Elizabethtown Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Elizabethtown, 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 Elizabethtown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Elizabethtown spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 125 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.

Elizabethtown holds about 0.6% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Elizabethtown would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,552 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)
Elizabethtown	15.0 min	30.0 min	125 hrs/yr	$3,881	1,738
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.

Elizabethtown Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.0 minutes to get to work in Elizabethtown. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Elizabethtown

Public transit is unusually rare in Elizabethtown: 5.4 times less than the Kentucky average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Elizabethtown: 9.9 times more than the Kentucky average (1.4% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually common in Elizabethtown: 4.7 times more than the Kentucky average (0.9% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Elizabethtown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Elizabethtown 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	Taxi	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	96.1%	2.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	96.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	96.3%	1.5%	0.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	96.2%	1.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	95.4%	1.9%	0.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2014	95.7%	1.6%	0.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2015	94.1%	1.5%	0.1%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%
2016	93.2%	2.1%	0.3%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	1.1%	0.3%
2017	93.4%	1.9%	0.3%	2.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2018	93.3%	2.2%	0.3%	2.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2019	91.9%	2.6%	0.3%	2.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2020	91.2%	4.1%	0.2%	2.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%
2021	91.1%	3.8%	0.5%	2.2%	1.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	89.9%	4.7%	0.6%	2.1%	2.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	89.0%	5.8%	0.7%	1.4%	2.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	7.0%	1.4%	1.4%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 96.4%. Overall it fell from 96.1% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Elizabethtown: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.9% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Elizabethtown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Elizabethtown?

The bars show when commuters in Elizabethtown 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		6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Elizabethtown is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.3% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 16.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kentucky's: 47.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.9%) 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 Elizabethtown, 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 Elizabethtown 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 Elizabethtown 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	Elizabethtown	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Elizabethtown were on the road by 7:35 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). Kentucky followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Elizabethtown now leave 3 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 Elizabethtown has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Elizabethtown's commute time compare?

Metric	Elizabethtown	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.0 min	20.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	7.0%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Elizabethtown is 15.0 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.1% 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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Is living in Elizabethtown, Kentucky good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 125 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,881 at a typical national wage. That's 28% less than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Elizabethtown, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Elizabethtown, 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.

Do people use public transit in Elizabethtown, Kentucky?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Kentucky, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.