Casey County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Casey County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Casey County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Casey County holds about 0.4% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Casey County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,612 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)
Casey County	25.3 min	50.5 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,529	508
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 25.3 minutes to get to work in Casey County. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Casey County

• Car: 85.4%
• Worked at Home: 9.6%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Bicycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Casey County: 6.0 times more than the Kentucky average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Casey County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Casey 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	85.8%	8.6%	1.5%	1.3%	0.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.9%	9.3%	1.8%	1.6%	0.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	87.3%	7.5%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.2%	7.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.7%	7.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.9%	4.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	5.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	4.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.6%	5.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	3.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	94.6%	3.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.8%	4.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	89.9%	6.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.9%	6.3%	2.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	6.8%	3.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.4%	9.6%	2.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	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 2019 at 94.6% and lowest in 2010 at 84.9%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 85.8% in 2009 and 85.4% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Casey County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Casey County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Casey County?

The bars show when commuters in Casey 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 Casey County7.4% Kentucky5.9%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Casey County7.2% Kentucky4.3%	7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Casey County6.6% Kentucky5.3%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Casey County7.5% Kentucky8.3%	7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Casey County8.2% Kentucky10.3%	8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Casey County18.1% Kentucky14.8%	18.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Casey County13.0% Kentucky12.4%	13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Casey County11.0% Kentucky9.6%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Casey County2.5% Kentucky4.5%	2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Casey County2.8% Kentucky5.2%	2.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Casey County0.7% Kentucky2.5%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Casey County0.1% Kentucky1.3%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Casey County5.4% Kentucky7.3%	5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Casey County9.5% Kentucky8.4%	9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Casey County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.5%) 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 Casey 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 Casey 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 Casey 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	Casey County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Casey County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Casey County now leave 16 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 Casey County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Casey County's commute time compare?

Metric	Casey County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.6%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Casey County is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau