Tipton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Tipton County, 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 Tipton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tipton 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 212 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 4.3 minutes.

Tipton County holds about 0.2% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tipton County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,624 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)
Tipton County	25.4 min	50.8 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,561	1,254
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

Tipton County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Tipton County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% of counties in Indiana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tipton County

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

Biking is unusually common in Tipton County: 3.4 times more than the Indiana average (1.3% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Tipton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tipton 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.8%	6.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	91.5%	6.3%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	90.7%	6.4%	2.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	92.2%	4.8%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	93.1%	3.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2014	93.2%	3.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	94.1%	3.1%	1.1%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	94.5%	2.3%	0.9%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	93.8%	2.7%	1.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	95.0%	2.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.4%	2.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.2%	2.8%	1.2%	1.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.0%	3.2%	1.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.4%	4.1%	2.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	7.1%	2.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.0%	8.2%	1.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	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 95.4%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 88.0% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tipton County: its share of workers rose from 6.0% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.7% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Tipton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tipton County?

The bars show when commuters in Tipton 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tipton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are about as common as in Indiana: 17.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 45.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.1%) 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 Tipton 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 Tipton 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 Tipton 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	Tipton County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tipton County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Tipton County now leave 16 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 Tipton County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Tipton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Tipton County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.2%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tipton County is 25.4 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Tipton County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Tipton County, IN is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,346 residents against a local median of 83,752. Tipton County, IN's one-way commute, at 25.4 min, runs 19% above the 21.4 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 7.6 min on one-way commute, so Tipton County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Tipton 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
Tipton County, IN	15,346	25.4 min #6/6	8.2% #3/6	7:22 AM #1/6
Howard County, IN	83,752	15.9 min	6.0%	7:55 AM
Hamilton County, IN	365,056	23.5 min	23.3%	7:47 AM
Madison County, IN	131,900	22.5 min	10.4%	7:30 AM
Clinton County, IN	32,944	21.4 min	6.0%	7:27 AM
Grant County, IN	66,295	16.3 min	7.8%	7:45 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Tipton County, Indiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 212 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,561 at a typical national wage. That's 20% more than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Tipton County, Indiana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).