Bracken County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bracken County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bracken County spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 277 hours, about 11.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 60% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 12.5 minutes.

Bracken County holds about 0.2% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bracken County would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,434 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)
Bracken County	33.2 min	66.5 min	277 hrs/yr	$8,585	298
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

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On average, it takes 33.2 minutes to get to work in Bracken County. That's 48% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Kentucky

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 3.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bracken County

• Car: 94.5%
• Worked at Home: 3.4% unusually low
• Walked: 1.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Bracken County: 3.0 times less than the Kentucky average (3.4% vs 10.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bracken County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bracken 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
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	92.3%	3.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2010	91.4%	4.2%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2011	91.6%	4.1%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2012	92.5%	5.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	92.5%	5.1%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2014	93.7%	4.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	93.1%	4.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	92.1%	5.3%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	93.0%	4.0%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	92.7%	4.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2019	92.6%	4.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2020	93.7%	3.1%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2021	94.2%	2.5%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2022	91.5%	5.5%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.3%
2023	94.5%	3.4%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.5%	3.4%	1.9%	0.2%	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 bottomed out in 2010 at 91.4%. Overall it rose from 92.3% in 2009 to 94.5% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.9% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 5.5% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 3.4%.

Commute Start Times in Bracken County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bracken County?

The bars show when commuters in Bracken 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 Bracken County7.7% Kentucky5.9%	7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bracken County4.7% Kentucky4.3%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bracken County6.9% Kentucky5.3%	6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bracken County11.4% Kentucky8.3%	11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bracken County8.4% Kentucky10.3%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bracken County13.7% Kentucky14.8%	13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bracken County14.2% Kentucky12.4%	14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bracken County4.1% Kentucky9.6%	4.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bracken County1.5% Kentucky4.5%	1.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bracken County7.8% Kentucky5.2%	7.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bracken County0.3% Kentucky2.5%	0.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bracken County1.1% Kentucky1.3%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bracken County9.2% Kentucky7.3%	9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bracken County9.0% Kentucky8.4%	9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bracken County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 19.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 40.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.5%) 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 Bracken 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 Bracken 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 Bracken 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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• Kentucky
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bracken County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bracken County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Bracken County now leave 14 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 Bracken County has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bracken County in the whole series.

How does Bracken County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bracken County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.2 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	3.4%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bracken County is 33.2 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau