Bullitt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bullitt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bullitt County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 237 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 37% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.7 minutes.

Bullitt County holds about 1.9% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 2.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bullitt County would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,943 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)
Bullitt County	28.5 min	57.0 min	237 hrs/yr	$7,358	2,030
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 28.5 minutes to get to work in Bullitt County. That's 27% 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bullitt County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Other: 0.4%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bullitt County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.

Public transit is unusually rare in Bullitt County: 21.0 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Bullitt County: 3.2 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Bullitt County: 19.6 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bullitt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bullitt 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	97.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	97.0%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	96.5%	1.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	96.1%	2.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	95.7%	2.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	95.9%	2.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	95.6%	2.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	95.4%	3.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	95.2%	3.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.8%	3.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	94.4%	3.4%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	93.6%	4.4%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	92.6%	5.5%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	91.5%	7.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	89.6%	8.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	88.7%	10.0%	0.9%	0.4%	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. Overall its share fell from 97.1% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 8.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bullitt County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 10.0% in 2024, up 8.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Bullitt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bullitt County?

The bars show when commuters in Bullitt 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 Bullitt County6.6% Kentucky5.9%	6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bullitt County5.9% Kentucky4.3%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bullitt County5.4% Kentucky5.3%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bullitt County12.1% Kentucky8.3%	12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bullitt County9.9% Kentucky10.3%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bullitt County12.3% Kentucky14.8%	12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bullitt County8.7% Kentucky12.4%	8.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bullitt County9.3% Kentucky9.6%	9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bullitt County4.4% Kentucky4.5%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bullitt County3.8% Kentucky5.2%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bullitt County1.9% Kentucky2.5%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bullitt County0.9% Kentucky1.3%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bullitt County7.4% Kentucky7.3%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bullitt County11.3% Kentucky8.4%	11.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bullitt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 17.9% 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 (25.4%) 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 Bullitt 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 Bullitt 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 Bullitt 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	Bullitt County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 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	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bullitt County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Kentucky followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bullitt 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 Bullitt County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Bullitt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bullitt County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.0%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bullitt County is 28.5 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau