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Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Carroll 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 Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll 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 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.9 minutes.

Carroll 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 Carroll County would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,788 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)
Carroll County 27.0 min 54.0 min 225 hrs/yr $6,970 847
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
  1. Hancock County (15.3 min)
  2. Van Wert County (15.5 min)
  3. Mercer County (16.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Ohio
  1. Morgan County (32.5 min)
  2. Vinton County (32.0 min)
  3. Brown County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Carroll County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 27.0 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 20% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 87% of counties in Ohio

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 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carroll County

  • Car: 84.8%
  • Worked at Home: 7.9%
  • Walked: 3.6%
  • Other: 2.2%
  • Taxi: 1.3% unusually high
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Carroll County: 37005570.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Carroll County: 10.1 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Carroll County: 5.9 times more than the Ohio average (1.3% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Carroll County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carroll 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 Other Taxi Bicycle Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 92.7% 4.4% 1.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.1%
2010 92.7% 4.5% 1.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.2%
2011 93.1% 3.1% 2.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0% 0.2%
2012 93.3% 3.5% 2.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.2%
2013 92.7% 4.2% 2.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.6% 0.1%
2014 92.3% 4.3% 2.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4%
2015 91.7% 4.7% 2.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
2016 92.3% 5.2% 1.7% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2017 91.5% 4.3% 2.4% 0.4% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 91.8% 4.1% 2.2% 0.6% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 91.3% 3.7% 3.5% 0.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 88.0% 5.6% 3.6% 0.8% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 87.2% 5.7% 4.3% 0.8% 1.9% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 86.8% 6.9% 3.5% 1.3% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 86.3% 7.3% 3.4% 1.3% 1.4% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1%
2024 84.8% 7.9% 3.6% 2.2% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carroll County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Carroll County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carroll County?

The bars show when commuters in Carroll 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
7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carroll County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 22.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 42.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.6%) 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll County Ohio United States
2009 7:25 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:28 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:26 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:24 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:21 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:20 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:19 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:22 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:21 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:21 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:18 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:17 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:15 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 7:13 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carroll County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Carroll County now leave 25 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 Carroll County has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Carroll County in the whole series.

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric Carroll County Ohio US Average
Avg. Commute Time 27.0 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 7.9% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 3.6% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Carroll County is 27.0 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 3.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Carroll County, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Carroll County, OH is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 26,659 residents against a local median of 92,349. Carroll County, OH's one-way commute, at 27.0 min, runs 30% above the 20.7 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 9.3 min on one-way commute, so Carroll County, OH sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Carroll County, OH has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Carroll County, OH 26,659 27.0 min #5/6 7.9% #4/6 7:13 AM #1/6
Harrison County, OH 14,306 28.1 min 6.6% 7:18 AM
Stark County, OH 373,683 18.7 min 11.8% 7:34 AM
Columbiana County, OH 100,702 20.9 min 6.2% 7:24 AM
Jefferson County, OH 64,518 20.7 min 8.7% 7:38 AM
Tuscarawas County, OH 92,349 19.0 min 8.3% 7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Carroll County, Ohio.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Carroll County, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 225 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,970 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Carroll County, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Carroll County, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Carroll County, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% 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).