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Commute Time Burden in Tippecanoe County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Tippecanoe County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.
Tippecanoe County holds about 2.8% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 2.1% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Tippecanoe County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,697 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)
Tippecanoe County
16.4 min
32.9 min
137 hrs/yr
$4,244
1,420
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.
On average, it takes
16.4
minutes to get to work in
Tippecanoe County.
That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Among the top 5 fastest counties in Indiana
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Tippecanoe County
Car:
79.7%
Worked at Home:
11.1%
Walked:
5.4%
Public Transportation:
2.2%unusually high
Bicycle:
0.8%
Other:
0.5%
Motorcycle:
0.1%
Taxi:
0.1%
Public transit is unusually common in Tippecanoe County: 3.5 times more than the Indiana average (2.2% vs 0.6%).
Commute Mode Trends in Tippecanoe County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Tippecanoe 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
Public Transportation
Bicycle
Other
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
85.5%
3.7%
6.3%
2.9%
0.9%
0.5%
0.0%
0.3%
2010
86.1%
3.3%
5.6%
3.4%
0.8%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
2011
85.9%
3.8%
5.6%
3.1%
0.9%
0.3%
0.0%
0.4%
2012
85.9%
3.6%
5.5%
3.1%
1.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.4%
2013
85.4%
3.4%
5.8%
3.1%
1.2%
0.6%
0.0%
0.5%
2014
85.6%
3.4%
5.7%
3.1%
1.2%
0.7%
0.0%
0.4%
2015
84.9%
3.3%
6.3%
3.0%
1.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.4%
2016
84.6%
2.9%
6.5%
3.4%
1.5%
0.8%
0.0%
0.3%
2017
84.7%
3.2%
6.7%
3.1%
1.4%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
2018
85.0%
3.0%
6.5%
3.2%
1.3%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
2019
85.0%
3.0%
6.8%
3.0%
1.3%
0.6%
0.1%
0.1%
2020
84.7%
4.8%
5.8%
2.8%
1.2%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2021
83.4%
6.8%
5.9%
2.3%
1.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.1%
2022
82.0%
8.4%
5.6%
2.5%
1.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
2023
80.2%
9.9%
6.1%
2.5%
0.9%
0.4%
0.0%
0.1%
2024
79.7%
11.1%
5.4%
2.2%
0.8%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 86.1%. Overall it fell from 85.5% in 2009 to 79.7% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Tippecanoe County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 7.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.3% to 5.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Tippecanoe County
🦉Night OwlThe 2nd-latest start among Indiana's 92 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:57 AM.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tippecanoe County?
The bars show when commuters in Tippecanoe 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 AMTippecanoe County3.6%Indiana6.7%
3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMTippecanoe County3.1%Indiana4.5%
3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMTippecanoe County4.7%Indiana5.6%
4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMTippecanoe County5.7%Indiana8.5%
5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMTippecanoe County7.7%Indiana9.9%
7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMTippecanoe County12.7%Indiana13.8%
12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMTippecanoe County13.7%Indiana12.3%
13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMTippecanoe County10.3%Indiana9.6%
10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMTippecanoe County7.2%Indiana4.4%
7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMTippecanoe County8.2%Indiana5.2%
8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMTippecanoe County3.2%Indiana2.5%
3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMTippecanoe County1.7%Indiana1.2%
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMTippecanoe County10.8%Indiana7.5%
10.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMTippecanoe County7.2%Indiana8.0%
7.2%
Tippecanoe CountyIndianaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Tippecanoe County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Indiana. Early starts are less common than in Indiana: 11.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 44.5% 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 Tippecanoe 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 Tippecanoe 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 Tippecanoe 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
Tippecanoe County
Indiana
United States
2009
7:55 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:56 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:57 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:58 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:57 AM
7:34 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:57 AM
7:34 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:58 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:59 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:58 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2018
8:01 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2019
8:01 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:59 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:58 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:56 AM
7:32 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:57 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:57 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Tippecanoe County were on the road by 7:57 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:55 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Tippecanoe County now leave 19 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 Tippecanoe County has moved 4 minutes earlier.
How does Tippecanoe County's commute time compare?
Metric
Tippecanoe County
Indiana
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
16.4 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
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
11.1%
10.7%
15.0%
Walked
5.4%
1.9%
2.4%
Public Transit
2.2%
0.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Tippecanoe County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.
2.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Indiana. 5.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.
Tippecanoe County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Tippecanoe County, IN is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 189,071 residents against a local median of 24,718. Tippecanoe County, IN's work from home, at 11.1%, runs 80% above the 6.2% typical of the counties around it.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.4 min against a local median of 21.4 min, 23% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 23% below the local median it puts Tippecanoe County, IN at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves sit within 1.7% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Tippecanoe County, IN, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Tippecanoe County, IN has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Is living in Tippecanoe County, Indiana good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,244 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Tippecanoe County, Indiana?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Tippecanoe County, Indiana?
Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 2.2% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Indiana, making it a realistic option for many 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).