Pike County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Pike County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pike County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Pike County holds about 1.3% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pike County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,081 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)
Pike County	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,204	474
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

Pike County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Pike County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pike County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pike County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pike 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.8%	1.3%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	96.1%	0.9%	2.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	96.1%	0.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	95.8%	0.9%	2.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	95.1%	1.5%	2.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.5%	1.7%	2.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.3%	2.2%	2.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	2.3%	2.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.9%	2.7%	2.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.6%	2.8%	2.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.1%	2.9%	2.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	93.1%	3.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	92.2%	4.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	92.7%	4.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.2%	4.5%	1.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	5.8%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 96.8% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, down 5.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pike County: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 4.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.7% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Pike County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pike County?

The bars show when commuters in Pike 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pike County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are less common than in Kentucky: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.9%) 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 Pike 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 Pike 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 Pike 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	Pike County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pike County were on the road by 7:40 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:31 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Pike County now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Pike County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Pike County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pike County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 min	20.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	5.8%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pike County is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pike County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pike County, KY is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 56,725 residents against a local median of 19,415. The measure that sets Pike County, KY apart most is one-way commute: 20.1 min, 24% below the local median of 26.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 8.7 min on one-way commute, so Pike County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pike County, KY has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pike County, KY	56,725	20.1 min #1/6	5.8% #3/6	7:40 AM #5/6
Dickenson County, VA	13,730	27.0 min	6.4%	7:25 AM
Martin County, KY	11,027	23.9 min	3.9%	7:08 AM
Floyd County, KY	35,224	21.9 min	3.2%	7:34 AM
Mingo County, WV	22,544	30.6 min	5.5%	7:38 AM
Buchanan County, VA	19,415	26.6 min	6.5%	7:46 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pike County, Kentucky.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,204 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Pike County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Pike 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.

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).