Todd County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Todd County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Todd County spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 210 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Todd County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Todd County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,601 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)
Todd County	25.2 min	50.3 min	210 hrs/yr	$6,502	1,258
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.

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On average, it takes 25.2 minutes to get to work in Todd County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Todd County

• Car: 83.0%
• Worked at Home: 12.1%
• Other: 2.3%
• Bicycle: 1.7% unusually high
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Todd County: 5.0 times more than the Kentucky average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Todd County: 4.8 times less than the Kentucky average (0.4% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Todd County: 10.4 times less than the Kentucky average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Todd County: 9.2 times more than the Kentucky average (1.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Todd County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Todd 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
• Other
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	93.1%	2.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.6%	1.8%	2.7%	0.2%	0.1%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	91.7%	1.3%	3.2%	0.4%	0.1%	2.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	91.9%	1.4%	2.5%	0.5%	0.1%	3.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	91.3%	2.6%	2.3%	0.6%	0.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	91.1%	3.6%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	3.5%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.3%	3.8%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.7%	3.6%	1.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.8%	3.6%	2.7%	1.4%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.8%	2.6%	2.9%	2.6%	0.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.4%	5.4%	2.8%	2.4%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.0%	6.3%	2.7%	1.9%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.5%	9.4%	2.1%	2.0%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	10.2%	1.3%	1.0%	0.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.0%	12.1%	2.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, down 10.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Todd County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 12.1% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Todd County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Todd County?

The bars show when commuters in Todd 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 Todd County9.6% Kentucky5.9%	9.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Todd County12.3% Kentucky4.3%	12.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Todd County6.3% Kentucky5.3%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Todd County11.4% Kentucky8.3%	11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Todd County12.3% Kentucky10.3%	12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Todd County17.3% Kentucky14.8%	17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Todd County11.0% Kentucky12.4%	11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Todd County3.0% Kentucky9.6%	3.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Todd County0.8% Kentucky4.5%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Todd County2.2% Kentucky5.2%	2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Todd County1.8% Kentucky2.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Todd County2.1% Kentucky1.3%	2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Todd County4.3% Kentucky7.3%	4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Todd County5.5% Kentucky8.4%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Todd County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 28.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 43.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.9%) 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 Todd 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 Todd 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 Todd 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	Todd County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:04 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:58 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:06 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:06 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Todd County were on the road by 6:55 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:01 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Todd County now leave 43 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 Todd County has moved 14 minutes earlier.

How does Todd County's commute time compare?

Metric	Todd County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.2 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	05:00 AM – 05:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.1%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Todd County is 25.2 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau