Coverage analysis
What 10 minutes cycling covers in Dayton.
Three-river confluence city where the Great Miami, Mad, and Stillwater valleys create irregular isochrone edges that radiate unevenly from downtown.
At 10 minutes by bike, the Dayton cycling isochrone captures the micro-mobility catchment — the area where cyclists make routine, repeat trips without deliberate trip planning. Unlike a flat radius circle, the real cycling-network polygon follows Dayton's actual bike lanes, greenways, and low-traffic streets — reaching further along protected corridors while contracting where motorways, rail yards, and rivers lack cycle crossings.
Coverage area at 10 minutes cycling: ≈ 4–8 km². Common applications for this zone include bike-to-work catchment mapping, micro-mobility service area design, cycling cafe and QSR proximity marketing.
The city-level population of 137,644 and a median household income of $37,500 give a sense of Dayton's economic density, but the figure that matters for cycling catchment analysis is the population inside the polygon — not the city as a whole. That number shifts significantly depending on whether your origin is in a dense urban core or a lower-density suburban corridor. Use the tool above to set your actual candidate location, then generate the isochrone to see the real cycling catchment.