Taylor County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Taylor County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taylor County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Taylor County holds about 0.6% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Taylor County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,576 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)
Taylor County	15.3 min	30.5 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,941	369
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 15.3 minutes to get to work in Taylor County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taylor County

• Car: 86.0%
• Worked at Home: 9.8%
• Other: 2.2%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Taylor County: 14.1 times less than the Kentucky average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Taylor County, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.8%	3.8%	0.4%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	91.1%	5.3%	0.5%	2.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	91.0%	5.3%	0.6%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	90.2%	6.5%	0.8%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	91.2%	6.2%	0.4%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	89.5%	5.5%	1.0%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	90.0%	4.4%	1.4%	3.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	90.3%	4.3%	1.4%	3.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.1%	3.7%	1.2%	3.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.0%	3.2%	1.3%	3.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.3%	3.2%	0.5%	3.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.2%	6.5%	0.7%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.6%	9.3%	1.2%	2.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.9%	10.0%	1.4%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.5%	10.9%	1.9%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.0%	9.8%	2.2%	1.9%	0.0%	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 2019 at 93.3% and lowest in 2023 at 84.5%. Overall it fell from 92.8% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 6.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Taylor County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 6.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.9% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 10.9% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 9.8%.

Commute Start Times in Taylor County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taylor County?

The bars show when commuters in Taylor 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 Taylor County7.1% Kentucky5.9%	7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Taylor County4.8% Kentucky4.3%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Taylor County8.1% Kentucky5.3%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Taylor County7.2% Kentucky8.3%	7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Taylor County7.6% Kentucky10.3%	7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Taylor County11.3% Kentucky14.8%	11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Taylor County14.6% Kentucky12.4%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Taylor County8.9% Kentucky9.6%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Taylor County1.6% Kentucky4.5%	1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Taylor County5.3% Kentucky5.2%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Taylor County1.1% Kentucky2.5%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Taylor County0.8% Kentucky1.3%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Taylor County10.1% Kentucky7.3%	10.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Taylor County11.5% Kentucky8.4%	11.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Taylor County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 20.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 42.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.8%) 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Taylor County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 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	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taylor County were on the road by 7:38 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kentucky, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Taylor County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Taylor County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Taylor County's commute time compare?

Metric	Taylor County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.3 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	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.8%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Taylor County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau