Madison County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Madison County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Madison County spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 210 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Madison 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 Madison County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,599 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)
Madison County	25.2 min	50.3 min	210 hrs/yr	$6,498	1,091
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 25.2 minutes to get to work in Madison County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% 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 15.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Madison County

• Car: 82.9%
• Worked at Home: 15.2%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Madison County: 5.3 times less than the Ohio average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Madison County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Madison 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
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.9%	3.4%	2.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	92.1%	3.4%	3.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	92.6%	2.8%	3.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	93.0%	2.7%	3.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	93.6%	2.3%	3.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.6%	3.2%	3.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.5%	3.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	92.8%	4.1%	1.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	92.9%	4.1%	1.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.1%	4.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	3.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.6%	6.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.7%	8.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.6%	10.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.9%	12.9%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.9%	15.2%	1.1%	0.5%	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. Overall its share fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 82.9% in 2024, down 11.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Madison County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 15.2% in 2024, up 11.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.1% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Madison County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Madison County?

The bars show when commuters in Madison 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 Madison County4.7% Ohio5.2%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Madison County3.4% Ohio3.9%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Madison County4.6% Ohio5.3%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Madison County11.3% Ohio8.4%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Madison County13.6% Ohio10.1%	13.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Madison County17.7% Ohio13.4%	17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Madison County10.4% Ohio12.2%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Madison County9.5% Ohio10.5%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Madison County3.8% Ohio5.5%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Madison County3.7% Ohio6.0%	3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Madison County2.1% Ohio2.8%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Madison County1.5% Ohio1.5%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Madison County7.0% Ohio7.7%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Madison County6.6% Ohio7.8%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Madison County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Ohio: 51.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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.

• Madison County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Madison County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 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 Madison County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Madison County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Madison County's commute time compare?

Metric	Madison County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.2 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	15.2%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Madison County is 25.2 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau