Commuting in Henry County, 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 Henry County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Henry County spend about 41 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 0.4 minutes.
Henry County holds about 0.7% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Henry County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,139 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)
Henry County
20.7 min
41.4 min
173 hrs/yr
$5,348
825
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.
On average, it takes
20.7
minutes to get to work in
Henry County.
That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
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 9.3% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Henry County
Car:
87.8%
Worked at Home:
9.3%
Walked:
1.7%
Other:
0.6%
Public Transportation:
0.4%
Bicycle:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Henry County, versus 0.1% in Indiana.
Commute Mode Trends in Henry County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Henry 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.
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%
1.8%
1.4%
0.7%
0.1%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2010
95.2%
2.1%
1.4%
0.8%
0.1%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2011
95.1%
2.4%
1.2%
0.8%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2012
95.1%
2.4%
1.3%
0.7%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2013
94.5%
3.1%
1.2%
0.7%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2014
94.6%
2.6%
1.9%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
94.4%
3.0%
1.7%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
93.6%
3.7%
1.5%
0.8%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2017
93.7%
3.9%
1.3%
0.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2018
93.9%
3.7%
1.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2019
94.3%
3.8%
1.0%
0.6%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.1%
2020
93.5%
4.3%
1.0%
0.6%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
92.5%
5.5%
1.2%
0.5%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
91.0%
6.4%
1.5%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2023
89.5%
8.1%
1.4%
0.3%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
87.8%
9.3%
1.7%
0.6%
0.4%
0.2%
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 87.8% in 2024, down 7.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Henry County: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 9.3% in 2024, up 7.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Commute Start Times in Henry County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henry County?
The bars show when commuters in Henry 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 AMHenry County6.2%Indiana6.7%
6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMHenry County5.8%Indiana4.5%
5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMHenry County5.5%Indiana5.6%
5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMHenry County8.4%Indiana8.5%
8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMHenry County9.3%Indiana9.9%
9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMHenry County15.3%Indiana13.8%
15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMHenry County14.6%Indiana12.3%
14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMHenry County8.0%Indiana9.6%
8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMHenry County2.6%Indiana4.4%
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMHenry County4.3%Indiana5.2%
4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMHenry County3.4%Indiana2.5%
3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMHenry County0.7%Indiana1.2%
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMHenry County7.3%Indiana7.5%
7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMHenry County8.6%Indiana8.0%
8.6%
Henry CountyIndianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Henry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are about as common as in Indiana: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Henry 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 Henry 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 Henry 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Henry County
Indiana
United States
2009
7:30 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:26 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:29 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:26 AM
7:34 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:30 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:25 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:26 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:27 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:24 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:28 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:28 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:32 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:33 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:29 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Henry County were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Henry County now leave 9 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 Henry County has moved 5 minutes later.
How does Henry County's commute time compare?
Metric
Henry County
Indiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.7 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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
9.3%
10.7%
15.0%
Walked
1.7%
1.9%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.4%
0.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Henry County is about the same as in Indiana.
0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.
Henry County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Henry County, IN is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 48,970 residents against a local median of 66,397. Where Henry County, IN breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 35% above the local median of 6.9% at 9.3%.
The counties themselves spread 11.1% on work from home, so Henry County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Henry County, IN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Henry County, Indiana.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Henry County, Indiana?
Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,348 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Henry County, Indiana?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Henry County, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Indiana?
Among counties in Indiana, the shortest average commutes are in Knox County (15.8 min), Howard County (15.9 min), Daviess County (16.3 min). The longest are in Crawford County (33.6 min), Brown County (32.6 min), Franklin County (31.9 min).