Scott County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Scott County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scott County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 176 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way.

Scott 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 Scott County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,178 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)
Scott County	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,445	825
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

Scott County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.1 minutes to get to work in Scott County. That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Scott County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Scott County: 4.0 times less than the Indiana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Scott County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scott 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	94.4%	2.0%	2.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	94.5%	1.5%	2.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	95.8%	1.3%	1.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	96.3%	1.0%	1.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	96.1%	1.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	96.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.1%	2.5%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.9%	2.9%	0.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.8%	2.9%	0.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.2%	3.5%	0.9%	1.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	2.7%	1.1%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	3.8%	2.1%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	5.9%	1.6%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.7%	6.8%	1.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.8%	7.2%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.2%	7.4%	1.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	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 96.7%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Scott County: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 7.4% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Scott County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scott County?

The bars show when commuters in Scott 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		12.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scott County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 28.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 39.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Scott 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 Scott 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 Scott 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	Scott County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scott County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 24 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Scott County now leave 26 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 Scott County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Scott County in the whole series.

How does Scott County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scott County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.1 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.4%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scott County is about the same as in Indiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Scott County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Scott County, IN is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,526 residents against a local median of 32,998. Scott County, IN's work from home, at 7.4%, runs 29% above the 5.8% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Scott County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Scott County, IN has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Scott County, IN	24,526	21.1 min #3/6	7.4% #2/6	7:12 AM #2/6
Clark County, IN	124,346	21.3 min	12.7%	7:36 AM
Jefferson County, IN	32,998	16.7 min	5.8%	7:35 AM
Jennings County, IN	27,562	22.9 min	4.9%	7:01 AM
Jackson County, IN	46,660	18.6 min	4.5%	7:22 AM
Washington County, IN	28,212	27.4 min	7.3%	7:13 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Scott County, Indiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 176 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,445 at a typical national wage.

When is rush hour worst in Scott County, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Scott County, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Indiana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).