Warren County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Warren County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Warren County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 193 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Warren County holds about 0.1% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Warren County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,389 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)
Warren County	23.1 min	46.2 min	193 hrs/yr	$5,973	631
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

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On average, it takes 23.1 minutes to get to work in Warren County. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Warren County

• Car: 91.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Warren County: 26.3 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Warren County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Warren 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
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.7%	4.7%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.8%	6.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	92.2%	5.5%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	4.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	95.5%	2.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	95.6%	2.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	3.3%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.8%	3.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	96.0%	2.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.2%	2.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.0%	2.7%	2.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	94.4%	3.2%	1.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	92.7%	4.6%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	92.0%	4.6%	2.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	91.6%	6.2%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	6.4%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2017 at 96.0% and lowest in 2023 at 91.6%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Warren County: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Warren County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Warren County?

The bars show when commuters in Warren 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 Warren County11.1% Indiana6.7%	11.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Warren County3.9% Indiana4.5%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Warren County6.8% Indiana5.6%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Warren County11.6% Indiana8.5%	11.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Warren County11.8% Indiana9.9%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Warren County16.1% Indiana13.8%	16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Warren County14.1% Indiana12.3%	14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Warren County5.2% Indiana9.6%	5.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Warren County1.3% Indiana4.4%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Warren County3.8% Indiana5.2%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Warren County1.5% Indiana2.5%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Warren County0.4% Indiana1.2%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Warren County5.3% Indiana7.5%	5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Warren County7.0% Indiana8.0%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Warren County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 21.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Indiana's: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Warren 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 Warren 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 Warren 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.

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• Indiana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Warren County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Warren County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Warren County now leave 29 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 Warren County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Warren County's commute time compare?

Metric	Warren County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.4%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Warren County is 23.1 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

0.0% 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