Harrison County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Harrison County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Harrison County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 46% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 9.6 minutes.

Harrison County holds about 0.6% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Harrison County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,179 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)
Harrison County	30.8 min	61.5 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,947	1,292
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 30.8 minutes to get to work in Harrison County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Indiana

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 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Harrison County

• Car: 89.7%
• Worked at Home: 9.1%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Harrison County: 11.6 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Harrison County: 14.0 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Harrison County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.7%	3.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	95.4%	3.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	95.1%	3.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	95.2%	3.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	94.2%	3.7%	0.4%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.9%	3.9%	0.5%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.6%	3.9%	1.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.4%	4.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	94.0%	3.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	3.3%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	95.0%	3.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	95.1%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.4%	4.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	6.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.5%	8.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.7%	9.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	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 95.7% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, down 6.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Harrison County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Harrison County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Harrison County?

The bars show when commuters in Harrison 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 Harrison County8.3% Indiana6.7%	8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Harrison County5.5% Indiana4.5%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Harrison County6.3% Indiana5.6%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Harrison County9.5% Indiana8.5%	9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Harrison County10.3% Indiana9.9%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Harrison County13.3% Indiana13.8%	13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Harrison County14.7% Indiana12.3%	14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Harrison County7.9% Indiana9.6%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Harrison County3.3% Indiana4.4%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Harrison County5.2% Indiana5.2%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Harrison County1.8% Indiana2.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Harrison County0.6% Indiana1.2%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Harrison County5.6% Indiana7.5%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Harrison County7.7% Indiana8.0%	7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Harrison County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 20.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 46.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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	Harrison County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Harrison County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Harrison County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Harrison County's commute time compare?

Metric	Harrison County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.8 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	9.1%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Harrison County is 30.8 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau