Kosciusko County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kosciusko County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kosciusko County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 147 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Kosciusko County holds about 1.2% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kosciusko County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,817 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)
Kosciusko County	17.6 min	35.2 min	147 hrs/yr	$4,543	835
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 17.6 minutes to get to work in Kosciusko County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in Indiana

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 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kosciusko County

• Car: 86.4%
• Worked at Home: 8.6%
• Walked: 2.4%
• Bicycle: 1.1%
• Other: 0.7%
• Taxi: 0.6% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Public transit is unusually rare in Kosciusko County: 5.6 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Kosciusko County: 4.4 times more than the Indiana average (0.6% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kosciusko County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kosciusko 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	91.2%	4.6%	2.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2010	91.3%	4.6%	2.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	91.4%	4.5%	2.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	91.4%	4.3%	2.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	91.7%	3.5%	2.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	91.8%	3.6%	2.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	91.8%	3.8%	2.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	92.3%	3.3%	2.3%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	92.4%	3.6%	1.7%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.6%	4.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.2%	4.2%	1.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.3%	5.2%	2.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	89.8%	6.4%	2.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	7.0%	2.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	88.0%	7.7%	2.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	86.4%	8.6%	2.4%	1.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 91.2% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kosciusko County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 6th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Kosciusko County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kosciusko County?

The bars show when commuters in Kosciusko 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 Kosciusko County12.4% Indiana6.7%	12.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kosciusko County5.8% Indiana4.5%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kosciusko County6.2% Indiana5.6%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kosciusko County6.6% Indiana8.5%	6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kosciusko County9.6% Indiana9.9%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kosciusko County12.8% Indiana13.8%	12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kosciusko County12.7% Indiana12.3%	12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kosciusko County8.0% Indiana9.6%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kosciusko County3.1% Indiana4.4%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kosciusko County4.9% Indiana5.2%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kosciusko County2.5% Indiana2.5%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kosciusko County0.8% Indiana1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kosciusko County7.2% Indiana7.5%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kosciusko County7.5% Indiana8.0%	7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kosciusko County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 24.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 43.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Kosciusko 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 Kosciusko 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 Kosciusko 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Kosciusko County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 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	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kosciusko County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Kosciusko County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Kosciusko County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kosciusko County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.6 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	8.6%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kosciusko County is 17.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau