Highland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Highland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Highland County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Highland County holds about 0.4% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Highland County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,447 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)
Highland County	23.7 min	47.4 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,116	495
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 23.7 minutes to get to work in Highland County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% 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 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Highland County

• Car: 91.0%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Highland County: 13.1 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Highland County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.9%	3.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	3.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	92.5%	4.3%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	92.4%	4.1%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.0%	3.7%	1.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.8%	3.6%	1.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.6%	4.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.3%	3.9%	2.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.5%	3.9%	2.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	92.1%	4.2%	2.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.3%	3.9%	2.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.8%	4.8%	2.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.6%	5.4%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	91.4%	5.8%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	6.3%	1.1%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	6.5%	1.2%	0.9%	0.4%	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 bottomed out in 2023 at 90.9%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 91.0% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Highland County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.5% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Highland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Highland County?

The bars show when commuters in Highland 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 Highland County8.4% Ohio5.2%	8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Highland County4.8% Ohio3.9%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Highland County9.6% Ohio5.3%	9.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Highland County8.0% Ohio8.4%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Highland County10.9% Ohio10.1%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Highland County10.9% Ohio13.4%	10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Highland County8.4% Ohio12.2%	8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Highland County8.0% Ohio10.5%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Highland County5.4% Ohio5.5%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Highland County3.7% Ohio6.0%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Highland County1.9% Ohio2.8%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Highland County1.9% Ohio1.5%	1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Highland County8.5% Ohio7.7%	8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Highland County9.7% Ohio7.8%	9.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Highland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 10.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 22.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 38.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.6%) 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 Highland 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 Highland 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 Highland 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.

• Highland County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Highland County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Highland County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Highland County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Highland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Highland County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	6.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Highland County is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau