Wyandot County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wyandot County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wyandot County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Wyandot County holds about 0.2% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wyandot County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,885 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)
Wyandot County	18.2 min	36.5 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,713	505
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 18.2 minutes to get to work in Wyandot County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% 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 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wyandot County

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.8%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Wyandot County: 8.2 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Wyandot County, versus 0.2% in Ohio.

Commute Mode Trends in Wyandot County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	4.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	3.6%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.2%	3.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	94.6%	2.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	94.5%	2.5%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	94.1%	2.5%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	94.4%	2.2%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	94.6%	2.5%	1.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.8%	2.8%	2.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	93.0%	3.2%	2.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	93.5%	2.9%	2.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.7%	3.5%	3.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	92.9%	3.2%	3.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	92.5%	4.2%	2.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.7%	4.2%	2.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	4.8%	2.9%	0.6%	0.2%	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 2012 at 94.6%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Wyandot County: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 2.9% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Wyandot County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wyandot County?

The bars show when commuters in Wyandot 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 Wyandot County5.2% Ohio5.2%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wyandot County7.6% Ohio3.9%	7.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wyandot County8.1% Ohio5.3%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wyandot County10.0% Ohio8.4%	10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wyandot County10.9% Ohio10.1%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wyandot County15.2% Ohio13.4%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wyandot County11.5% Ohio12.2%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wyandot County8.0% Ohio10.5%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wyandot County2.1% Ohio5.5%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wyandot County3.2% Ohio6.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wyandot County1.5% Ohio2.8%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wyandot County0.3% Ohio1.5%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wyandot County6.4% Ohio7.7%	6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wyandot County10.0% Ohio7.8%	10.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wyandot County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 20.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 45.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Wyandot 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 Wyandot 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 Wyandot 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.

• Wyandot County
• Ohio
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wyandot County	Ohio	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wyandot County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 11 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 Wyandot County now leave 22 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wyandot County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wyandot County	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	4.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wyandot County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau