Daviess County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Daviess County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Daviess County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 135 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Daviess County holds about 2.3% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Daviess County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,680 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)
Daviess County	16.3 min	32.5 min	135 hrs/yr	$4,200	856
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

Calloway County (13.9 min)
Owsley County (15.0 min)
Taylor County (15.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky

Owen County (37.7 min)
Spencer County (33.3 min)
Bracken County (33.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Daviess County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.3 minutes to get to work in Daviess County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 95% 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 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Daviess County

Commute Mode Trends in Daviess County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Daviess 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	95.1%	2.2%	1.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	94.8%	2.4%	1.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	94.8%	2.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	95.0%	2.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	94.8%	1.8%	1.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	94.7%	1.8%	2.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	94.7%	1.8%	2.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	94.8%	1.6%	2.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	94.8%	1.5%	2.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	94.7%	1.9%	1.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	94.4%	2.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	93.7%	3.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	93.6%	3.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	4.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	91.9%	5.4%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	6.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Daviess County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.4% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Daviess County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Daviess County?

The bars show when commuters in Daviess 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		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Daviess County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kentucky's: 48.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.6%) 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 Daviess 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 Daviess 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 Daviess 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	Daviess County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Daviess County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Daviess County now leave 15 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 Daviess County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Daviess County's commute time compare?

Metric	Daviess County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.3 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	6.1%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Daviess County is 16.3 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Daviess County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Daviess County, KY is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 103,589 residents against a local median of 19,953. The measure that sets Daviess County, KY apart most is one-way commute: 16.3 min, 28% below the local median of 22.7 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 6.1% against a local median of 4.8%, 25% above it. The counties themselves spread 10.3 min on one-way commute, so Daviess County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Daviess County, KY has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Daviess County, KY	103,589	16.3 min #1/6	6.1% #3/6	7:23 AM #6/6
McLean County, KY	9,114	31.1 min	6.8%	7:02 AM
Spencer County, IN	19,953	22.7 min	4.5%	7:01 AM
Hancock County, KY	9,034	20.8 min	3.1%	7:11 AM
Ohio County, KY	23,735	28.4 min	4.8%	6:52 AM
Warrick County, IN	65,261	21.3 min	9.3%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Daviess County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Daviess County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 135 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,200 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Daviess County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Kentucky have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).