Bourbon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bourbon County, Kentucky: 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 Bourbon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bourbon County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bourbon County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,406 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)
Bourbon County	23.3 min	46.6 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,015	545
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.

Commute Time Map: Kentucky Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Kentucky

Calloway County (13.9 min)
Owsley County (15.0 min)
Taylor County (15.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky

Owen County (37.7 min)
Spencer County (33.3 min)
Bracken County (33.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Bourbon County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.3 minutes to get to work in Bourbon County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bourbon County

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Bourbon County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.

Commute Mode Trends in Bourbon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bourbon 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	88.9%	5.9%	4.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	90.7%	3.2%	5.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	92.1%	3.3%	4.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.2%	4.5%	3.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	90.0%	6.0%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	90.7%	6.0%	2.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.2%	7.6%	1.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.0%	6.6%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.1%	6.0%	2.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.9%	5.8%	2.4%	2.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.0%	5.9%	2.5%	2.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.9%	6.3%	1.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.8%	8.1%	1.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.5%	9.7%	2.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.5%	9.6%	2.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.4%	10.7%	2.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 88.9% in 2009 to 85.4% in 2024, down 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bourbon County: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.3% to 2.1% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bourbon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bourbon County?

The bars show when commuters in Bourbon 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bourbon County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 49.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Bourbon 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 Bourbon 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 Bourbon 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bourbon County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bourbon County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). Kentucky followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bourbon County now leave 13 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 Bourbon County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Bourbon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bourbon County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.3 min	20.8 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	10.7%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bourbon County is 23.3 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bourbon County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Bourbon County, KY is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,240 residents against a local median of 28,394. The measure that sets Bourbon County, KY apart most is work from home: 10.7%, 42% above the local median of 7.6%.

The counties themselves spread 8.3% on work from home, so Bourbon County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bourbon County, KY has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bourbon County, KY	20,240	23.3 min #5/6	10.7% #3/6	7:25 AM #4/6
Nicholas County, KY	7,708	31.3 min	4.0%	7:24 AM
Clark County, KY	37,190	21.8 min	12.3%	7:28 AM
Harrison County, KY	19,140	22.8 min	5.1%	7:24 AM
Fayette County, KY	323,723	18.5 min	12.2%	7:59 AM
Montgomery County, KY	28,394	20.3 min	7.6%	7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Bourbon County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,015 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Bourbon County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 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.

Which counties in Kentucky have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Kentucky, the shortest average commutes are in Calloway County (13.9 min), Owsley County (15.0 min), Taylor County (15.3 min). The longest are in Owen County (37.7 min), Spencer County (33.3 min), Bracken County (33.2 min).