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Commuting in Lawrence County, 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 Lawrence County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lawrence County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Lawrence County holds about 0.5% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lawrence County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,160 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)
Lawrence County 20.9 min 41.8 min 174 hrs/yr $5,401 1,544
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
  1. Hancock County (15.3 min)
  2. Van Wert County (15.5 min)
  3. Mercer County (16.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Ohio
  1. Morgan County (32.5 min)
  2. Vinton County (32.0 min)
  3. Brown County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lawrence County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in Lawrence County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lawrence County

  • Car: 92.1%
  • Worked at Home: 5.2%
  • Walked: 1.4%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Lawrence County: 21.5 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 1.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lawrence County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lawrence 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 Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 94.9% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 95.1% 1.6% 1.1% 1.2% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 96.0% 1.3% 0.9% 1.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 96.3% 1.4% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 95.5% 1.9% 0.7% 0.7% 0.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 96.0% 2.0% 0.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 95.5% 1.9% 1.0% 1.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 94.4% 2.2% 1.7% 1.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0%
2017 95.2% 1.8% 1.5% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0%
2018 96.2% 1.4% 1.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 95.6% 2.2% 1.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 96.2% 2.1% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 95.3% 3.1% 0.8% 0.6% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 94.3% 3.7% 0.8% 0.9% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.9% 4.4% 1.3% 1.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 92.1% 5.2% 1.4% 1.1% 0.2% 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 peaked in 2012 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 94.9% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lawrence County: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 5.2% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lawrence County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lawrence County?

The bars show when commuters in Lawrence 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
5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lawrence County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% 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 concentrated than in Ohio: 49.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.6%) 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence 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 Lawrence County Ohio United States
2009 7:41 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:38 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:38 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:38 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:41 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:45 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:48 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:48 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:45 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:42 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:38 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:35 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:37 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:37 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:33 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:28 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lawrence County were on the road by 7:28 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lawrence County now leave 10 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lawrence County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lawrence County in the whole series.

How does Lawrence County's commute time compare?

Metric Lawrence County Ohio US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.9 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 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 5.2% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 1.4% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Lawrence County is about the same as in Ohio.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lawrence County, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lawrence County, OH is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 56,809 residents against a local median of 35,630. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Lawrence County, OH an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% below the local median at 5.2% against 6.0%. Lawrence County, OH has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Lawrence County, OH 56,809 20.9 min #4/6 5.2% #5/6 7:28 AM #2/6
Boyd County, KY 47,914 17.6 min 5.9% 7:40 AM
Gallia County, OH 29,068 18.9 min 8.0% 7:25 AM
Cabell County, WV 92,739 18.0 min 8.7% 7:41 AM
Greenup County, KY 35,630 21.6 min 5.0% 7:32 AM
Jackson County, OH 32,650 20.9 min 6.0% 7:35 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lawrence County, Ohio.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 174 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,401 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lawrence County, 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 Lawrence County, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).