Highland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Highland, 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 Highland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Highland spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Highland holds about 0.3% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Highland would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,161 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)
Highland	20.9 min	41.8 min	174 hrs/yr	$5,402	3,939
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.

Highland Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in Highland. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Highland

Walking is unusually rare in Highland: 6.5 times less than the Indiana average (0.3% vs 1.9%).

Public transit is unusually common in Highland: 4.4 times more than the Indiana average (2.8% vs 0.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Highland: 3.8 times more than the Indiana average (0.6% vs 0.1%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Highland: just 0.6%, 4.0 times below the Indiana average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Highland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Highland 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Walked	Motorcycle
2009	92.8%	1.6%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.3%	0.1%
2010	93.7%	1.8%	3.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%
2011	94.0%	2.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%
2012	94.7%	2.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%
2013	94.5%	1.7%	2.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	1.0%	0.1%
2014	93.4%	2.8%	2.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2015	93.3%	2.5%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2016	92.9%	2.6%	3.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2017	92.3%	3.1%	3.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%
2018	91.6%	3.6%	2.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%
2019	92.1%	2.7%	2.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%
2020	92.8%	2.6%	2.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%
2021	90.6%	3.8%	2.3%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%
2022	91.1%	4.1%	1.9%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2023	87.9%	6.9%	2.5%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	86.3%	8.5%	2.8%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 86.3% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Highland: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 8.5% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 2.8% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Highland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Highland?

The bars show when commuters in Highland 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		7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Highland is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.5% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 19.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 42.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Highland, 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 Highland 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 Highland 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	Highland	Indiana	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Highland were on the road by 7:16 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Highland now leave 22 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 Highland has moved 14 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Highland in the whole series.

How does Highland's commute time compare?

Metric	Highland	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.9 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	8.5%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.8%	0.6%	3.2%

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

2.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Indiana. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Highland, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Highland, IN is typical in size for this group, 23,705 residents against a local median of 27,098, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Highland, IN's work from home, at 8.5%, runs 28% below the 11.9% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 6.1% on work from home, so Highland, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Highland, IN has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Highland, IN	23,705	20.9 min #1/4	8.5% #3/4	7:16 AM #1/4
Munster, IN	23,727	23.8 min	13.0%	7:32 AM
Schererville, IN	27,098	27.2 min	11.9%	7:25 AM
Hammond, IN	76,072	22.3 min	6.9%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Highland, Indiana.

Is commuting expensive in Highland, Indiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 174 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,402 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Highland, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Highland, 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Highland, Indiana?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 2.8% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Indiana, making it a realistic option for many workers.