Recent data shows that residents of Hamilton County have seen an increase in travel time to work when compared to state and national values. Most notable is that the number of people who commute over 60 minutes to work has increased by 1,846 percent from 1980 to 2015.
In 1980, 1,199 people commuted over 60 minutes to work and that increased to 23,336 people in 2015. According to the data, Hamilton County is proportionally the 12th highest county in the United States for an increase in people commuting over 60 minutes to work. The information comes from uAutoInsurance.com which utilizes a data driven approach to evaluate auto insurance trends and topics. uAutoInsurance.com has a team of software engineers and analysts who examine local data sets including long term trends on auto insurance topics such as commute time, modes of transportation and other factors. In this case, the numbers come from the United States Census Bureau.
To go along with the increase of those with over a 60 minute commute time, the data reveals a 322.9 percent increase of people driving alone from 1980 to 2015.
The increase in commute time could be due to a population increase in the area and/or more job opportunities as well as more people commuting in and out of Indianapolis.