Trigg County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Trigg County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Trigg County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Trigg 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 Trigg County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,340 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)
Trigg County	22.6 min	45.3 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,850	374
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 22.6 minutes to get to work in Trigg County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Trigg County

• Car: 86.6%
• Worked at Home: 10.3%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 1.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Trigg County: 4.9 times more than the Kentucky average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Trigg County: 3.4 times less than the Kentucky average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Trigg County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Trigg 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	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.8%	2.2%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.0%	2.3%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.1%	3.0%	1.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	2.7%	2.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	2.4%	2.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	2.7%	3.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.8%	2.6%	3.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	95.0%	1.7%	2.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	3.2%	2.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.8%	3.1%	2.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.1%	4.2%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	6.0%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	8.2%	0.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	7.9%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	10.1%	1.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.6%	10.3%	1.4%	1.2%	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 2010 at 95.0%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 86.6% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Trigg County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 8.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.4% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Trigg County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Trigg County?

The bars show when commuters in Trigg 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 Trigg County5.8% Kentucky5.9%	5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Trigg County2.4% Kentucky4.3%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Trigg County8.1% Kentucky5.3%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Trigg County8.7% Kentucky8.3%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Trigg County14.1% Kentucky10.3%	14.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Trigg County18.5% Kentucky14.8%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Trigg County11.4% Kentucky12.4%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Trigg County6.1% Kentucky9.6%	6.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Trigg County2.9% Kentucky4.5%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Trigg County4.7% Kentucky5.2%	4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Trigg County1.6% Kentucky2.5%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Trigg County1.3% Kentucky1.3%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Trigg County8.1% Kentucky7.3%	8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Trigg County6.2% Kentucky8.4%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Trigg County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across Kentucky. Early starts are about as common as in Kentucky: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kentucky: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Trigg 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 Trigg 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 Trigg 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	Trigg County	Kentucky	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Trigg County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:08 AM). That goes against the trend across Kentucky, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Trigg County now leave 20 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 Trigg County has moved 20 minutes later.

How does Trigg County's commute time compare?

Metric	Trigg County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.3%	10.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Trigg County is 22.6 minutes, longer 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