Posey County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Posey County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Posey County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Posey County holds about 0.4% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Posey County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,330 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)
Posey County	22.5 min	45.1 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,825	1,124
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.

Commute Time Map: Indiana Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Indiana

Knox County (15.8 min)
Howard County (15.9 min)
Daviess County (16.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Indiana

Crawford County (33.6 min)
Brown County (32.6 min)
Franklin County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Posey County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.5 minutes to get to work in Posey County. That's 1% longer 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 6.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Posey County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Posey County: 5.2 times less than the Indiana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Posey County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Posey 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.3%	2.9%	2.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	94.7%	2.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	94.8%	2.3%	2.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	95.2%	2.5%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	95.9%	2.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	95.6%	2.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	95.4%	3.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	95.5%	2.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	94.5%	3.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	94.5%	3.2%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	93.5%	3.4%	1.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	93.9%	3.1%	2.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	5.4%	1.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	5.4%	1.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.2%	6.3%	2.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.8%	6.0%	2.1%	0.8%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2013 at 95.9% and lowest in 2023 at 90.2%. Overall it fell from 93.3% in 2009 to 90.8% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Posey County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 6.0% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 2.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Posey County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Posey County?

The bars show when commuters in Posey 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		7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Posey County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.3%) 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 Posey 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 Posey 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 Posey 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	Posey County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Posey County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Posey County now leave 29 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 Posey County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Posey County's commute time compare?

Metric	Posey County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.5 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	6.0%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Posey County is 22.5 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Posey County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Posey County, IN is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 25,116 residents against a local median of 32,996. Where Posey County, IN breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 20% above the local median of 18.8 min at 22.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 3.1 min on one-way commute, so Posey County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Posey County, IN has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Posey County, IN	25,116	22.5 min #6/6	6.0% #3/6	7:09 AM #3/6
Vanderburgh County, IN	180,116	17.1 min	6.7%	7:36 AM
White County, IL	13,619	18.8 min	5.8%	7:21 AM
Union County, KY	13,258	20.2 min	6.4%	7:07 AM
Henderson County, KY	44,257	18.8 min	5.2%	7:14 AM
Gibson County, IN	32,996	17.4 min	3.6%	7:05 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Posey County, Indiana.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Posey County, Indiana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,825 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Posey County, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Posey 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Posey County, Indiana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Indiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).