Commuting in Morgan 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 Morgan County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Morgan County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way.
Morgan 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 Morgan County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,141 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)
Morgan County
20.7 min
41.4 min
173 hrs/yr
$5,352
288
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
20.7
minutes to get to work in
Morgan County.
That's 8% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
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 6.4% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Morgan County
Car:
91.2%
Worked at Home:
6.4%
Public Transportation:
1.1%
Other:
0.9%
Walked:
0.5%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Morgan County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.
Walking is unusually rare in Morgan County: 4.1 times less than the Kentucky average (0.5% vs 2.0%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Morgan County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.
Biking is essentially absent in Morgan County, versus 0.2% in Kentucky.
Few people walk or bike to work in Morgan County: just 0.5%, 4.4 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.
Commute Mode Trends in Morgan County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Morgan 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
Public Transportation
Other
Walked
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
90.0%
6.0%
0.0%
0.0%
4.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
90.5%
6.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2011
91.9%
5.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2012
92.3%
4.0%
0.0%
0.0%
3.7%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2013
93.2%
3.8%
0.0%
0.2%
2.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
94.1%
3.1%
0.0%
0.5%
2.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
95.6%
2.4%
0.0%
0.6%
1.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
96.3%
1.8%
0.0%
1.1%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
96.3%
2.2%
0.0%
1.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
95.6%
2.8%
0.0%
1.1%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
95.6%
3.0%
0.3%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
96.5%
2.3%
0.3%
0.6%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
92.6%
6.6%
0.4%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
89.5%
8.3%
1.2%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
91.5%
6.2%
1.2%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
91.2%
6.4%
1.1%
0.9%
0.5%
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 2020 at 96.5% and lowest in 2022 at 89.5%. Overall it rose from 90.0% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points.
Public transit gained the most ground in Morgan County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.1% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 0.5% of workers (down 3.5 percentage points).
Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.
Working from home peaked at 8.3% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 6.4%.
Commute Start Times in Morgan County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan County?
The bars show when commuters in Morgan 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 AMMorgan County5.7%Kentucky5.9%
5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMMorgan County6.0%Kentucky4.3%
6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMMorgan County9.0%Kentucky5.3%
9.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMMorgan County12.0%Kentucky8.3%
12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMMorgan County9.6%Kentucky10.3%
9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMMorgan County18.5%Kentucky14.8%
18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMMorgan County18.5%Kentucky12.4%
18.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMMorgan County5.9%Kentucky9.6%
5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMMorgan County0.7%Kentucky4.5%
0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMMorgan County3.7%Kentucky5.2%
3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMMorgan County1.5%Kentucky2.5%
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMMorgan County0.3%Kentucky1.3%
0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMMorgan County5.4%Kentucky7.3%
5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMMorgan County3.3%Kentucky8.4%
3.3%
Morgan CountyKentuckySource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Morgan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 20.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 52.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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
Morgan County
Kentucky
United States
2009
7:34 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:35 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:35 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:32 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:32 AM
7:35 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:34 AM
7:35 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:26 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:26 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:25 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
7:15 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:12 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:13 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Morgan County now leave 25 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 Morgan County has moved 12 minutes earlier.
How does Morgan County's commute time compare?
Metric
Morgan County
Kentucky
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
20.7 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
6.4%
10.2%
15.0%
Walked
0.5%
2.0%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.1%
0.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Morgan County is about the same as in Kentucky.
1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.
Morgan County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Morgan County, KY is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 14,053 residents against a local median of 7,307. Morgan County, KY sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.
The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 13% below the local median at 20.7 min against 23.8 min. Morgan County, KY has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Morgan County, Kentucky.
Is living in Morgan County, Kentucky good for avoiding long commute costs?
Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,352 at a typical national wage.
When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Morgan County, Kentucky?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Morgan County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).