Pendleton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pendleton 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 Pendleton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pendleton County spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 277 hours, about 11.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 60% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 12.4 minutes.

Pendleton County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pendleton County would save about 111 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,429 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)
Pendleton County	33.2 min	66.4 min	277 hrs/yr	$8,573	518
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)

Compare commute times among different counties

Pendleton County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 33.2 minutes to get to work in Pendleton County. That's 48% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pendleton County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pendleton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pendleton 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.0%	2.5%	3.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.6%	2.1%	3.2%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.5%	2.2%	1.9%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.2%	2.0%	2.0%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.6%	1.9%	1.3%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	97.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	96.8%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	97.2%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	96.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	96.3%	3.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.0%	3.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	4.8%	1.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.4%	5.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.6%	5.5%	3.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.1%	7.5%	2.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.7%	9.4%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	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 2016 at 97.2%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 6.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pendleton County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 9.4% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 2.5% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pendleton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pendleton County?

The bars show when commuters in Pendleton 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		8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		15.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pendleton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 19.3% 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 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Pendleton 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 Pendleton 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 Pendleton 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	Pendleton County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pendleton County were on the road by 7:10 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kentucky, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Pendleton County now leave 27 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 Pendleton County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Pendleton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pendleton County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.4%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pendleton County is 33.2 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pendleton County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pendleton County, KY is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 14,723 residents against a local median of 25,418. Pendleton County, KY's one-way commute, at 33.2 min, runs 46% above the 22.8 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 9.4% against a local median of 7.6%, 24% above it. The counties themselves spread 12.6 min on one-way commute, so Pendleton County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pendleton County, KY has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pendleton County, KY	14,723	33.2 min #5/6	9.4% #3/6	7:10 AM #1/6
Campbell County, KY	93,398	21.8 min	17.1%	7:44 AM
Harrison County, KY	19,140	22.8 min	5.1%	7:24 AM
Grant County, KY	25,418	26.4 min	7.6%	7:20 AM
Bracken County, KY	8,444	33.2 min	3.4%	7:24 AM
Kenton County, KY	171,173	20.6 min	14.1%	7:42 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pendleton County, Kentucky.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Pendleton County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 277 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,573 at a typical national wage. That's 60% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Pendleton County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pendleton County, Kentucky. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).