Owen County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Owen 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 Owen County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Owen County spend about 75 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 314 hours, about 13.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 81% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 16.9 minutes.

Owen County holds about 0.2% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Owen County would save about 126 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,892 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)
Owen County	37.7 min	75.3 min	314 hrs/yr	$9,730	335
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

Calloway County (13.9 min)
Owsley County (15.0 min)
Taylor County (15.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky

Owen County (37.7 min)
Spencer County (33.3 min)
Bracken County (33.2 min)

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Owen County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 37.7 minutes to get to work in Owen County. That's 68% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Owen County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Owen County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Owen 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	97.4%	1.6%	0.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.9%	2.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.1%	5.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.4%	5.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.3%	5.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	91.5%	6.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.1%	5.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	91.3%	7.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.1%	6.8%	1.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.0%	4.9%	1.4%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.8%	4.0%	0.2%	2.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.7%	7.3%	0.2%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.1%	5.6%	0.5%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.7%	9.3%	1.2%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.0%	11.2%	0.8%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	11.3%	1.1%	0.8%	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 bottomed out in 2023 at 85.0%. Overall it fell from 97.4% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 11.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Owen County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 11.3% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.8% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Owen County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Owen County?

The bars show when commuters in Owen 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		13.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Owen County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 24.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 40.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Owen 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 Owen 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 Owen 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	Owen County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Owen County were on the road by 7:07 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Owen County now leave 31 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 Owen County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Owen County's commute time compare?

Metric	Owen County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	37.7 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.3%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Owen County is 37.7 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Owen County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Owen County, KY is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,330 residents against a local median of 15,856. Where Owen County, KY breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 49% above the local median of 7.6% at 11.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 37.7 min against a local median of 26.4 min, 43% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 43% above the local median it puts Owen County, KY at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 9.7% on work from home, so Owen County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Owen County, KY has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Owen County, KY	11,330	37.7 min #6/6	11.3% #2/6	7:07 AM #2/6
Gallatin County, KY	8,769	30.5 min	4.5%	7:09 AM
Grant County, KY	25,418	26.4 min	7.6%	7:20 AM
Franklin County, KY	51,842	16.4 min	14.2%	7:41 AM
Henry County, KY	15,856	28.2 min	8.7%	7:13 AM
Carroll County, KY	10,949	18.6 min	4.8%	7:01 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Owen County, Kentucky.

Is commuting expensive in Owen County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 314 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $9,730 at a typical national wage. That's 81% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Owen County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 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).