Daviess County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Daviess County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Daviess County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Daviess County holds about 0.5% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Daviess County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,681 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)
Daviess County	16.3 min	32.5 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,202	795
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 16.3 minutes to get to work in Daviess County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Indiana

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 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Daviess County

• Car: 88.1%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Walked: 3.6%
• Other: 1.4%
• Bicycle: 0.9%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Daviess County: 3.9 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Daviess County: 4.1 times less than the Indiana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Daviess County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Daviess 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
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• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.9%	2.6%	3.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	91.0%	4.5%	3.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.7%	4.6%	3.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.4%	4.7%	3.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	90.5%	4.1%	3.0%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	90.0%	4.0%	2.8%	2.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	90.6%	3.4%	3.0%	2.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	90.5%	2.7%	3.3%	1.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.7%	2.3%	2.9%	1.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.2%	2.3%	3.8%	1.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.1%	2.6%	2.8%	1.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.3%	2.9%	3.0%	1.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.2%	3.7%	3.7%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	89.3%	4.7%	3.6%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	89.3%	5.4%	3.3%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	88.1%	5.6%	3.6%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 88.1% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Daviess County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Daviess County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Daviess County?

The bars show when commuters in Daviess 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 Daviess County6.3% Indiana6.7%	6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Daviess County7.4% Indiana4.5%	7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Daviess County9.7% Indiana5.6%	9.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Daviess County11.1% Indiana8.5%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Daviess County12.0% Indiana9.9%	12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Daviess County14.8% Indiana13.8%	14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Daviess County13.3% Indiana12.3%	13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Daviess County7.2% Indiana9.6%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Daviess County2.5% Indiana4.4%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Daviess County1.9% Indiana5.2%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Daviess County0.9% Indiana2.5%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Daviess County0.8% Indiana1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Daviess County5.0% Indiana7.5%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Daviess County7.1% Indiana8.0%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Daviess County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 23.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 47.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.8%) 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 Daviess 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 Daviess 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 Daviess 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	Daviess County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Daviess County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Daviess County now leave 31 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Daviess County's commute time compare?

Metric	Daviess County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.3 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	5.6%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Daviess County is 16.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau