Green County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Green County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Green County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Green County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Green County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,343 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)
Green County	22.7 min	45.3 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,857	269
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 22.7 minutes to get to work in Green County. That's 1% longer 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 5.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Green County

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 5.1%
• Other: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Green County: 3.3 times more than the Kentucky average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Green County: 6.8 times less than the Kentucky average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Green County: just 0.3%, 7.5 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Green County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Green 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.5%	4.8%	3.2%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.0%	4.2%	3.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.3%	5.3%	1.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	6.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.0%	3.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	5.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.4%	4.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	4.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	3.7%	1.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.1%	4.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.2%	5.3%	0.5%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.3%	5.7%	0.0%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	5.2%	1.1%	1.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	7.4%	0.9%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.7%	7.0%	0.9%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	5.1%	1.8%	1.2%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2013 at 95.0% and lowest in 2022 at 89.0%. Overall it rose from 90.5% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Green County: its share of workers rose from 0.5% in 2009 to 1.2% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 7.4% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 5.1%.

Commute Start Times in Green County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Green County?

The bars show when commuters in Green 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 Green County9.1% Kentucky5.9%	9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Green County7.6% Kentucky4.3%	7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Green County8.8% Kentucky5.3%	8.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Green County8.9% Kentucky8.3%	8.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Green County11.0% Kentucky10.3%	11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Green County13.4% Kentucky14.8%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Green County15.6% Kentucky12.4%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Green County8.3% Kentucky9.6%	8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Green County1.6% Kentucky4.5%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Green County2.9% Kentucky5.2%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Green County0.0% Kentucky2.5%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Green County1.4% Kentucky1.3%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Green County5.3% Kentucky7.3%	5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Green County6.1% Kentucky8.4%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Green County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 25.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kentucky's: 48.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.7%) 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 Green 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 Green 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 Green 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Green County	Kentucky	United States
2009	6:57 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:00 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Green County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (6:57 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Green County now leave 27 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 Green County has moved 23 minutes later.

How does Green County's commute time compare?

Metric	Green County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 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	5.1%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Green County is 22.7 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

1.2% 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