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Crawford County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Crawford County, Indiana: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Crawford County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Crawford County spend about 67 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 280 hours, about 11.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 59% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 12.5 minutes.

Crawford 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 Crawford County would save about 112 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,471 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)
Crawford County 33.6 min 67.2 min 280 hrs/yr $8,678 394
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
  1. Knox County (15.8 min)
  2. Howard County (15.9 min)
  3. Daviess County (16.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Indiana
  1. Crawford County (33.6 min)
  2. Brown County (32.6 min)
  3. Franklin County (31.9 min)

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Crawford County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 33.6 minutes to get to work in Crawford County. That's 50% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Indiana

The most common departure window is 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Crawford County

  • Car: 90.1%
  • Worked at Home: 8.2%
  • Walked: 1.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
  • Other: 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Crawford County: 3.8 times less than the Indiana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Crawford County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Crawford 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Other Taxi Motorcycle
2009 93.3% 3.6% 0.8% 0.0% 1.2% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 93.8% 3.4% 1.1% 0.0% 1.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 93.8% 2.6% 1.5% 0.1% 1.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 93.0% 3.1% 1.4% 0.1% 0.9% 1.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 93.4% 3.8% 1.4% 0.2% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 95.1% 1.8% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.3%
2015 94.5% 2.8% 1.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.3%
2016 95.5% 2.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 95.0% 2.6% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.5% 2.8% 1.0% 0.0% 0.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 92.9% 3.9% 1.2% 0.0% 0.5% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 94.2% 3.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.2% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 94.3% 3.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 92.2% 5.2% 1.5% 0.0% 0.2% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 90.0% 7.6% 1.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.1% 8.2% 1.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 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 95.5% and lowest in 2023 at 90.0%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 90.1% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Crawford County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Crawford County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Indiana's 92 counties: the typical start is 39 minutes earlier than in 2009.
  • Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among Indiana's 92 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:44 AM.
  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 3rd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Indiana's 92 counties: only 34.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crawford County?

The bars show when commuters in Crawford 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
12.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
14.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
13.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Crawford County is 5:30-5:59 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.6% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 32.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 34.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Crawford County Indiana United States
2009 7:23 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:20 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:14 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:13 AM 7:34 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:03 AM 7:34 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:05 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:05 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:07 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:05 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:53 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:56 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:48 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:50 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:44 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Crawford County were on the road by 6:44 AM, 39 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Crawford County now leave 54 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 Crawford County has moved 21 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Crawford County in the whole series.

How does Crawford County's commute time compare?

Metric Crawford County Indiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 33.6 min 21.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 8.2% 10.7% 15.0%
Walked 1.1% 1.9% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.2% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Crawford County is 33.6 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Crawford County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Crawford County, IN is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,499 residents against a local median of 30,155. The measure that sets Crawford County, IN apart most is one-way commute: 33.6 min, 66% above the local median of 20.2 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 8.2% against a local median of 6.1%, 35% above it. The counties themselves spread 14.1 min on one-way commute, so Crawford County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Crawford County, IN has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Crawford County, IN 10,499 33.6 min #6/6 8.2% #3/6 6:44 AM #1/6
Orange County, IN 19,767 20.2 min 6.1% 7:09 AM
Perry County, IN 19,268 20.1 min 5.6% 6:50 AM
Harrison County, IN 39,866 30.8 min 9.1% 7:23 AM
Meade County, KY 30,155 27.9 min 9.6% 7:10 AM
Dubois County, IN 43,614 16.7 min 5.6% 7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Crawford County, Indiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 280 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,678 at a typical national wage. That's 59% more than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM in Crawford County, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Crawford County, Indiana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Indiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Indiana?

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).