Appanoose County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Appanoose County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Appanoose County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 132 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Appanoose County holds about 0.4% of Iowa's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Appanoose County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,632 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)
Appanoose County	15.8 min	31.6 min	132 hrs/yr	$4,079	228
Iowa	17.0 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,382	606
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.

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On average, it takes 15.8 minutes to get to work in Appanoose County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 8.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Appanoose County

• Car: 86.8%
• Worked at Home: 8.5%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Bicycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Taxi: 0.7% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Other: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Appanoose County: 5.4 times more than the Iowa average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Appanoose County: 3.6 times less than the Iowa average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Appanoose County: 4.5 times more than the Iowa average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually common in Appanoose County: 3.4 times more than the Iowa average (1.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Appanoose County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Appanoose 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation
2009	86.4%	7.9%	3.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.3%
2010	87.9%	6.9%	4.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%
2011	87.1%	7.9%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%
2012	88.4%	6.6%	4.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2013	90.2%	5.1%	3.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%
2014	91.8%	5.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%
2015	91.1%	5.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%
2016	91.6%	4.7%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%
2017	91.9%	4.7%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%
2018	90.6%	5.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.4%
2019	92.1%	3.7%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.6%
2020	91.2%	4.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.2%
2021	92.3%	4.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%
2022	91.7%	5.2%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%
2023	89.8%	6.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.1%
2024	86.8%	8.5%	1.8%	1.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2021 at 92.3%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 86.4% in 2009 and 86.8% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Appanoose County: its share of workers rose from 0.1% in 2009 to 1.1% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 1.8% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Appanoose County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Appanoose County?

The bars show when commuters in Appanoose 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 Iowa for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Appanoose County8.0% Iowa5.2%	8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Appanoose County6.2% Iowa4.1%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Appanoose County8.0% Iowa5.7%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Appanoose County6.0% Iowa8.2%	6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Appanoose County13.2% Iowa11.2%	13.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Appanoose County13.9% Iowa15.1%	13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Appanoose County13.4% Iowa15.6%	13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Appanoose County6.8% Iowa9.1%	6.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Appanoose County3.3% Iowa3.6%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Appanoose County4.4% Iowa4.4%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Appanoose County0.9% Iowa2.3%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Appanoose County1.2% Iowa1.1%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Appanoose County7.0% Iowa7.5%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Appanoose County7.8% Iowa6.8%	7.8%

Appanoose County Iowa Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Appanoose County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 22.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Iowa: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Appanoose 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 Appanoose 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 Appanoose County next to Iowa 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Appanoose County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Appanoose County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Appanoose County now leave 19 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 Appanoose County has moved 15 minutes earlier.

How does Appanoose County's commute time compare?

Metric	Appanoose County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.8 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.5%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Appanoose County is 15.8 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau