Pickaway County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pickaway County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pickaway County spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 227 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Pickaway County holds about 0.5% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pickaway County would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,816 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)
Pickaway County	27.3 min	54.5 min	227 hrs/yr	$7,041	1,467
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 27.3 minutes to get to work in Pickaway County. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 90% of counties in Ohio

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pickaway County

• Car: 85.0%
• Worked at Home: 13.5%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Pickaway County: 7.9 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Pickaway County: 6.4 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pickaway County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pickaway 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	93.4%	4.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	94.4%	3.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	94.1%	3.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	93.8%	3.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	94.0%	3.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	94.2%	3.3%	1.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	94.6%	3.3%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.4%	3.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	95.0%	2.8%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	94.7%	3.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	95.2%	2.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.4%	5.4%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.9%	7.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.9%	9.1%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.4%	11.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.0%	13.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2019 at 95.2%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 85.0% in 2024, down 8.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pickaway County: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 13.5% in 2024, up 8.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Pickaway County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pickaway County?

The bars show when commuters in Pickaway 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 Pickaway County7.0% Ohio5.2%	7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pickaway County5.4% Ohio3.9%	5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pickaway County6.0% Ohio5.3%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pickaway County15.8% Ohio8.4%	15.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pickaway County10.7% Ohio10.1%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pickaway County14.6% Ohio13.4%	14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pickaway County10.9% Ohio12.2%	10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pickaway County8.7% Ohio10.5%	8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pickaway County3.0% Ohio5.5%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pickaway County4.1% Ohio6.0%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pickaway County1.5% Ohio2.8%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pickaway County1.5% Ohio1.5%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pickaway County4.7% Ohio7.7%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pickaway County6.1% Ohio7.8%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pickaway County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 18.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.9%) 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 Pickaway 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 Pickaway 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 Pickaway 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.

• Pickaway County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pickaway County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:14 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 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 Pickaway County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pickaway County now leave 27 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 Pickaway County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Pickaway County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pickaway County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.3 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	13.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pickaway County is 27.3 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau