Gibson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gibson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gibson County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

Gibson 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 Gibson County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,793 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)
Gibson County	17.4 min	34.7 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,482	565
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 17.4 minutes to get to work in Gibson County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gibson County

• Car: 91.9%
• Worked at Home: 3.6%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gibson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gibson 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
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	94.1%	2.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.5%	2.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	94.0%	2.7%	2.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.8%	3.1%	2.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.1%	3.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.0%	2.5%	2.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.3%	2.7%	2.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.6%	2.6%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	2.3%	2.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	2.0%	2.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	94.8%	2.1%	2.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.3%	2.7%	2.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.8%	3.3%	2.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.3%	3.7%	2.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	91.6%	4.1%	2.5%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	3.6%	2.3%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 94.8% and lowest in 2023 at 91.6%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gibson County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 3.6% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Gibson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gibson County?

The bars show when commuters in Gibson 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 Gibson County6.0% Indiana6.7%	6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gibson County6.2% Indiana4.5%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gibson County14.0% Indiana5.6%	14.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gibson County11.2% Indiana8.5%	11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gibson County11.0% Indiana9.9%	11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gibson County10.8% Indiana13.8%	10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gibson County9.3% Indiana12.3%	9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gibson County5.0% Indiana9.6%	5.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gibson County1.3% Indiana4.4%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gibson County1.7% Indiana5.2%	1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gibson County2.0% Indiana2.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gibson County1.1% Indiana1.2%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gibson County5.6% Indiana7.5%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gibson County15.0% Indiana8.0%	15.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gibson County is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.0% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 26.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 36.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.3%) 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 Gibson 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 Gibson 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 Gibson 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	Gibson County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:10 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gibson County were on the road by 7:05 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Gibson County now leave 33 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Gibson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gibson County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.4 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.6%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gibson County is 17.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau