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Commuting in Findlay, 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 Findlay: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Findlay spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 104 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 8.5 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Findlay would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,295 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)
Findlay 12.5 min 25.1 min 104 hrs/yr $3,238 2,131
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.

Findlay Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.5 minutes to get to work in Findlay. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Findlay

  • Car: 85.6%
  • Worked at Home: 10.2%
  • Walked: 2.7%
  • Other: 1.0%
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Taxi: 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Findlay: 12.2 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Findlay, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Findlay 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 92.1% 3.5% 2.7% 0.6% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 92.1% 3.0% 2.9% 0.8% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 91.3% 3.4% 3.4% 0.7% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 91.5% 3.5% 3.5% 0.7% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 91.4% 3.8% 3.3% 0.7% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 91.7% 2.9% 3.8% 0.6% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 91.8% 3.1% 3.7% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 92.1% 3.1% 3.6% 0.4% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 92.7% 3.2% 3.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 93.2% 2.3% 2.4% 0.6% 0.6% 0.8% 0.1% 0.1%
2019 93.6% 2.5% 2.0% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1%
2020 91.5% 5.2% 1.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1%
2021 90.5% 5.7% 1.8% 0.9% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
2022 88.7% 6.2% 2.9% 0.9% 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.1%
2023 86.4% 8.9% 3.2% 0.9% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 85.6% 10.2% 2.7% 1.0% 0.4% 0.1% 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 2019 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Findlay: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 10.2% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.8% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

Commute Start Times in Findlay

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Findlay?

The bars show when commuters in Findlay 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
3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
13.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Findlay is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.8% across Ohio. Early starts are about as common as in Ohio: 14.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 42.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (33.3%) 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 Findlay, 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 Findlay 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 Findlay 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 Findlay Ohio United States
2009 7:51 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:50 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:51 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:54 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:52 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:51 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:51 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:51 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:49 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:48 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:48 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:47 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:43 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:47 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:49 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:50 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Findlay were on the road by 7:50 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:51 AM). Ohio followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Findlay now leave 12 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Findlay has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Findlay's commute time compare?

Metric Findlay Ohio US Average
Avg. Commute Time 12.5 min 21.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 10.2% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 2.7% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Findlay is 12.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Findlay, Ohio.

Is living in Findlay, Ohio good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 104 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,238 at a typical national wage. That's 41% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Findlay, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Findlay, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Findlay, 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.