Dubois County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dubois County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dubois 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 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Dubois County holds about 0.6% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dubois County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,725 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)
Dubois County	16.7 min	33.4 min	139 hrs/yr	$4,312	1,217
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 16.7 minutes to get to work in Dubois County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% of counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 Dubois County

• Car: 91.8%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Dubois County: 3.2 times less than the Indiana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Dubois County: 5.5 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Dubois County: 5.0 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Dubois County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.9%	3.2%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	3.8%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.8%	3.6%	1.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.4%	3.8%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.1%	4.0%	2.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	4.1%	1.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.8%	3.7%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.8%	4.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.8%	4.3%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.3%	4.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	3.9%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	95.8%	3.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	95.0%	3.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	94.1%	3.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.7%	4.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.8%	5.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 95.8%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dubois County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.6% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Dubois County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dubois County?

The bars show when commuters in Dubois 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 Dubois County4.5% Indiana6.7%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dubois County5.6% Indiana4.5%	5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dubois County8.2% Indiana5.6%	8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dubois County12.4% Indiana8.5%	12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dubois County12.8% Indiana9.9%	12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dubois County16.0% Indiana13.8%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dubois County11.7% Indiana12.3%	11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dubois County6.7% Indiana9.6%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dubois County2.1% Indiana4.4%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dubois County4.8% Indiana5.2%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dubois County1.1% Indiana2.5%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dubois County0.6% Indiana1.2%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dubois County5.1% Indiana7.5%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dubois County8.4% Indiana8.0%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dubois County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 18.3% 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 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Dubois 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 Dubois 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 Dubois 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Dubois County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:04 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dubois County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:03 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Dubois County now leave 26 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 Dubois County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Dubois County in the whole series.

How does Dubois County's commute time compare?

Metric	Dubois County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.7 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.6%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dubois County is 16.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.2% 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