Brown County holds about 0.2% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brown County would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,373 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)
Brown County	32.6 min	65.3 min	272 hrs/yr	$8,432	1,577
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

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On average, it takes 32.6 minutes to get to work in Brown County. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brown County

• Car: 84.4%
• Worked at Home: 13.6%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Brown County: 48.5 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Brown County, versus 0.4% in Indiana.

Commute Mode Trends in Brown County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brown 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
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.2%	5.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.8%	5.0%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	4.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	4.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.9%	4.9%	1.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.3%	4.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	3.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.6%	3.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	4.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.4%	5.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.1%	5.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.0%	7.6%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.5%	8.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.7%	9.5%	1.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.2%	13.2%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.4%	13.6%	1.6%	0.3%	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 2016 at 94.6% and lowest in 2023 at 84.2%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 84.4% in 2024, down 7.8 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brown County: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 13.6% in 2024, up 8.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Brown County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brown County?

The bars show when commuters in Brown 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 Brown County5.5% Indiana6.7%	5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Brown County4.6% Indiana4.5%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Brown County4.7% Indiana5.6%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Brown County14.3% Indiana8.5%	14.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Brown County12.1% Indiana9.9%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Brown County11.2% Indiana13.8%	11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Brown County10.3% Indiana12.3%	10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Brown County6.1% Indiana9.6%	6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Brown County3.0% Indiana4.4%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Brown County5.0% Indiana5.2%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Brown County4.7% Indiana2.5%	4.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Brown County4.6% Indiana1.2%	4.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Brown County8.9% Indiana7.5%	8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Brown County5.0% Indiana8.0%	5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brown County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.5% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 14.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 39.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.3%) 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 Brown 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 Brown 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 Brown 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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• Indiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Brown County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brown County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:14 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Brown County now leave 14 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 Brown County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Brown County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brown County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.6 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	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	13.6%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brown County is 32.6 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau