Bettendorf Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bettendorf, Iowa: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Bettendorf: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bettendorf spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Bettendorf holds about 1.2% of Iowa's population and accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bettendorf would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,807 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)
Bettendorf	17.5 min	35.0 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,518	2,362
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.

Bettendorf Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Bettendorf. That's 22% 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 10.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bettendorf

Walking is unusually rare in Bettendorf: 4.5 times less than the Iowa average (0.6% vs 2.9%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Bettendorf: just 0.8%, 4.0 times below the Iowa average of 3.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Bettendorf, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bettendorf 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Other	Taxi
2009	94.0%	3.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	93.9%	3.7%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	93.7%	3.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2012	93.5%	4.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	93.8%	4.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	93.8%	4.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	94.0%	3.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2016	93.2%	4.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%
2017	93.0%	4.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	93.6%	4.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	93.2%	4.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%
2020	93.5%	4.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	91.6%	6.6%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	91.0%	7.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	88.0%	10.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	10.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bettendorf: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 7.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Bettendorf

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bettendorf?

The bars show when commuters in Bettendorf 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bettendorf is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are less common than in Iowa: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Iowa: 54.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.7%) 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 Bettendorf, 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 Bettendorf 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 Bettendorf 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bettendorf	Iowa	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bettendorf were on the road by 7:38 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Iowa followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bettendorf now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Bettendorf has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Bettendorf's commute time compare?

Metric	Bettendorf	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	10.8%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bettendorf is about the same as in Iowa.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bettendorf, Iowa.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Bettendorf, Iowa?

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,518 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Iowa commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Bettendorf, Iowa?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bettendorf, Iowa. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.