Wayne County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wayne County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wayne County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 15% less time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Wayne County holds about 0.4% of Kentucky's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wayne County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,813 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)
Wayne County	17.5 min	35.1 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,533	488
Kentucky	20.8 min	41.5 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,361	832
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 17.5 minutes to get to work in Wayne County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 84% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 9.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 9.4%
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Wayne County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.

Walked commuting is unusually low in Wayne County: 3.5 times less than the Kentucky average (0.6% vs 2.0%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Wayne County, versus 0.1% in Kentucky.

How does Wayne County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wayne County	Kentucky	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 min	20.8 min	22.5 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%	9.1%	13.4%
Walked	0.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Wayne County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Kentucky. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau