Oldham County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oldham County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oldham County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 228 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.6 minutes.

Oldham County holds about 1.5% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 2.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oldham County would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,828 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)
Oldham County	27.4 min	54.7 min	228 hrs/yr	$7,069	2,394
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 27.4 minutes to get to work in Oldham County. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% 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 18.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oldham County

• Car: 79.8%
• Worked at Home: 18.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Biking is unusually rare in Oldham County: 31.6 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Oldham County: just 0.7%, 3.1 times below the Kentucky average of 2.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Oldham County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oldham 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.7%	5.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	4.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	5.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	92.3%	5.4%	1.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.5%	5.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	92.0%	5.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	92.0%	5.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	92.2%	5.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.7%	6.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	91.8%	6.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	91.3%	6.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.5%	9.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.8%	12.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.4%	14.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.7%	15.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.8%	18.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	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 2010 at 93.4%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 79.8% in 2024, down 12.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oldham County: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 18.7% in 2024, up 13.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Oldham County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oldham County?

The bars show when commuters in Oldham 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 Oldham County4.3% Kentucky5.9%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oldham County3.4% Kentucky4.3%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oldham County4.6% Kentucky5.3%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oldham County6.3% Kentucky8.3%	6.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oldham County9.6% Kentucky10.3%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oldham County17.4% Kentucky14.8%	17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oldham County12.9% Kentucky12.4%	12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oldham County12.1% Kentucky9.6%	12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oldham County4.8% Kentucky4.5%	4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oldham County6.3% Kentucky5.2%	6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oldham County3.2% Kentucky2.5%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oldham County1.3% Kentucky1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oldham County4.7% Kentucky7.3%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oldham County9.1% Kentucky8.4%	9.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oldham County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 12.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 52.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Oldham 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 Oldham 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 Oldham 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Oldham County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oldham County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Kentucky followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Oldham County now leave 3 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Oldham County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oldham County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.4 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	18.7%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oldham County is 27.4 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau