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Commute Time Burden in Magoffin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Magoffin County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Magoffin County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Magoffin County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,458 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)
Magoffin County 23.8 min 47.6 min 198 hrs/yr $6,144 551
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

Magoffin County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Magoffin County. That's 6% longer 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 walking. About 2.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Magoffin County

  • Car: 90.1%
  • Walked: 4.4%
  • Other: 2.6%
  • Worked at Home: 2.5% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Magoffin County: 4.1 times less than the Kentucky average (2.5% vs 10.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Magoffin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Magoffin 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 Walked Other Worked at Home Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 96.2% 2.0% 0.0% 1.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 94.0% 2.2% 0.0% 2.4% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 95.1% 1.8% 0.2% 2.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 96.9% 1.0% 0.2% 1.3% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 96.4% 1.0% 0.2% 2.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 96.1% 0.7% 0.3% 2.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 96.5% 0.6% 0.6% 2.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 97.0% 0.7% 0.4% 1.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 96.9% 0.9% 0.3% 1.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 96.2% 0.8% 0.3% 2.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 96.5% 0.6% 0.6% 1.8% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 94.7% 3.0% 0.1% 1.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 94.3% 2.7% 0.7% 1.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 93.2% 2.6% 1.0% 2.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 94.0% 2.9% 1.3% 1.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.1% 4.4% 2.6% 2.5% 0.3% 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 2016 at 97.0%. Overall it fell from 96.2% in 2009 to 90.1% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Magoffin County: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Magoffin County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Kentucky's 120 counties: 60.2% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Magoffin County?

The bars show when commuters in Magoffin 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
4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
23.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
0.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Magoffin County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 60.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.7%) 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 Magoffin 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 Magoffin 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 Magoffin 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 Magoffin County Kentucky United States
2009 7:31 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:30 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:30 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:34 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:18 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:23 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:25 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:24 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:15 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:32 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:24 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:30 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:31 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:33 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:20 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:19 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Magoffin County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Magoffin County now leave 18 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 Magoffin County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Magoffin County's commute time compare?

Metric Magoffin County Kentucky US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.8 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 2.5% 10.2% 15.0%
Walked 4.4% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.3% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Magoffin County is 23.8 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Magoffin County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Magoffin County, KY is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,344 residents against a local median of 14,053. Magoffin County, KY's work from home, at 2.5%, runs 64% below the 6.9% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 4.4% on work from home, so Magoffin County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Magoffin County, KY has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Magoffin County, KY 11,344 23.8 min #6/6 2.5% #6/6 7:19 AM #2/6
Johnson County, KY 22,334 18.3 min 6.9% 7:51 AM
Morgan County, KY 14,053 20.7 min 6.4% 7:12 AM
Breathitt County, KY 13,276 18.3 min 7.0% 7:24 AM
Floyd County, KY 35,224 21.9 min 3.2% 7:34 AM
Knott County, KY 13,830 21.0 min 7.6% 7:46 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Magoffin County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Magoffin County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,144 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Magoffin County, 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 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).