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Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Carroll County, Kentucky: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Carroll County holds about 0.2% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carroll County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,927 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)
Carroll County 18.6 min 37.3 min 155 hrs/yr $4,817 532
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
  1. Calloway County (13.9 min)
  2. Owsley County (15.0 min)
  3. Taylor County (15.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky
  1. Owen County (37.7 min)
  2. Spencer County (33.3 min)
  3. Bracken County (33.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Carroll County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% 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 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carroll County

  • Car: 90.0%
  • Worked at Home: 4.8%
  • Other: 3.1%
  • Walked: 1.7%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Carroll County: 4.7 times more than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Carroll County, versus 0.6% in Kentucky.

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

Biking is unusually rare in Carroll County: 4.0 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Carroll County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carroll 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 Other Walked Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 90.1% 1.5% 2.0% 3.6% 0.2% 0.1% 1.2% 1.4%
2010 92.0% 1.3% 1.8% 1.8% 0.0% 0.1% 1.7% 1.3%
2011 93.5% 1.5% 1.4% 1.8% 0.0% 0.1% 1.5% 0.3%
2012 93.5% 1.8% 1.2% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6% 0.3%
2013 94.7% 2.3% 1.0% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 96.5% 1.7% 0.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.6% 2.0% 0.4% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 94.8% 2.5% 0.4% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 93.3% 3.1% 0.8% 2.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 94.7% 2.4% 0.8% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 92.8% 2.0% 1.3% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 91.6% 4.1% 0.8% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 91.4% 3.1% 2.3% 3.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.0% 3.6% 4.5% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.4% 4.9% 4.6% 1.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.0% 4.8% 3.1% 1.7% 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 2014 at 96.5% and lowest in 2023 at 88.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.1% in 2009 and 90.0% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carroll County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Carroll County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe biggest shift to earlier mornings among Kentucky's 120 counties: the typical start is 31 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carroll County?

The bars show when commuters in Carroll 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
15.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
16.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
4.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
0.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carroll County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 28.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 37.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.5%) 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll County Kentucky United States
2009 7:32 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:30 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:30 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:32 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:22 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:18 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:13 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:13 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:04 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:06 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:18 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:07 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:10 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:12 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:08 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:01 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carroll County were on the road by 7:01 AM, 31 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Carroll County now leave 37 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 Carroll County has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Carroll County in the whole series.

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric Carroll County Kentucky US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.6 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 4.8% 10.2% 15.0%
Walked 1.7% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Carroll County is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Carroll County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Carroll County, KY is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,949 residents against a local median of 8,769. Where Carroll County, KY breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 39% below the local median of 30.5 min at 18.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 4.8% against a local median of 5.9%, 19% below it. The counties themselves spread 8.9 min on one-way commute, so Carroll County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Carroll County, KY has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Carroll County, KY 10,949 18.6 min #1/6 4.8% #4/6 7:01 AM #3/6
Switzerland County, IN 9,908 31.5 min 5.9% 6:57 AM
Henry County, KY 15,856 28.2 min 8.7% 7:13 AM
Trimble County, KY 8,550 22.6 min 4.1% 7:17 AM
Gallatin County, KY 8,769 30.5 min 4.5% 7:09 AM
Ohio County, IN 5,998 30.5 min 9.3% 6:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Carroll County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Carroll County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,817 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Carroll County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Carroll County, Kentucky?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Kentucky, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).