Carlisle County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Carlisle County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carlisle County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Carlisle County holds about 0.1% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carlisle County would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,661 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)
Carlisle County	25.8 min	51.5 min	215 hrs/yr	$6,654	347
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 25.8 minutes to get to work in Carlisle County. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carlisle County

• Car: 94.0%
• Worked at Home: 4.3%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Carlisle County: 5.8 times less than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Carlisle County: just 0.3%, 6.4 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Carlisle County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carlisle 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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• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.5%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.1%	4.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.3%	4.2%	0.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.2%	3.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	91.4%	5.7%	1.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	91.2%	5.8%	1.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.5%	5.7%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	89.4%	7.6%	2.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	5.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.1%	5.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.0%	5.9%	2.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.6%	5.1%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.2%	2.9%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.9%	5.6%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.2%	5.4%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.0%	4.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2021 at 95.2% and lowest in 2016 at 89.4%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Carlisle County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.6% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 7.6% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 4.3%.

Commute Start Times in Carlisle County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carlisle County?

The bars show when commuters in Carlisle 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 Carlisle County3.3% Kentucky5.9%	3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Carlisle County4.3% Kentucky4.3%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Carlisle County7.4% Kentucky5.3%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Carlisle County18.9% Kentucky8.3%	18.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Carlisle County14.7% Kentucky10.3%	14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Carlisle County15.3% Kentucky14.8%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Carlisle County13.5% Kentucky12.4%	13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Carlisle County9.1% Kentucky9.6%	9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Carlisle County1.9% Kentucky4.5%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Carlisle County1.5% Kentucky5.2%	1.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Carlisle County1.5% Kentucky2.5%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Carlisle County0.0% Kentucky1.3%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Carlisle County5.6% Kentucky7.3%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Carlisle County3.0% Kentucky8.4%	3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carlisle County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.5%) 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 Carlisle 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 Carlisle 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 Carlisle 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	Carlisle County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carlisle County were on the road by 7:03 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Carlisle County now leave 35 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 Carlisle County has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Carlisle County in the whole series.

How does Carlisle County's commute time compare?

Metric	Carlisle County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.8 min	20.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	4.3%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Carlisle County is 25.8 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Kentucky. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau