Preble County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Preble County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Preble County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Preble 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 Preble County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,363 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)
Preble County	22.9 min	45.7 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,907	1,203
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 22.9 minutes to get to work in Preble County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% 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 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Preble County

• Car: 90.1%
• Worked at Home: 7.3%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Other: 0.5%
• 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 Preble County: 10.1 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Preble County: 6.8 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Preble County: 14.2 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Preble County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Preble 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
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.5%	2.5%	2.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	94.7%	2.2%	2.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	94.2%	2.3%	2.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	94.3%	2.6%	1.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	93.8%	2.8%	2.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.0%	2.5%	2.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.1%	3.1%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	93.5%	2.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.4%	3.0%	1.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.4%	3.5%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.1%	3.3%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.2%	3.7%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	5.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.8%	6.0%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.9%	6.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.1%	7.3%	2.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2010 at 94.7%. Overall it fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 90.1% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Preble County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Preble County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Preble County?

The bars show when commuters in Preble 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 Preble County6.5% Ohio5.2%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Preble County5.3% Ohio3.9%	5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Preble County7.0% Ohio5.3%	7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Preble County9.2% Ohio8.4%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Preble County11.9% Ohio10.1%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Preble County14.4% Ohio13.4%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Preble County11.0% Ohio12.2%	11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Preble County8.7% Ohio10.5%	8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Preble County3.0% Ohio5.5%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Preble County3.2% Ohio6.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Preble County2.3% Ohio2.8%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Preble County1.1% Ohio1.5%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Preble County7.8% Ohio7.7%	7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Preble County8.4% Ohio7.8%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Preble County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Preble 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 Preble 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 Preble 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.

• Preble County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Preble County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Preble County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Preble County now leave 17 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 Preble County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Preble County's commute time compare?

Metric	Preble County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 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	7.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Preble County is 22.9 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau