Anderson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Anderson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Anderson County spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 241 hours, about 10.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Anderson County holds about 0.5% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Anderson County would save about 97 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,994 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)
Anderson County	29.0 min	58.0 min	241 hrs/yr	$7,485	652
Kentucky	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,369	832
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.

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On average, it takes 29.0 minutes to get to work in Anderson County. That's 29% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 87% of counties in Kentucky

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 9.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Anderson County

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Taxi: 0.7% unusually high
• Walked: 0.7% unusually low
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Anderson County: 4.5 times more than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Anderson County: 3.0 times less than the Kentucky average (0.7% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.6% in Kentucky.

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Anderson County: 5.3 times more than the Kentucky average (0.7% vs 0.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.2% in Kentucky.

Few people walk or bike to work in Anderson County: just 0.7%, 3.3 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Anderson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Anderson 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
• Taxi
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• Public Transportation
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Taxi	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle
2009	97.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	97.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	97.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	97.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	97.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	97.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	98.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	98.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	97.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.8%	1.9%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.5%	3.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	5.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.4%	7.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.6%	8.6%	0.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.2%	9.5%	0.0%	0.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.3%	9.5%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 98.0%. Overall it fell from 97.3% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, down 9.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Anderson County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 9.5% in 2024, up 8.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Anderson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Anderson County?

The bars show when commuters in Anderson 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 Kentucky for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Anderson County5.3% Kentucky5.9%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Anderson County4.6% Kentucky4.3%	4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Anderson County4.1% Kentucky5.3%	4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Anderson County10.5% Kentucky8.3%	10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Anderson County11.3% Kentucky10.3%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Anderson County17.1% Kentucky14.8%	17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Anderson County13.9% Kentucky12.4%	13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Anderson County9.2% Kentucky9.6%	9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Anderson County3.1% Kentucky4.5%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Anderson County4.3% Kentucky5.2%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Anderson County1.2% Kentucky2.5%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Anderson County0.8% Kentucky1.3%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Anderson County5.5% Kentucky7.3%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Anderson County9.2% Kentucky8.4%	9.2%

Anderson County Kentucky Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Anderson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Anderson 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 Anderson 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 Anderson County next to Kentucky 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Anderson County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Anderson County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Anderson County now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Anderson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Anderson County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	29.0 min	20.8 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	9.5%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Anderson County is 29.0 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau