Henry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Henry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Henry County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Henry County holds about 0.2% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Henry County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,092 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)
Henry County	20.2 min	40.5 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,229	664
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 20.2 minutes to get to work in Henry County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Henry County

• Car: 92.4%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Henry County: 5.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Henry County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	93.2%	3.8%	1.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.1%	4.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.0%	4.3%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	3.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	94.2%	3.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	95.0%	2.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.7%	2.3%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	95.6%	2.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.1%	2.5%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.9%	2.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.9%	2.6%	1.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	93.6%	4.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.1%	5.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.3%	5.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	92.8%	5.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	92.4%	5.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	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 was highest in 2016 at 95.6% and lowest in 2021 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 92.4% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Henry County: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.9% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Henry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Henry County?

The bars show when commuters in Henry 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 Henry County4.7% Ohio5.2%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Henry County4.8% Ohio3.9%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Henry County8.1% Ohio5.3%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Henry County8.1% Ohio8.4%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Henry County12.5% Ohio10.1%	12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Henry County12.1% Ohio13.4%	12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Henry County13.7% Ohio12.2%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Henry County8.0% Ohio10.5%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Henry County3.6% Ohio5.5%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Henry County3.2% Ohio6.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Henry County2.7% Ohio2.8%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Henry County0.7% Ohio1.5%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Henry County8.8% Ohio7.7%	8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Henry County9.0% Ohio7.8%	9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Henry County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.2% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.4%) 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 Henry 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 Henry 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 Henry 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.

• Henry County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Henry County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Henry County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Henry County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Henry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Henry County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Henry County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau