Paulding County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Paulding County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Paulding County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 189 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Paulding County holds about 0.2% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Paulding County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,338 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)
Paulding County	22.6 min	45.3 min	189 hrs/yr	$5,846	467
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 22.6 minutes to get to work in Paulding County. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Paulding County

• Car: 93.8%
• Worked at Home: 4.1% unusually low
• Walked: 1.8%
• Other: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Paulding County, versus 0.1% in Ohio.

Public transit is essentially absent in Paulding County, versus 1.0% in Ohio.

Working from home is unusually rare in Paulding County: 3.2 times less than the Ohio average (4.1% vs 13.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Paulding County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.9%	1.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	95.7%	2.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	94.8%	2.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	93.8%	4.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.7%	4.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	4.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	4.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.1%	4.2%	2.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.5%	3.1%	3.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.3%	2.1%	3.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.1%	1.7%	3.8%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	94.7%	1.6%	2.4%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.8%	2.9%	2.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.4%	3.5%	2.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.3%	3.8%	2.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.8%	4.1%	1.8%	0.2%	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. Its share bottomed out in 2016 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 95.9% in 2009 to 93.8% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Paulding County: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 4.1% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 3.8% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.8%.

Commute Start Times in Paulding County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Paulding County?

The bars show when commuters in Paulding 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 Paulding County10.6% Ohio5.2%	10.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Paulding County6.2% Ohio3.9%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Paulding County5.5% Ohio5.3%	5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Paulding County10.2% Ohio8.4%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Paulding County11.0% Ohio10.1%	11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Paulding County19.6% Ohio13.4%	19.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Paulding County11.3% Ohio12.2%	11.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Paulding County4.4% Ohio10.5%	4.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Paulding County3.6% Ohio5.5%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Paulding County2.5% Ohio6.0%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Paulding County0.4% Ohio2.8%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Paulding County0.3% Ohio1.5%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Paulding County6.9% Ohio7.7%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Paulding County7.7% Ohio7.8%	7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Paulding County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 22.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 46.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.7%) 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 Paulding 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 Paulding 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 Paulding 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.

• Paulding County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Paulding County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Paulding County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Paulding County now leave 28 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 Paulding County has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Paulding County in the whole series.

How does Paulding County's commute time compare?

Metric	Paulding County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.1%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Paulding County is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.0% 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