Medina County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Medina County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Medina 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 209 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 4.0 minutes.

Medina County holds about 1.6% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Medina County would save about 83 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,588 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)
Medina County	25.0 min	50.1 min	209 hrs/yr	$6,470	1,246
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 25.0 minutes to get to work in Medina County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% 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 15.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Medina County

• Car: 82.4%
• Worked at Home: 15.3%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Medina County: 8.5 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Medina County: 3.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Medina County: 6.1 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Medina County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Medina 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	92.9%	4.6%	1.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	92.9%	4.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	92.9%	4.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	93.0%	4.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	93.1%	4.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.1%	4.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	92.9%	4.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	93.2%	4.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.4%	4.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.8%	4.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.5%	5.0%	0.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	90.9%	7.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	88.2%	9.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	86.0%	11.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	84.2%	13.4%	1.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	82.4%	15.3%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 93.4%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 82.4% in 2024, down 10.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Medina County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 15.3% in 2024, up 10.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Medina County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Medina County?

The bars show when commuters in Medina 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 Medina County4.6% Ohio5.2%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Medina County3.1% Ohio3.9%	3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Medina County4.6% Ohio5.3%	4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Medina County10.1% Ohio8.4%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Medina County11.5% Ohio10.1%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Medina County15.1% Ohio13.4%	15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Medina County11.1% Ohio12.2%	11.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Medina County11.4% Ohio10.5%	11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Medina County5.1% Ohio5.5%	5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Medina County6.3% Ohio6.0%	6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Medina County2.0% Ohio2.8%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Medina County1.4% Ohio1.5%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Medina County6.8% Ohio7.7%	6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Medina County6.7% Ohio7.8%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Medina County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Ohio: 49.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Medina 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 Medina 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 Medina 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.

• Medina County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Medina County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Medina County were on the road by 7:33 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Ohio, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Medina County now leave 5 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 Medina County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Medina County's commute time compare?

Metric	Medina County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.0 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	15.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Medina County is 25.0 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau