Morrow County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Morrow County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morrow County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 263 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 10.4 minutes.

Morrow County holds about 0.3% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morrow County would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,256 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)
Morrow County	31.5 min	63.0 min	263 hrs/yr	$8,141	719
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 31.5 minutes to get to work in Morrow County. That's 41% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest 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 12.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morrow County

• Car: 82.6%
• Worked at Home: 12.4%
• Other: 2.3%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1%

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Morrow County: 3.1 times more than the Ohio average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Morrow County: 3.9 times less than the Ohio average (0.3% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Morrow County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morrow 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.5%	5.3%	1.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	92.0%	5.1%	1.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.3%	4.3%	1.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	4.7%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.8%	4.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.5%	3.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.6%	3.2%	0.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.5%	3.4%	0.9%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.7%	3.6%	1.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	89.6%	4.9%	2.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	90.3%	4.6%	2.1%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	87.9%	6.4%	2.2%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	86.5%	8.5%	2.0%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	84.7%	10.2%	2.2%	2.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.7%	11.3%	1.8%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	82.6%	12.4%	2.3%	1.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 82.6% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morrow County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 12.4% in 2024, up 7.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Morrow County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morrow County?

The bars show when commuters in Morrow 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 Morrow County8.1% Ohio5.2%	8.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Morrow County4.3% Ohio3.9%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Morrow County8.8% Ohio5.3%	8.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Morrow County10.2% Ohio8.4%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Morrow County13.4% Ohio10.1%	13.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Morrow County15.7% Ohio13.4%	15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Morrow County10.1% Ohio12.2%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Morrow County6.5% Ohio10.5%	6.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Morrow County2.2% Ohio5.5%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Morrow County5.7% Ohio6.0%	5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Morrow County1.5% Ohio2.8%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Morrow County0.3% Ohio1.5%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Morrow County5.9% Ohio7.7%	5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Morrow County7.4% Ohio7.8%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morrow County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 45.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Morrow 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 Morrow 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 Morrow 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.

• Morrow County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Morrow County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:09 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morrow County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Morrow County now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Morrow County's commute time compare?

Metric	Morrow County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.5 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	12.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morrow County is 31.5 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau