Grayson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grayson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grayson County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Grayson County holds about 0.6% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grayson County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,099 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)
Grayson County	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,247	422
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 20.3 minutes to get to work in Grayson County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grayson County

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 6.6%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Grayson County: 3.1 times less than the Kentucky average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grayson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grayson 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
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.8%	3.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%
2010	93.7%	4.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%
2011	93.6%	4.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%
2012	93.3%	4.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%
2013	94.1%	3.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	93.6%	4.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	95.0%	3.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	95.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	94.6%	2.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	93.5%	2.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	93.0%	2.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	92.9%	2.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	92.5%	3.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.5%	5.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.9%	6.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	6.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 95.1%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grayson County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Grayson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grayson County?

The bars show when commuters in Grayson 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 Grayson County14.0% Kentucky5.9%	14.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grayson County6.8% Kentucky4.3%	6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grayson County8.2% Kentucky5.3%	8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grayson County9.8% Kentucky8.3%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grayson County14.8% Kentucky10.3%	14.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grayson County11.0% Kentucky14.8%	11.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grayson County7.7% Kentucky12.4%	7.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grayson County3.0% Kentucky9.6%	3.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grayson County1.1% Kentucky4.5%	1.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grayson County3.5% Kentucky5.2%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grayson County3.0% Kentucky2.5%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grayson County3.2% Kentucky1.3%	3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grayson County5.6% Kentucky7.3%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grayson County8.3% Kentucky8.4%	8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grayson County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.3% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 29.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 36.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Grayson 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 Grayson 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 Grayson 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.

• Grayson County
• Kentucky
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grayson County	Kentucky	United States
2009	6:54 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:58 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:02 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:58 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:50 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:53 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:53 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grayson County were on the road by 6:53 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (6:54 AM). Kentucky followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Grayson County now leave 45 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Grayson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grayson County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.6%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grayson County is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau