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Commuting in Granger, 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 Granger: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Granger spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Granger holds about 0.4% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Granger would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,149 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)
Granger 20.8 min 41.6 min 173 hrs/yr $5,372 1,680
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.

Granger Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Granger. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Granger

  • Car: 85.3%
  • Worked at Home: 13.5%
  • Walked: 0.7%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Granger: 20564037.4 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Granger: 8.4 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Granger: 3.2 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Granger, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Granger 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 Other Public Transportation Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle
2009 95.5% 3.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 95.4% 3.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 94.3% 4.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 94.4% 4.0% 0.5% 0.7% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 94.2% 4.3% 0.4% 0.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 93.9% 4.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 93.5% 4.9% 0.7% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 93.3% 5.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 93.3% 5.8% 0.4% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 93.2% 5.8% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 93.5% 5.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 92.7% 6.2% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 91.2% 7.5% 0.7% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 89.8% 9.1% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 86.9% 11.8% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 85.3% 13.5% 0.7% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.5% in 2009 to 85.3% in 2024, down 10.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Granger: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 13.5% in 2024, up 10.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Granger

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Granger?

The bars show when commuters in Granger 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
3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
4.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
19.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
8.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Granger is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 9.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 57.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Granger, 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 Granger 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 Granger 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 Granger Indiana United States
2009 7:41 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:40 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:39 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:40 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:43 AM 7:34 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:42 AM 7:34 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:42 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:44 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:44 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:41 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:42 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:41 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:38 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:39 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:44 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:45 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Granger were on the road by 7:45 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Granger now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Granger has moved 3 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Granger in the whole series.

How does Granger's commute time compare?

Metric Granger Indiana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.8 min 21.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 13.5% 10.7% 15.0%
Walked 0.7% 1.9% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Granger is about the same as in Indiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Granger, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Granger, IN compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Granger, IN 29,240 20.8 min #2/2 13.5% #1/2 7:45 AM #2/2
Mishawaka, IN 44,023 18.9 min 8.1% 7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Granger, Indiana.

Is living in Granger, Indiana good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,372 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Granger, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Granger, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Granger, Indiana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Indiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.