Audubon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Audubon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Audubon County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Audubon County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,394 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)
Audubon County	13.5 min	27.0 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,486	232
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.

Commute Time Map: Iowa Counties

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On average, it takes 13.5 minutes to get to work in Audubon County. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Iowa

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 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Audubon County

• Car: 85.9%
• Worked at Home: 10.7%
• Walked: 2.8%
• Other: 0.4%
• 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 Audubon County, versus 0.1% in Iowa.

Public transit is unusually rare in Audubon County: 161304466.1 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Audubon County, versus 0.2% in Iowa.

Commute Mode Trends in Audubon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Audubon 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	76.2%	14.8%	7.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.8%	8.0%	6.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	84.4%	7.6%	7.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	83.6%	7.6%	8.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.2%	6.6%	8.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.1%	6.7%	5.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.1%	6.0%	5.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	88.3%	6.5%	3.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	90.7%	5.2%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	4.4%	1.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	5.1%	3.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	88.7%	8.0%	2.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	10.0%	2.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.1%	9.8%	3.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.3%	9.4%	3.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.9%	10.7%	2.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	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 2018 at 92.4%. Overall it rose from 76.2% in 2009 to 85.9% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.6% to 2.8% of workers (down 4.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Audubon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Audubon County?

The bars show when commuters in Audubon 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 Audubon County5.7% Iowa5.2%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Audubon County5.8% Iowa4.1%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Audubon County5.4% Iowa5.7%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Audubon County7.8% Iowa8.2%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Audubon County9.1% Iowa11.2%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Audubon County20.3% Iowa15.1%	20.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Audubon County18.1% Iowa15.6%	18.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Audubon County12.9% Iowa9.1%	12.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Audubon County1.9% Iowa3.6%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Audubon County3.3% Iowa4.4%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Audubon County1.4% Iowa2.3%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Audubon County0.7% Iowa1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Audubon County3.5% Iowa7.5%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Audubon County4.1% Iowa6.8%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Audubon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 16.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Iowa: 60.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.0%) 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 Audubon 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 Audubon 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 Audubon 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.

• Audubon County
• Iowa
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Audubon 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	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Audubon County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Iowa followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Audubon County now leave 14 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 Audubon County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Audubon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Audubon County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.5 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	10.7%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.8%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Audubon County is 13.5 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 2.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau