Breckinridge County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Breckinridge County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Breckinridge County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 226 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Breckinridge County holds about 0.5% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Breckinridge County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,799 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)
Breckinridge County	27.1 min	54.2 min	226 hrs/yr	$6,997	397
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

Breckinridge County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.1 minutes to get to work in Breckinridge County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Breckinridge County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Breckinridge County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Breckinridge 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	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.7%	5.2%	2.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.2%	6.6%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	89.7%	6.6%	1.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	89.7%	4.9%	1.7%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	1.3%
2013	90.5%	4.6%	1.4%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2014	91.9%	3.1%	1.9%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2015	92.7%	3.2%	1.6%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	91.2%	3.9%	1.6%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	91.2%	4.4%	2.0%	1.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.6%	4.9%	2.0%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.7%	5.1%	1.3%	1.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	91.0%	4.7%	1.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	92.4%	3.3%	1.3%	2.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.1%	2.2%	1.8%	2.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	90.3%	3.8%	2.2%	1.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	91.2%	3.8%	2.3%	1.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2015 at 92.7% and lowest in 2011 at 89.7%. Overall it rose from 90.7% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Breckinridge County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.1% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 3.8% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.3% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Breckinridge County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Breckinridge County?

The bars show when commuters in Breckinridge 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		10.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		11.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Breckinridge County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 29.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 39.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Breckinridge 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 Breckinridge 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 Breckinridge 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	Breckinridge County	Kentucky	United States
2009	6:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:59 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:01 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:53 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:50 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:59 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Breckinridge County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (6:55 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Breckinridge County now leave 36 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 Breckinridge County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Breckinridge County's commute time compare?

Metric	Breckinridge County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.1 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	05:00 AM – 05:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.8%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Breckinridge County is 27.1 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Breckinridge County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Breckinridge County, KY is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 20,880 residents against a local median of 26,707. The measure that sets Breckinridge County, KY apart most is work from home: 3.8%, 43% below the local median of 6.6%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 27.1 min against a local median of 20.3 min, 33% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 33% above the local median it puts Breckinridge County, KY at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.6% on work from home, so Breckinridge County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Breckinridge County, KY has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Breckinridge County, KY	20,880	27.1 min #5/6	3.8% #5/6	7:02 AM #3/6
Meade County, KY	30,155	27.9 min	9.6%	7:10 AM
Grayson County, KY	26,707	20.3 min	6.6%	6:53 AM
Hancock County, KY	9,034	20.8 min	3.1%	7:11 AM
Perry County, IN	19,268	20.1 min	5.6%	6:50 AM
Hardin County, KY	111,942	18.3 min	9.2%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Breckinridge County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 226 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,997 at a typical national wage. That's 30% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Breckinridge County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Breckinridge County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky?

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).