Guernsey County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Guernsey County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Guernsey County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 143 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Guernsey County holds about 0.3% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Guernsey County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,768 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)
Guernsey County	17.1 min	34.2 min	143 hrs/yr	$4,419	599
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.

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On average, it takes 17.1 minutes to get to work in Guernsey County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% of counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Guernsey County

• Car: 93.5%
• Worked at Home: 4.0% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.9% unusually high
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Guernsey County: 20.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Guernsey County: 4.4 times more than the Ohio average (0.9% vs 0.2%).

Working from home is unusually rare in Guernsey County: 3.2 times less than the Ohio average (4.0% vs 13.0%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Guernsey County: just 0.7%, 3.2 times below the Ohio average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Guernsey County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Guernsey 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Taxi
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Taxi	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.7%	4.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	93.0%	4.2%	0.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	93.7%	3.8%	0.0%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	93.5%	3.6%	0.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	93.4%	4.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	93.2%	4.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	94.2%	3.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.7%	3.6%	0.0%	2.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	3.3%	0.0%	1.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.5%	2.8%	0.0%	2.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.7%	2.3%	0.1%	2.3%	2.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.7%	2.8%	0.2%	1.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	94.2%	2.7%	0.4%	1.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	93.8%	3.1%	0.3%	1.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	94.0%	3.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.5%	4.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	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 2015 at 94.2% and lowest in 2018 at 92.5%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 93.7% in 2009 and 93.5% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Taking a taxi gained the most ground in Guernsey County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.9% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Guernsey County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Guernsey County?

The bars show when commuters in Guernsey 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 Guernsey County7.4% Ohio5.2%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Guernsey County7.0% Ohio3.9%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Guernsey County9.0% Ohio5.3%	9.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Guernsey County7.4% Ohio8.4%	7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Guernsey County11.3% Ohio10.1%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Guernsey County11.5% Ohio13.4%	11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Guernsey County13.2% Ohio12.2%	13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Guernsey County6.5% Ohio10.5%	6.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Guernsey County2.6% Ohio5.5%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Guernsey County4.2% Ohio6.0%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Guernsey County2.1% Ohio2.8%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Guernsey County1.2% Ohio1.5%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Guernsey County6.7% Ohio7.7%	6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Guernsey County9.9% Ohio7.8%	9.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Guernsey County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.2% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 23.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 42.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Guernsey 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 Guernsey 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 Guernsey 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.

• Guernsey County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Guernsey County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Guernsey County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Guernsey County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Guernsey County's commute time compare?

Metric	Guernsey County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Guernsey County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau