Jessamine County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Jessamine 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 Jessamine County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jessamine 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.

Jessamine County holds about 1.2% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jessamine County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,342 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)
Jessamine County	22.7 min	45.3 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,855	1,437
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

Jessamine County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.7 minutes to get to work in Jessamine County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jessamine County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Jessamine County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jessamine 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.8%	5.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.6%	5.6%	3.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	91.1%	5.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	91.4%	5.1%	3.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.5%	4.9%	2.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.1%	4.9%	2.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.4%	4.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.1%	4.7%	2.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.6%	5.1%	2.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.8%	5.5%	2.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.9%	5.7%	2.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	89.5%	6.7%	3.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.9%	7.6%	3.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.9%	9.1%	2.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.3%	10.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.3%	11.2%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2013 at 92.5%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 86.3% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jessamine County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 11.2% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 2.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jessamine County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jessamine County?

The bars show when commuters in Jessamine 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jessamine County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 54.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Jessamine 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 Jessamine 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 Jessamine 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	Jessamine County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jessamine County were on the road by 7:46 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kentucky, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Jessamine County now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Jessamine County has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Jessamine County in the whole series.

How does Jessamine County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jessamine County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.2%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

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

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Jessamine County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Jessamine County, KY is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 54,588 residents against a local median of 27,278. Jessamine County, KY sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 6% above the local median at 22.7 min against 21.5 min. Jessamine County, KY has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Jessamine County, KY	54,588	22.7 min #4/6	11.2% #3/6	7:46 AM #5/6
Fayette County, KY	323,723	18.5 min	12.2%	7:59 AM
Woodford County, KY	27,278	22.8 min	14.9%	7:30 AM
Garrard County, KY	17,568	30.8 min	11.0%	7:10 AM
Mercer County, KY	23,027	21.5 min	10.9%	7:25 AM
Madison County, KY	95,769	21.0 min	9.6%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Jessamine County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Jessamine County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 189 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,855 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Jessamine County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Jessamine County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 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).