Calloway County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Calloway County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Calloway County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.8 minutes.

Calloway County holds about 0.8% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Calloway County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,441 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)
Calloway County	13.9 min	27.9 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,602	485
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.

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On average, it takes 13.9 minutes to get to work in Calloway County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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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 walking. About 6.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Calloway County

• Car: 86.8%
• Walked: 6.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.0%
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Calloway County: 4.6 times more than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Calloway County: 3.1 times more than the Kentucky average (6.1% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Calloway County: 5.0 times less than the Kentucky average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Calloway County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Calloway 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	88.3%	3.9%	6.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	88.3%	4.9%	5.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.4%	4.3%	4.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	90.6%	4.5%	3.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	90.6%	5.1%	3.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	90.6%	5.9%	1.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%
2015	89.3%	6.0%	2.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%
2016	86.5%	7.6%	3.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%
2017	86.9%	7.7%	3.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%
2018	86.9%	7.3%	4.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2019	86.6%	7.3%	4.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%
2020	87.0%	8.4%	3.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%
2021	85.1%	9.7%	4.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	86.6%	7.8%	4.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	86.1%	7.4%	5.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	86.8%	6.1%	6.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2012 at 90.6% and lowest in 2021 at 85.1%. Overall it fell from 88.3% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 1.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Calloway County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.7% to 6.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 9.7% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 6.1%.

Commute Start Times in Calloway County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Calloway County?

The bars show when commuters in Calloway 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 Calloway County4.7% Kentucky5.9%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Calloway County3.9% Kentucky4.3%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Calloway County6.3% Kentucky5.3%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Calloway County10.6% Kentucky8.3%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Calloway County12.7% Kentucky10.3%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Calloway County13.4% Kentucky14.8%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Calloway County15.1% Kentucky12.4%	15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Calloway County8.2% Kentucky9.6%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Calloway County2.0% Kentucky4.5%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Calloway County4.8% Kentucky5.2%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Calloway County2.0% Kentucky2.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Calloway County1.1% Kentucky1.3%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Calloway County6.6% Kentucky7.3%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Calloway County8.4% Kentucky8.4%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Calloway County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 15.0% 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 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Calloway 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 Calloway 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 Calloway 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	Calloway County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Calloway County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Calloway County now leave 12 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 Calloway County has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Calloway County in the whole series.

How does Calloway County's commute time compare?

Metric	Calloway County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.9 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	6.0%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	6.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Calloway County is 13.9 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 6.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau