Fayette County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Fayette County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fayette County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Fayette 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 Fayette County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,304 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)
Fayette County	22.3 min	44.6 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,760	804
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

Fayette County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Fayette County. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 5.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fayette County

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

Biking is essentially absent in Fayette County, versus 0.3% in Ohio.

Commute Mode Trends in Fayette County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fayette 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.9%	3.6%	1.7%	0.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.1%	3.5%	1.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	93.1%	3.0%	1.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	93.2%	2.9%	2.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.2%	2.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.2%	2.9%	2.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.9%	2.7%	2.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	94.5%	3.3%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	95.0%	3.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	94.8%	3.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	95.6%	2.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	95.2%	3.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	95.2%	3.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.3%	4.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.6%	4.4%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.4%	5.5%	1.3%	0.5%	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 2019 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 92.4% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fayette County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 5.5% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

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

Public transit overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.9% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Fayette County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fayette County?

The bars show when commuters in Fayette 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		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fayette County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 19.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 41.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.1%) 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 Fayette 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 Fayette 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 Fayette 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	Fayette County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fayette County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Fayette County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Fayette County's commute time compare?

Metric	Fayette County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 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	5.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fayette County is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Fayette County, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Fayette County, OH is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 28,876 residents against a local median of 44,416. Where Fayette County, OH breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 57% below the local median of 12.9% at 5.5%.

The counties themselves spread 8.7% on work from home, so Fayette County, OH sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Fayette County, OH has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fayette County, OH	28,876	22.3 min #3/6	5.5% #6/6	7:21 AM #3/6
Madison County, OH	44,416	25.2 min	15.2%	7:21 AM
Clinton County, OH	42,019	20.7 min	7.8%	7:23 AM
Highland County, OH	43,517	23.7 min	6.5%	7:23 AM
Pickaway County, OH	60,131	27.3 min	13.5%	7:10 AM
Greene County, OH	169,687	20.3 min	12.9%	7:46 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fayette County, Ohio.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Fayette County, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,760 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Fayette County, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fayette 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).