Hopkins County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hopkins County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hopkins County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Hopkins County holds about 1.0% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hopkins County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,713 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)
Hopkins County	16.6 min	33.1 min	138 hrs/yr	$4,282	380
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 16.6 minutes to get to work in Hopkins County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hopkins County

• Car: 94.9%
• Worked at Home: 3.7%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Hopkins County: 36.0 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Hopkins County: 4.8 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hopkins County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hopkins 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
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	95.3%	2.2%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.6%	1.5%	1.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	1.9%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.3%	1.7%	1.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.6%	1.6%	2.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	95.0%	1.6%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.8%	1.6%	2.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	95.1%	1.5%	1.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	95.2%	1.6%	1.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	95.9%	1.4%	1.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.0%	2.1%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	95.9%	2.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.0%	2.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.4%	3.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.1%	3.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.9%	3.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	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 was highest in 2021 at 96.0% and lowest in 2013 at 94.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 95.3% in 2009 and 94.9% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hopkins County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 3.7% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.5% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in Hopkins County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hopkins County?

The bars show when commuters in Hopkins 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 Hopkins County10.1% Kentucky5.9%	10.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hopkins County5.1% Kentucky4.3%	5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hopkins County6.2% Kentucky5.3%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hopkins County9.0% Kentucky8.3%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hopkins County10.1% Kentucky10.3%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hopkins County11.5% Kentucky14.8%	11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hopkins County10.5% Kentucky12.4%	10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hopkins County6.7% Kentucky9.6%	6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hopkins County2.9% Kentucky4.5%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hopkins County4.0% Kentucky5.2%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hopkins County1.9% Kentucky2.5%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hopkins County1.1% Kentucky1.3%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hopkins County9.3% Kentucky7.3%	9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hopkins County11.7% Kentucky8.4%	11.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hopkins County is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 11.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 21.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 38.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.0%) 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 Hopkins 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 Hopkins 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 Hopkins 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	Hopkins County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hopkins County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Kentucky followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hopkins County now leave 13 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 Hopkins County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Hopkins County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hopkins County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.6 min	20.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	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	3.7%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hopkins County is 16.6 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau