Richmond Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Richmond, 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 Richmond: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Richmond spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Richmond holds about 0.4% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Richmond would save about 47 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,442 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)
Richmond	14.0 min	27.9 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,605	2,269
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.

Richmond Commute Map

On average, it takes 14.0 minutes to get to work in Richmond. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 4.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Richmond

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

Biking is essentially absent in Richmond, versus 0.4% in Indiana.

Commute Mode Trends in Richmond, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Richmond 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.5%	4.7%	1.6%	1.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	90.1%	4.9%	1.9%	1.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	90.8%	4.6%	2.3%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2012	91.2%	3.5%	2.3%	0.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2013	92.2%	3.1%	2.1%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2014	90.9%	3.7%	2.2%	0.8%	1.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%
2015	90.6%	3.7%	2.1%	0.7%	2.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%
2016	89.5%	4.2%	2.2%	0.7%	1.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.2%
2017	87.6%	4.8%	2.6%	0.7%	2.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%
2018	86.6%	5.4%	2.9%	0.2%	3.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%
2019	87.3%	4.9%	2.9%	0.6%	3.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%
2020	86.7%	5.9%	3.4%	0.8%	2.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2021	86.8%	5.8%	3.7%	0.9%	2.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	88.2%	5.5%	4.1%	0.6%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	90.3%	4.6%	4.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.0%	4.8%	4.5%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2013 at 92.2% and lowest in 2018 at 86.6%. Overall it fell from 90.5% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Richmond: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 4.5% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 5.9% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 4.8%.

Commute Start Times in Richmond

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Richmond?

The bars show when commuters in Richmond 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Richmond is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 13.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 44.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.2%) 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 Richmond, 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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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	Richmond	Indiana	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:52 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:53 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Richmond were on the road by 7:54 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:49 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Richmond now leave 16 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 Richmond has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Richmond's commute time compare?

Metric	Richmond	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	14.0 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.5%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Richmond is 14.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Richmond, Indiana.

Is living in Richmond, Indiana good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 116 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,605 at a typical national wage. That's 34% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Richmond, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Richmond, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.