Fleming County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Fleming County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fleming County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 200 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Fleming County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fleming County would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,478 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)
Fleming County	24.0 min	48.0 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,195	362
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 24.0 minutes to get to work in Fleming County. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% 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 6.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fleming County

• Car: 90.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.7%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.8%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Fleming County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fleming 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Taxi
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	89.1%	7.4%	2.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	90.6%	6.8%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.1%	6.8%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	4.5%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	3.7%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	3.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	93.5%	4.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	94.4%	3.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	2.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	92.7%	4.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.7%	3.7%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	6.2%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	6.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.2%	7.2%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	93.1%	5.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.9%	6.7%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 94.4%. Overall it rose from 89.1% in 2009 to 90.9% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Fleming County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fleming County?

The bars show when commuters in Fleming 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 Fleming County6.7% Kentucky5.9%	6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Fleming County6.1% Kentucky4.3%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Fleming County5.4% Kentucky5.3%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Fleming County8.2% Kentucky8.3%	8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Fleming County6.2% Kentucky10.3%	6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Fleming County19.5% Kentucky14.8%	19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Fleming County18.6% Kentucky12.4%	18.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Fleming County7.6% Kentucky9.6%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Fleming County1.0% Kentucky4.5%	1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Fleming County3.7% Kentucky5.2%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Fleming County1.9% Kentucky2.5%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Fleming County2.2% Kentucky1.3%	2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Fleming County6.1% Kentucky7.3%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Fleming County6.9% Kentucky8.4%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fleming County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 51.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Fleming 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 Fleming 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 Fleming 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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• Kentucky
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Fleming County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fleming County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Fleming County now leave 11 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 Fleming County has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Fleming County's commute time compare?

Metric	Fleming County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	24.0 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	6.7%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fleming County is 24.0 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau