Lima Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lima, 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 Lima: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lima spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Lima 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 Lima would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,426 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)
Lima	13.8 min	27.6 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,564	2,310
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.

Lima Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.8 minutes to get to work in Lima. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 2.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lima

Working from home is unusually rare in Lima: 5.1 times less than the Ohio average (2.6% vs 13.0%).

Biking is unusually common in Lima: 3.3 times more than the Ohio average (1.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lima, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lima 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.9%	1.3%	1.6%	3.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	92.8%	1.2%	1.7%	3.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	93.2%	1.1%	1.7%	2.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.8%	1.3%	1.5%	2.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	94.4%	1.4%	0.6%	2.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.5%	1.2%	0.6%	2.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	94.5%	1.2%	0.7%	1.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.1%	1.2%	0.6%	2.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	92.2%	1.4%	1.3%	2.5%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	91.6%	2.0%	1.5%	2.3%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	90.4%	2.7%	2.0%	2.4%	1.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2020	89.9%	2.7%	2.4%	2.3%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	88.9%	3.6%	2.9%	2.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	90.5%	3.5%	2.0%	1.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	90.6%	3.2%	1.8%	1.9%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	91.5%	2.6%	2.0%	1.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 94.5% and lowest in 2021 at 88.9%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, down 1.4 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lima: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 2.6% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 3.6% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 2.6%.

Commute Start Times in Lima

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lima?

The bars show when commuters in Lima 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		6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		13.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		11.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lima is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 13.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.7% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 19.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 36.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (33.7%) 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 Lima, 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 Lima 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 Lima 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	Lima	Ohio	United States
2009	7:50 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:04 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:06 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:03 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:09 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:59 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:57 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lima were on the road by 7:45 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:50 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lima now leave 7 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 Lima has moved 24 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Lima in the whole series.

How does Lima's commute time compare?

Metric	Lima	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.8 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 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	2.6%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lima is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lima, Ohio.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lima, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 115 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,564 at a typical national wage. That's 35% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lima, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Lima, 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.