Larue County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Larue County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Larue County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 226 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Larue County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Larue County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,799 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)
Larue County	27.1 min	54.2 min	226 hrs/yr	$6,998	379
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 27.1 minutes to get to work in Larue County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% 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 9.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Larue County

• Car: 90.0%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Other: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Larue County: 177700142.9 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Larue County: 3.3 times less than the Kentucky average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Larue County: just 0.0%, 194569074.2 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Larue County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Larue 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Walked
2009	94.2%	3.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	94.8%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	94.4%	3.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.1%
2012	94.5%	3.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.3%
2013	94.6%	3.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2014	94.8%	2.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%
2015	93.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.1%
2016	94.1%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.3%
2017	93.8%	4.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%
2018	95.4%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2019	95.9%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2020	95.8%	3.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	95.1%	4.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	95.0%	4.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	92.1%	7.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	90.0%	9.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2019 at 95.9%. Overall it fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 90.0% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Larue County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 9.5% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 4.1% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Larue County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Larue County?

The bars show when commuters in Larue 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 Larue County5.4% Kentucky5.9%	5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Larue County5.5% Kentucky4.3%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Larue County8.0% Kentucky5.3%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Larue County11.1% Kentucky8.3%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Larue County11.6% Kentucky10.3%	11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Larue County15.2% Kentucky14.8%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Larue County11.2% Kentucky12.4%	11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Larue County7.2% Kentucky9.6%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Larue County2.8% Kentucky4.5%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Larue County3.8% Kentucky5.2%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Larue County1.9% Kentucky2.5%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Larue County0.5% Kentucky1.3%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Larue County7.5% Kentucky7.3%	7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Larue County8.3% Kentucky8.4%	8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Larue County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 19.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 45.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Larue 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 Larue 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 Larue 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	Larue County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Larue County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Larue County now leave 21 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 Larue County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Larue County's commute time compare?

Metric	Larue County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.1 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	9.5%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Larue County is 27.1 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau