Henderson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Henderson 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 Henderson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henderson County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Henderson County holds about 1.0% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henderson County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,939 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)
Henderson County	18.8 min	37.5 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,847	1,545
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

Henderson County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Henderson County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% 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 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Henderson County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Henderson County: 7.2 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Henderson County: 5.6 times more than the Kentucky average (0.8% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Henderson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Henderson 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	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	95.9%	1.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2010	95.8%	1.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	96.4%	1.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	95.9%	1.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	94.8%	2.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.4%
2014	95.2%	2.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.4%
2015	94.7%	2.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%
2016	93.9%	2.9%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%
2017	94.7%	2.4%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%
2018	95.2%	2.1%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2019	94.6%	2.9%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	94.0%	3.9%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	94.6%	3.7%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	92.8%	4.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	4.9%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	89.8%	5.2%	2.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	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 96.4%. Overall it fell from 95.9% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Henderson County: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 5.2% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Henderson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henderson County?

The bars show when commuters in Henderson 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		7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Henderson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 19.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 43.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.7%) 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 Henderson 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 Henderson 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 Henderson 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	Henderson County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Henderson County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Henderson County now leave 24 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 Henderson County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Henderson County in the whole series.

How does Henderson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henderson County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	5.2%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Henderson County is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Henderson County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Henderson County, KY is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 44,257 residents against a local median of 13,258. Henderson County, KY's work from home, at 5.2%, runs 19% below the 6.4% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 18.8 min against a local median of 22.5 min, 17% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% below the local median it puts Henderson County, KY at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.2% on work from home, so Henderson County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Henderson County, KY has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Henderson County, KY	44,257	18.8 min #2/6	5.2% #5/6	7:14 AM #5/6
Vanderburgh County, IN	180,116	17.1 min	6.7%	7:36 AM
Webster County, KY	12,842	27.2 min	2.6%	7:06 AM
Posey County, IN	25,116	22.5 min	6.0%	7:09 AM
Union County, KY	13,258	20.2 min	6.4%	7:07 AM
McLean County, KY	9,114	31.1 min	6.8%	7:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Henderson County, Kentucky.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Henderson County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 156 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,847 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Henderson County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Henderson 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).