Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 214 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Lincoln County holds about 0.5% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln County would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,657 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)
Lincoln County	25.7 min	51.4 min	214 hrs/yr	$6,643	692
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 25.7 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% of counties in Kentucky

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 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lincoln County

• Car: 89.3%
• Worked at Home: 8.9%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 5.6 times less than the Kentucky average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lincoln 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
• Public Transportation
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• Taxi
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	92.2%	6.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	92.6%	5.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	95.5%	2.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	94.3%	3.5%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	93.8%	4.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	93.9%	5.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.9%	6.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.5%	7.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.3%	6.2%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	92.1%	5.5%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	90.1%	6.8%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	90.0%	7.0%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	90.5%	6.6%	1.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2022	89.8%	8.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	87.8%	9.5%	2.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	89.3%	8.9%	1.6%	0.1%	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 2011 at 95.5% and lowest in 2023 at 87.8%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 89.3% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lincoln County: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Lincoln County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln County?

The bars show when commuters in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County5.5% Kentucky5.9%	5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lincoln County4.4% Kentucky4.3%	4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lincoln County4.6% Kentucky5.3%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lincoln County8.5% Kentucky8.3%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lincoln County12.2% Kentucky10.3%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lincoln County17.0% Kentucky14.8%	17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lincoln County13.8% Kentucky12.4%	13.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lincoln County12.1% Kentucky9.6%	12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lincoln County5.4% Kentucky4.5%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lincoln County1.6% Kentucky5.2%	1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lincoln County1.7% Kentucky2.5%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lincoln County0.5% Kentucky1.3%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lincoln County6.7% Kentucky7.3%	6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lincoln County5.9% Kentucky8.4%	5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lincoln County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 55.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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	Lincoln County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln County were on the road by 7:26 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kentucky, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lincoln County now leave 12 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 Lincoln County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.7 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	8.9%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is 25.7 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau