Floyd County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Floyd County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Floyd County spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 183 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Floyd County holds about 0.8% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Floyd County would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,268 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)
Floyd County	21.9 min	43.9 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,669	635
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

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On average, it takes 21.9 minutes to get to work in Floyd County. That's 2% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Floyd County

• Car: 93.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.2% unusually low
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: 1.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Floyd County: 8.4 times less than the Kentucky average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Floyd County: 3.2 times less than the Kentucky average (3.2% vs 10.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Floyd County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Floyd 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
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.2%	4.5%	3.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.4%	4.3%	3.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.5%	2.7%	3.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.5%	1.2%	2.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.8%	1.5%	2.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	95.9%	1.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.1%	1.7%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	96.2%	1.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.2%	2.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.8%	2.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	96.5%	1.5%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.1%	2.2%	2.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.6%	2.6%	2.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.2%	2.4%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.2%	2.9%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	3.2%	1.9%	1.2%	0.1%	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 2019 at 96.5%. Overall it rose from 91.2% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.7% to 1.9% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Floyd County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Floyd County?

The bars show when commuters in Floyd 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 Floyd County6.2% Kentucky5.9%	6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Floyd County3.6% Kentucky4.3%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Floyd County3.9% Kentucky5.3%	3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Floyd County7.7% Kentucky8.3%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Floyd County11.7% Kentucky10.3%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Floyd County14.8% Kentucky14.8%	14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Floyd County15.3% Kentucky12.4%	15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Floyd County12.9% Kentucky9.6%	12.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Floyd County3.8% Kentucky4.5%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Floyd County4.2% Kentucky5.2%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Floyd County0.8% Kentucky2.5%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Floyd County0.3% Kentucky1.3%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Floyd County7.0% Kentucky7.3%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Floyd County7.9% Kentucky8.4%	7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Floyd County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 54.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Floyd 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 Floyd 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 Floyd 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	Floyd County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 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	7:39 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	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Floyd County were on the road by 7:34 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 Floyd County now leave 4 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 Floyd County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Floyd County's commute time compare?

Metric	Floyd County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.9 min	20.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	3.2%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Floyd County is 21.9 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau