Commuting in Martin 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 Martin County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Martin 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 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.
Martin County holds about 0.2% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Martin County would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,471 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)
Martin County
23.9 min
47.8 min
199 hrs/yr
$6,178
450
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.
On average, it takes
23.9
minutes to get to work in
Martin County.
That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 70% of counties in Kentucky
The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 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 Martin County
Car:
95.4%
Worked at Home:
3.9%
Other:
0.6%
Public Transportation:
0.2%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Walked:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Martin County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.
Walking is essentially absent in Martin County, versus 2.0% in Kentucky.
Public transit is unusually rare in Martin County: 3.4 times less than the Kentucky average (0.2% vs 0.6%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Martin County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.
Biking is essentially absent in Martin County, versus 0.2% in Kentucky.
Walking or biking to work is essentially absent in Martin County, versus 2.2% in Kentucky.
Commute Mode Trends in Martin County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Martin 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
Other
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
Walked
2009
90.3%
2.5%
1.7%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
4.1%
2010
94.2%
2.3%
0.0%
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
2011
93.9%
2.7%
0.2%
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
2012
96.0%
1.6%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
2013
95.5%
1.3%
0.4%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.5%
2014
97.1%
1.3%
0.3%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
2015
95.6%
1.4%
0.8%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
2016
96.7%
1.5%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
2017
98.3%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
2018
97.7%
0.8%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.4%
2019
97.3%
0.9%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.7%
2020
98.4%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.6%
2021
97.4%
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.1%
2022
96.0%
4.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
95.7%
4.1%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
95.4%
3.9%
0.6%
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 2020 at 98.4%. Overall it rose from 90.3% in 2009 to 95.4% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Martin County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 3.9% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 4.1 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Commute Start Times in Martin County
⏰Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Kentucky's 120 counties: the typical start is 31 minutes earlier than in 2009.
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Martin County?
The bars show when commuters in Martin 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 AMMartin County12.0%Kentucky5.9%
12.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMMartin County11.0%Kentucky4.3%
11.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMMartin County4.9%Kentucky5.3%
4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMMartin County4.9%Kentucky8.3%
4.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMMartin County13.1%Kentucky10.3%
13.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMMartin County14.4%Kentucky14.8%
14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMMartin County6.3%Kentucky12.4%
6.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMMartin County14.6%Kentucky9.6%
14.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMMartin County4.8%Kentucky4.5%
4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMMartin County4.7%Kentucky5.2%
4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMMartin County0.7%Kentucky2.5%
0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMMartin County0.7%Kentucky1.3%
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMMartin County4.2%Kentucky7.3%
4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMMartin County3.5%Kentucky8.4%
3.5%
Martin CountyKentuckySource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Martin County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.6% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 27.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kentucky's: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.9%) 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 Martin 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 Martin 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 Martin 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
Martin County
Kentucky
United States
2009
7:39 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:44 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:46 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:47 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:49 AM
7:35 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:49 AM
7:35 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:42 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:41 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:37 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:34 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:35 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:25 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:21 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:16 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:16 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:09 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Martin County were on the road by 7:09 AM, 31 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Martin County now leave 29 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 Martin County has moved 26 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Martin County in the whole series.
How does Martin County's commute time compare?
Metric
Martin County
Kentucky
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
23.9 min
20.8 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
08:00 AM – 08:29 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
3.9%
10.2%
15.0%
Walked
< 0.1%
2.0%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Martin County is 23.9 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.
Martin County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Martin County, KY is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,027 residents against a local median of 35,224. The measure that sets Martin County, KY apart most is work from home: 3.9%, 30% below the local median of 5.5%.
The counties themselves spread 3.7% on work from home, so Martin County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Martin County, KY has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Martin County, Kentucky.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Martin County, Kentucky?
Commuters here spend an estimated 199 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,178 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Martin County, Kentucky?
Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Martin 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.
Do people use public transit in Martin County, Kentucky?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Kentucky, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Which counties in Kentucky have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).