Boone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Boone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boone 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 181 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 5% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Boone County holds about 3.1% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 3.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boone County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,247 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)
Boone County	21.7 min	43.5 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,618	2,491
Kentucky	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,361	832
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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: Kentucky Counties

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On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Boone County. That's 3% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 11.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 85.9%
• Worked at Home: 11.6%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Walked commuting is unusually low in Boone County: 6.1 times less than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Boone County: 4.6 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Boone County: just 0.4%, 6.0 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

How does Boone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Boone County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 min	20.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.6%	9.1%	13.4%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Boone County is 21.7 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Kentucky. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau