Wabash County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Wabash 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 Wabash County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wabash County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Wabash County holds about 0.5% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wabash County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,816 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)
Wabash County	17.6 min	35.2 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,541	575
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

Wabash County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.6 minutes to get to work in Wabash County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 81% of 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 6.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wabash County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wabash County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wabash 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	91.6%	1.9%	4.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	91.3%	2.2%	4.6%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.1%	2.5%	3.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.0%	2.7%	3.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	92.2%	3.1%	3.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	2.5%	3.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	92.4%	2.7%	3.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	91.0%	2.8%	5.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	91.3%	2.8%	4.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	91.7%	2.3%	4.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	2.7%	4.4%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.4%	4.6%	3.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	4.5%	3.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	4.7%	2.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.7%	5.6%	2.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.8%	6.3%	2.6%	0.8%	0.3%	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 2014 at 92.7%. Overall it fell from 91.6% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wabash County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 6.3% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.5% to 2.6% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wabash County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wabash County?

The bars show when commuters in Wabash 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		5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wabash County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Indiana. Early starts are about as common as in Indiana: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 49.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Wabash 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 Wabash 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 Wabash 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	Wabash County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wabash County were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Wabash County now leave 8 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 Wabash County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Wabash County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wabash County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.6 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	6.3%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wabash County is 17.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 2.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wabash County, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Wabash County, IN is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 30,844 residents against a local median of 36,800. Wabash County, IN's work from home, at 6.3%, runs 19% below the 7.8% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 3.7% on work from home, so Wabash County, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Wabash County, IN has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Wabash County, IN	30,844	17.6 min #2/6	6.3% #5/6	7:29 AM #4/6
Miami County, IN	35,712	21.0 min	4.9%	7:31 AM
Huntington County, IN	36,800	18.4 min	7.1%	7:18 AM
Grant County, IN	66,295	16.3 min	7.8%	7:45 AM
Kosciusko County, IN	80,442	17.6 min	8.6%	7:22 AM
Whitley County, IN	34,611	21.3 min	8.1%	7:15 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wabash County, Indiana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,541 at a typical national wage. That's 17% less than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Wabash 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.

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).