Whitley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Whitley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Whitley County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Whitley County holds about 0.5% of Indiana's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Whitley County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,205 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)
Whitley County	21.3 min	42.7 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,512	1,721
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 21.3 minutes to get to work in Whitley County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Whitley County

• Car: 89.2%
• Worked at Home: 8.1%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Whitley County: 3.8 times less than the Indiana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Whitley County: 16.5 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Whitley County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Whitley 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.4%	2.8%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2010	94.4%	3.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	94.6%	3.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	94.1%	3.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	94.0%	3.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	94.5%	3.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	94.5%	3.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	94.1%	3.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2017	94.9%	2.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	94.9%	3.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	93.7%	4.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2020	91.9%	6.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	91.9%	6.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	90.1%	7.5%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	7.3%	1.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.2%	8.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2017 at 94.9%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 89.2% in 2024, down 5.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Whitley County: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 8.1% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Whitley County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Whitley County?

The bars show when commuters in Whitley 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 Whitley County7.2% Indiana6.7%	7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Whitley County4.7% Indiana4.5%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Whitley County5.5% Indiana5.6%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Whitley County10.5% Indiana8.5%	10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Whitley County15.0% Indiana9.9%	15.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Whitley County14.6% Indiana13.8%	14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Whitley County12.7% Indiana12.3%	12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Whitley County6.6% Indiana9.6%	6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Whitley County2.0% Indiana4.4%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Whitley County3.4% Indiana5.2%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Whitley County1.8% Indiana2.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Whitley County0.9% Indiana1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Whitley County7.1% Indiana7.5%	7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Whitley County8.1% Indiana8.0%	8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Whitley County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.9% across Indiana. Early starts are about as common as in Indiana: 17.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Indiana: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Whitley 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 Whitley 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 Whitley 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Whitley County	Indiana	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 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	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Whitley County were on the road by 7:15 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Whitley County now leave 23 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 Whitley County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Whitley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Whitley County	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	8.1%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Whitley County is about the same as in Indiana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Indiana. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau