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Logan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Logan 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 Logan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Logan County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Logan County holds about 0.6% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Logan County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,409 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)
Logan County 23.3 min 46.6 min 194 hrs/yr $6,023 499
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
  1. Calloway County (13.9 min)
  2. Owsley County (15.0 min)
  3. Taylor County (15.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky
  1. Owen County (37.7 min)
  2. Spencer County (33.3 min)
  3. Bracken County (33.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Logan County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.3 minutes to get to work in Logan County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Logan County

  • Car: 93.2%
  • Worked at Home: 3.9%
  • Other: 1.4%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Logan County, versus 0.6% in Kentucky.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Logan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Logan 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 Other Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 91.1% 3.4% 1.7% 2.4% 0.1% 1.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 90.6% 3.7% 2.2% 2.5% 0.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 91.5% 3.9% 1.8% 2.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 91.8% 3.8% 1.8% 1.9% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2%
2013 93.4% 2.9% 1.5% 1.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
2014 94.7% 2.6% 1.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
2015 94.5% 2.6% 1.3% 1.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
2016 94.1% 3.1% 1.4% 1.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
2017 95.1% 2.6% 1.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 95.1% 2.8% 1.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 94.3% 3.2% 0.8% 1.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 93.3% 3.8% 0.4% 2.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 94.0% 3.8% 0.3% 1.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 94.1% 3.7% 0.3% 1.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 94.7% 3.7% 0.5% 1.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.2% 3.9% 1.4% 1.4% 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 2017 at 95.1% and lowest in 2010 at 90.6%. Overall it rose from 91.1% in 2009 to 93.2% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Logan County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 3.9% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Logan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Logan County?

The bars show when commuters in Logan 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
10.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
10.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Logan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 42.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Logan 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 Logan 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 Logan 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 Logan County Kentucky United States
2009 7:03 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:05 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:06 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:04 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:08 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:09 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:01 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:02 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:05 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:04 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:05 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:11 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:12 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:06 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:05 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:05 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Logan County were on the road by 7:05 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:03 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Logan County now leave 33 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Logan County's commute time compare?

Metric Logan County Kentucky US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.3 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 3.9% 10.2% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Logan County is 23.3 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Logan County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Logan County, KY is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 27,986 residents against a local median of 19,972. The measure that sets Logan County, KY apart most is work from home: 3.9%, 28% below the local median of 5.3%.

The counties themselves spread 10.2% on work from home, so Logan County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Logan County, KY has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Logan County, KY 27,986 23.3 min #3/6 3.9% #5/6 7:05 AM #4/6
Todd County, KY 12,467 25.2 min 12.1% 6:55 AM
Simpson County, KY 19,972 17.1 min 5.3% 7:14 AM
Robertson County, TN 75,539 31.1 min 12.2% 7:03 AM
Butler County, KY 12,393 25.3 min 2.1% 6:58 AM
Muhlenberg County, KY 30,591 21.6 min 4.0% 7:05 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Logan County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Logan County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,023 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Logan County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Logan County, Kentucky?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Kentucky, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).