Lawrence Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lawrence, 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 Lawrence: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lawrence spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Lawrence holds about 0.8% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lawrence would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,451 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)
Lawrence	23.7 min	47.4 min	198 hrs/yr	$6,127	2,871
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.

Lawrence Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Lawrence. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lawrence

Walking is unusually rare in Lawrence: 3.8 times less than the Indiana average (0.5% vs 1.9%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Lawrence: just 0.7%, 3.5 times below the Indiana average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lawrence, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lawrence 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	94.1%	3.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	95.0%	3.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.4%	2.9%	0.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.0%	3.5%	0.4%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.7%	3.9%	0.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.3%	3.8%	0.5%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	93.5%	4.0%	0.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	92.9%	4.3%	0.4%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	93.7%	4.3%	0.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	4.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	4.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	6.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	90.5%	8.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.7%	10.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.2%	12.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	84.1%	13.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 95.4%. Overall it fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 10.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lawrence: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 13.9% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lawrence

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lawrence?

The bars show when commuters in Lawrence 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lawrence is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 11.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.0%) 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 Lawrence, 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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	Lawrence	Indiana	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lawrence were on the road by 7:43 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:31 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lawrence now leave 5 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lawrence has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Lawrence in the whole series.

How does Lawrence's commute time compare?

Metric	Lawrence	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.9%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lawrence is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lawrence, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Lawrence, IN compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Lawrence, IN	51,351	23.7 min #1/2	13.9% #2/2	7:43 AM #1/2
Fishers, IN	84,547	26.5 min	24.8%	7:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lawrence, Indiana.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Lawrence, Indiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,127 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Lawrence, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lawrence, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.