Jeffersontown Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Jeffersontown, 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 Jeffersontown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jeffersontown spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Jeffersontown 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 Jeffersontown would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,200 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)
Jeffersontown	21.3 min	42.6 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,501	3,992
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.

Jeffersontown Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.3 minutes to get to work in Jeffersontown. That's 5% shorter 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 16.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jeffersontown

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

Biking is unusually rare in Jeffersontown: 5.2 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Jeffersontown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jeffersontown 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.3%	2.9%	0.6%	0.9%	2.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2010	92.9%	2.8%	0.4%	0.9%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	93.4%	2.5%	0.2%	1.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.9%	2.8%	0.5%	0.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	3.2%	0.5%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	3.3%	0.5%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	92.0%	3.5%	0.5%	2.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	91.5%	4.4%	0.3%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	90.6%	4.4%	0.5%	2.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	90.4%	5.7%	0.3%	1.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	90.9%	5.9%	0.4%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	89.9%	8.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.0%	10.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	86.1%	12.7%	0.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.7%	13.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.7%	16.7%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2012 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 80.7% in 2024, down 11.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jeffersontown: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 16.7% in 2024, up 13.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 0.5% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.9% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Jeffersontown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jeffersontown?

The bars show when commuters in Jeffersontown 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		2.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jeffersontown is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 57.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.6%) 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 Jeffersontown, 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 Jeffersontown 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 Jeffersontown 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	Jeffersontown	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:57 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:50 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:49 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jeffersontown were on the road by 7:46 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:57 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Jeffersontown now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Jeffersontown's commute time compare?

Metric	Jeffersontown	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 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	16.7%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jeffersontown is about the same as in Kentucky.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jeffersontown, Kentucky.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Jeffersontown, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,501 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Jeffersontown, Kentucky?

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

How much time do residents in Jeffersontown, Kentucky save by working from home?

About 16.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Jeffersontown would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,200 at the same national wage assumption used above.