Jasper County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jasper County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jasper County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 218 hours, about 9.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Jasper County holds about 0.5% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jasper County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,703 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)
Jasper County	26.2 min	52.3 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,757	719
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 26.2 minutes to get to work in Jasper County. That's 17% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 81% of counties in Indiana

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 5.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jasper County

• Car: 92.2%
• Worked at Home: 5.7%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Jasper County: 6.1 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Jasper County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jasper 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
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.7%	3.5%	2.9%	0.5%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	92.3%	3.1%	2.6%	0.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	91.8%	2.5%	3.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	92.7%	2.1%	3.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.3%	2.2%	3.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.8%	1.9%	2.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.3%	2.3%	2.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	94.2%	2.9%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.6%	3.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.7%	3.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.6%	3.7%	1.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.3%	3.6%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.2%	3.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	4.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.6%	5.0%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.2%	5.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 94.8%. Overall it rose from 91.7% in 2009 to 92.2% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jasper County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jasper County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jasper County?

The bars show when commuters in Jasper 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 Jasper County10.0% Indiana6.7%	10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jasper County7.0% Indiana4.5%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jasper County11.4% Indiana5.6%	11.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jasper County12.3% Indiana8.5%	12.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jasper County8.4% Indiana9.9%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jasper County11.5% Indiana13.8%	11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jasper County10.4% Indiana12.3%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jasper County7.9% Indiana9.6%	7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jasper County1.7% Indiana4.4%	1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jasper County4.2% Indiana5.2%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jasper County1.4% Indiana2.5%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jasper County0.9% Indiana1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jasper County5.7% Indiana7.5%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jasper County7.2% Indiana8.0%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jasper County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 12.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.5% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 28.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 38.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.4%) 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 Jasper 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 Jasper 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 Jasper 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.

• Jasper County
• Indiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Jasper County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jasper County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Jasper County now leave 36 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 Jasper County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Jasper County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jasper County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.2 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	5.7%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jasper County is 26.2 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau