Garrard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Garrard County, 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 Garrard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Garrard County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 10.0 minutes.

Garrard County holds about 0.4% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Garrard County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,180 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)
Garrard County	30.8 min	61.6 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,950	525
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

Garrard County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.8 minutes to get to work in Garrard County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 92% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Garrard County

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

Walking is unusually rare in Garrard County: 6.3 times less than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Garrard County, versus 0.2% in Kentucky.

Few people walk or bike to work in Garrard County: just 0.3%, 6.9 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Garrard County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Garrard 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.7%	5.9%	0.6%	0.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.0%	5.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.3%	4.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	4.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.4%	5.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	92.9%	4.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	92.2%	5.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	4.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	92.1%	5.7%	0.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	5.8%	0.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	91.9%	6.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	6.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	89.6%	9.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	10.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.4%	11.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.1%	11.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	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 2011 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 87.1% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Garrard County: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Garrard County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Garrard County?

The bars show when commuters in Garrard 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		8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		21.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Garrard County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 21.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 51.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.1%) 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 Garrard 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 Garrard 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 Garrard 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	Garrard County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Garrard County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 26 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Garrard County now leave 28 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 Garrard County has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Garrard County in the whole series.

How does Garrard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Garrard County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.0%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Garrard County is 30.8 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Garrard County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Garrard County, KY is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 17,568 residents against a local median of 30,941. Where Garrard County, KY breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 36% above the local median of 22.7 min at 30.8 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 9.3 min on one-way commute, so Garrard County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Garrard County, KY has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Garrard County, KY	17,568	30.8 min #6/6	11.0% #2/6	7:10 AM #1/6
Lincoln County, KY	24,512	25.7 min	8.9%	7:26 AM
Jessamine County, KY	54,588	22.7 min	11.2%	7:46 AM
Madison County, KY	95,769	21.0 min	9.6%	7:43 AM
Boyle County, KY	30,941	16.4 min	10.0%	7:45 AM
Rockcastle County, KY	16,158	22.7 min	10.4%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Garrard County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Garrard County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,950 at a typical national wage. That's 48% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Garrard County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky?

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).