Adams County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Adams County, Ohio: 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 Adams County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Adams County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 237 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Adams County holds about 0.2% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Adams County would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,935 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)
Adams County	28.4 min	56.8 min	237 hrs/yr	$7,338	335
Ohio	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,447	1,212
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: Ohio Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Ohio

Hancock County (15.3 min)
Van Wert County (15.5 min)
Mercer County (16.0 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Ohio

Morgan County (32.5 min)
Vinton County (32.0 min)
Brown County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Adams County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 28.4 minutes to get to work in Adams County. That's 27% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 94% of counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Adams County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Adams County, versus 0.1% in Ohio.

Public transit is unusually rare in Adams County: 5.4 times less than the Ohio average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Adams County: 3.4 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Adams County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Adams 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	88.0%	4.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.9%	2.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	88.4%	5.4%	3.2%	0.0%	0.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	89.1%	5.8%	2.8%	0.0%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	89.2%	5.4%	2.7%	0.0%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	91.2%	5.0%	1.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.3%	4.5%	2.3%	0.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.7%	4.4%	2.7%	0.0%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.8%	5.7%	1.5%	0.1%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.3%	4.8%	1.3%	0.1%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.6%	4.9%	1.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	4.5%	1.4%	0.0%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	4.6%	1.4%	0.0%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.2%	4.5%	1.0%	0.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.1%	4.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	91.2%	5.3%	1.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	92.4%	5.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share rose from 88.0% in 2009 to 92.4% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Adams County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 5.3% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.2% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Adams County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Adams County?

The bars show when commuters in Adams 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 Ohio for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		13.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.7%

Adams County Ohio Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Adams County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 23.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 Adams 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 Adams 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 Adams County next to Ohio 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	Adams County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:11 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Adams County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Adams County now leave 21 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 Adams County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Adams County's commute time compare?

Metric	Adams County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.4 min	21.1 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Adams County is 28.4 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Adams County, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Adams County, OH is typical in size for this group, 27,540 residents against a local median of 27,044, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Adams County, OH breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 20% above the local median of 23.7 min at 28.4 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 5.3% against a local median of 6.5%, 18% below it. The counties themselves spread 14.5 min on one-way commute, so Adams County, OH sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Adams County, OH has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Adams County, OH	27,540	28.4 min #4/6	5.3% #5/6	7:17 AM #4/6
Lewis County, KY	12,965	30.7 min	12.0%	7:06 AM
Highland County, OH	43,517	23.7 min	6.5%	7:23 AM
Brown County, OH	43,837	32.0 min	6.5%	7:08 AM
Mason County, KY	16,956	17.5 min	8.1%	7:26 AM
Pike County, OH	27,044	22.7 min	5.2%	7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Adams County, Ohio.

Is commuting expensive in Adams County, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 237 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,338 at a typical national wage. That's 35% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Adams County, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Adams County, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Adams County, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Ohio?

Among counties in Ohio, the shortest average commutes are in Hancock County (15.3 min), Van Wert County (15.5 min), Mercer County (16.0 min). The longest are in Morgan County (32.5 min), Vinton County (32.0 min), Brown County (32.0 min).