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Webster County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Webster County, Kentucky: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Webster County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Webster County spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 226 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% more time on the road than the Kentucky average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Webster County holds about 0.3% of Kentucky's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Webster County would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,807 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)
Webster County 27.2 min 54.3 min 226 hrs/yr $7,017 308
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
  1. Calloway County (13.9 min)
  2. Owsley County (15.0 min)
  3. Taylor County (15.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kentucky
  1. Owen County (37.7 min)
  2. Spencer County (33.3 min)
  3. Bracken County (33.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Webster County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.2 minutes to get to work in Webster County. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% of counties in Kentucky

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 2.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Webster County

  • Car: 93.4%
  • Walked: 3.1%
  • Worked at Home: 2.6% unusually low
  • Other: 0.6%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Bicycle: 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Webster County, versus 0.6% in Kentucky.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Webster County: 3.9 times less than the Kentucky average (2.6% vs 10.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Webster County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Webster 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 Walked Worked at Home Other Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 95.1% 1.9% 2.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2010 95.1% 1.9% 2.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 94.8% 1.9% 2.1% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 94.6% 2.3% 2.0% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 95.2% 2.0% 2.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 93.9% 3.1% 2.1% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.6% 3.4% 1.9% 0.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 93.7% 3.2% 2.1% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 94.6% 3.1% 1.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 95.1% 3.0% 1.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 96.0% 2.2% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 96.7% 1.6% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 96.1% 1.7% 1.7% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 96.2% 1.2% 2.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 95.3% 1.8% 2.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 93.4% 3.1% 2.6% 0.6% 0.2% 0.1% 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 2020 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 93.4% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Webster County: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 3.1% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Webster County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Webster County?

The bars show when commuters in Webster 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
9.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
8.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
19.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Webster County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 19.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Kentucky. Early starts are more common than in Kentucky: 20.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 15.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kentucky: 37.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Webster 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 Webster 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 Webster 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 Webster County Kentucky United States
2009 7:14 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:09 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:12 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:09 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:10 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:14 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:15 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:16 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:14 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:14 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:03 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:00 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:01 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:06 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:06 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Webster County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kentucky, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Webster County now leave 31 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 Webster County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Webster County's commute time compare?

Metric Webster County Kentucky US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.2 min 20.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 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 2.6% 10.2% 15.0%
Walked 3.1% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Webster County is 27.2 minutes, longer than the 20.8 minutes in Kentucky.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Kentucky. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Kentucky.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Webster County, KY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Webster County, KY is typical in size for this group, 12,842 residents against a local median of 13,258, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Webster County, KY apart most is work from home: 2.6%, 50% below the local median of 5.2%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 27.2 min against a local median of 18.9 min, 44% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 44% above the local median it puts Webster County, KY at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 3.2% on work from home, so Webster County, KY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Webster County, KY has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Webster County, KY 12,842 27.2 min #5/6 2.6% #6/6 7:06 AM #2/6
Hopkins County, KY 45,117 16.6 min 3.7% 7:25 AM
Union County, KY 13,258 20.2 min 6.4% 7:07 AM
Henderson County, KY 44,257 18.8 min 5.2% 7:14 AM
Caldwell County, KY 12,618 18.9 min 4.0% 7:14 AM
McLean County, KY 9,114 31.1 min 6.8% 7:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Webster County, Kentucky.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Webster County, Kentucky?

Commuters here spend an estimated 226 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,017 at a typical national wage. That's 31% more than the typical Kentucky commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Webster County, Kentucky?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Webster 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.

Do people use public transit in Webster County, Kentucky?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Kentucky, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Kentucky have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).