Montgomery County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montgomery County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 158 hours, about 6.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Montgomery County holds about 4.5% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 4.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montgomery County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,955 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)
Montgomery County	18.9 min	37.8 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,886	1,806
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

Hancock County (15.3 min)
Van Wert County (15.5 min)
Mercer County (16.0 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Ohio

Morgan County (32.5 min)
Vinton County (32.0 min)
Brown County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Montgomery County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.9 minutes to get to work in Montgomery County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 70% of counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montgomery County

Commute Mode Trends in Montgomery County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montgomery 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.4%	2.6%	2.4%	2.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	91.2%	2.9%	2.4%	2.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	90.6%	3.2%	2.6%	2.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	90.3%	3.3%	2.7%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	90.7%	3.2%	2.7%	2.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	90.8%	3.0%	2.6%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	90.9%	3.1%	2.4%	2.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	90.9%	3.2%	2.6%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	91.1%	3.2%	2.4%	2.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	90.5%	3.5%	2.5%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	90.2%	3.8%	2.5%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.0%	5.2%	2.7%	2.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	87.6%	7.1%	2.4%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	86.2%	8.8%	2.3%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	84.9%	10.5%	2.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	83.8%	12.0%	2.0%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montgomery County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 9.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Montgomery County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montgomery County?

The bars show when commuters in Montgomery 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		4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montgomery County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.2% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.7%) 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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	Montgomery County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 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	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montgomery County were on the road by 7:49 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Ohio, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Montgomery County now leave 11 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 Montgomery County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Montgomery County's commute time compare?

Metric	Montgomery County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montgomery County is 18.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Ohio. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Montgomery County, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Montgomery County, OH is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 535,982 residents against a local median of 169,687. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Montgomery County, OH an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 14% below the local median at 18.9 min against 22.1 min. Montgomery County, OH has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Montgomery County, OH	535,982	18.9 min #1/6	12.0% #4/6	7:49 AM #6/6
Miami County, OH	110,296	20.1 min	10.2%	7:27 AM
Warren County, OH	249,858	23.4 min	18.6%	7:42 AM
Preble County, OH	40,765	22.9 min	7.3%	7:21 AM
Greene County, OH	169,687	20.3 min	12.9%	7:46 AM
Butler County, OH	393,616	22.1 min	13.3%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Montgomery County, Ohio.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 158 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,886 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Montgomery County, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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).