Starke County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Starke County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Starke County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Starke County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,619 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)
Starke County	25.3 min	50.7 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,548	712
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 25.3 minutes to get to work in Starke County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Starke County

• Car: 91.9%
• Worked at Home: 4.8%
• Other: 1.6%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Starke County: 3.4 times less than the Indiana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Starke County, versus 0.4% in Indiana.

Commute Mode Trends in Starke County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Starke 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.0%	2.4%	0.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.4%	2.5%	0.4%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.8%	2.5%	0.3%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	95.3%	2.3%	0.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.6%	2.7%	0.4%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.2%	3.1%	0.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.2%	2.6%	0.7%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.5%	3.5%	0.8%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.2%	3.5%	0.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.9%	3.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	95.5%	2.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.0%	2.6%	2.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.3%	2.0%	2.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.6%	2.7%	2.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	3.3%	2.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	4.8%	1.6%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2019 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 95.0% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 3.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Starke County: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Starke County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Starke County?

The bars show when commuters in Starke 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 Starke County15.1% Indiana6.7%	15.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Starke County9.0% Indiana4.5%	9.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Starke County5.0% Indiana5.6%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Starke County12.4% Indiana8.5%	12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Starke County8.9% Indiana9.9%	8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Starke County11.0% Indiana13.8%	11.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Starke County10.9% Indiana12.3%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Starke County3.8% Indiana9.6%	3.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Starke County2.8% Indiana4.4%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Starke County2.5% Indiana5.2%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Starke County3.1% Indiana2.5%	3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Starke County1.3% Indiana1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Starke County9.4% Indiana7.5%	9.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Starke County4.8% Indiana8.0%	4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Starke County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 6.7% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 29.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 34.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Starke 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 Starke 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 Starke 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.

• Starke County
• Indiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Starke County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:03 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:00 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:01 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:59 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Starke County were on the road by 6:59 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:10 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Starke County now leave 39 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 Starke County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Starke County's commute time compare?

Metric	Starke County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.8%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Starke County is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau