Brown County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brown County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brown County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 10.9 minutes.

Brown County holds about 0.4% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brown County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,302 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)
Brown County	32.0 min	63.9 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,255	429
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

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On average, it takes 32.0 minutes to get to work in Brown County. That's 43% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brown County

• Car: 91.8%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Brown County: 5.9 times less than the Ohio average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Brown County, versus 0.2% in Ohio.

Biking is unusually rare in Brown County: 4.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Brown County: just 0.4%, 5.7 times below the Ohio average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Brown County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brown 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
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	94.3%	3.5%	0.7%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	3.7%	0.4%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	4.0%	0.5%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.3%	3.4%	0.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.1%	3.6%	0.7%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.9%	4.2%	0.4%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.1%	5.2%	0.3%	0.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.4%	5.4%	0.7%	0.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.1%	5.3%	0.5%	0.1%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.2%	5.5%	0.5%	0.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.7%	5.7%	0.5%	0.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.0%	4.8%	0.9%	0.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.3%	4.0%	0.9%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	92.6%	5.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.8%	6.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.8%	6.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	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 was highest in 2010 at 94.4% and lowest in 2019 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 94.3% in 2009 to 91.8% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brown County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Brown County

• 🐦 Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among Ohio's 88 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:08 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brown County?

The bars show when commuters in Brown 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	12:00-4:59 AM Brown County10.0% Ohio5.2%	10.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Brown County6.1% Ohio3.9%	6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Brown County8.7% Ohio5.3%	8.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Brown County11.0% Ohio8.4%	11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Brown County11.3% Ohio10.1%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Brown County10.8% Ohio13.4%	10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Brown County8.2% Ohio12.2%	8.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Brown County8.9% Ohio10.5%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Brown County3.7% Ohio5.5%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Brown County3.9% Ohio6.0%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Brown County1.9% Ohio2.8%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Brown County1.6% Ohio1.5%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Brown County7.4% Ohio7.7%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Brown County6.4% Ohio7.8%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brown County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 11.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 24.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 39.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.2%) 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 Brown 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 Brown 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 Brown 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.

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• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Brown County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:14 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:11 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:05 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brown County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Brown County now leave 30 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 Brown County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Brown County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brown County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.0 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	6.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brown County is 32.0 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau