Whitehall Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Whitehall, 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 Whitehall: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Whitehall spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Whitehall 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 Whitehall would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,252 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)
Whitehall	21.8 min	43.6 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,631	3,307
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.

Whitehall Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Whitehall. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Whitehall

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

Public transit is unusually common in Whitehall: 4.9 times more than the Ohio average (4.9% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Whitehall: 7.3 times more than the Ohio average (1.6% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Whitehall, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Whitehall 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.6%	1.2%	3.0%	0.0%	2.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	92.7%	1.1%	3.6%	0.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	91.9%	1.2%	4.7%	0.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	90.8%	1.3%	5.4%	0.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	90.9%	1.2%	5.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	90.5%	2.1%	4.9%	0.0%	1.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	90.4%	1.7%	4.6%	0.0%	2.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.7%	1.4%	3.4%	0.7%	2.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	88.3%	2.8%	3.2%	0.8%	3.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.4%	2.9%	3.0%	1.0%	3.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	87.7%	3.6%	3.6%	0.9%	3.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.7%	4.1%	3.0%	0.3%	2.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	84.7%	6.2%	4.3%	0.6%	2.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	85.0%	7.0%	4.6%	0.7%	1.0%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	83.2%	8.9%	5.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2024	79.5%	11.6%	4.9%	1.6%	1.2%	0.7%	0.4%	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 92.7%. Overall it fell from 91.6% in 2009 to 79.5% in 2024, down 12.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Whitehall: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 11.6% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking 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 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Whitehall

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Whitehall?

The bars show when commuters in Whitehall 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		11.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		15.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Whitehall is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 22.2% 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 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Whitehall, 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 Whitehall 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 Whitehall 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	Whitehall	Ohio	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Whitehall were on the road by 7:11 AM, 32 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Ohio, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Whitehall 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 Whitehall has moved 39 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Whitehall in the whole series.

How does Whitehall's commute time compare?

Metric	Whitehall	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	11.6%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.9%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Whitehall is 21.8 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

4.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Whitehall, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Whitehall, OH compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Whitehall, OH	20,074	21.8 min #2/3	11.6% #3/3	7:11 AM #1/3
Gahanna, OH	31,555	20.4 min	23.8%	7:56 AM
Reynoldsburg, OH	39,522	23.1 min	17.1%	7:41 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Whitehall, Ohio.

Is commuting expensive in Whitehall, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 182 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,631 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Whitehall, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Whitehall, 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.

How common is public transit use in Whitehall, Ohio?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 4.9% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, making it a realistic option for many workers.