Crawford County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Crawford County, 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 Crawford County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Crawford County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 105 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Crawford County holds about 0.5% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Crawford County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,299 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)
Crawford County	12.6 min	25.1 min	105 hrs/yr	$3,247	417
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Iowa

Sioux County (10.1 min)
Union County (10.4 min)
Cass County (10.6 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Iowa

Monroe County (30.4 min)
Madison County (30.1 min)
Mills County (26.7 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Crawford County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 12.6 minutes to get to work in Crawford County. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 88% 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 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Crawford County

Biking is unusually rare in Crawford County: 20017159.5 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Crawford County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Crawford 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.

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	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	86.2%	9.5%	3.2%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.2%	7.3%	3.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.7%	6.3%	2.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.5%	5.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	89.3%	5.1%	3.4%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	89.0%	4.9%	2.5%	0.1%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.7%	5.1%	3.0%	0.3%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	86.7%	4.7%	3.9%	0.5%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.9%	4.1%	3.5%	0.0%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.3%	3.9%	2.5%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.6%	4.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	5.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.9%	6.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.2%	6.0%	2.4%	2.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.0%	6.1%	3.5%	2.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	6.4%	3.0%	1.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 92.6%. Overall it rose from 86.2% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Crawford County: its share of workers rose from 0.1% in 2009 to 1.8% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 9.5% to 6.4% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Crawford County

Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Iowa's 99 counties: the typical start is 21 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crawford County?

The bars show when commuters in Crawford 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		7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Crawford County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 26.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Iowa: 43.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.7%) 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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.

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

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Crawford County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:10 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Crawford County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 21 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Crawford County now leave 30 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 Crawford County has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Crawford County in the whole series.

How does Crawford County's commute time compare?

Metric	Crawford County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.6 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	6.4%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Crawford County is 12.6 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

1.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.7% in Iowa. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Crawford County, IA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Crawford County, IA is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 16,277 residents against a local median of 11,778. The measure that sets Crawford County, IA apart most is work from home: 6.4%, 34% below the local median of 9.6%.

The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Crawford County, IA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Crawford County, IA has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Crawford County, IA	16,277	12.6 min #3/6	6.4% #5/6	7:08 AM #1/6
Shelby County, IA	11,778	13.4 min	12.8%	7:24 AM
Ida County, IA	6,911	11.8 min	9.7%	7:14 AM
Sac County, IA	9,689	18.1 min	4.7%	7:23 AM
Carroll County, IA	20,594	10.8 min	7.3%	7:26 AM
Harrison County, IA	14,632	26.4 min	9.6%	7:12 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Crawford County, Iowa.

Is living in Crawford County, Iowa good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 105 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,247 at a typical national wage. That's 26% less than the typical Iowa commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Crawford County, Iowa?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Crawford County, 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.

Which counties in Iowa have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Iowa, the shortest average commutes are in Sioux County (10.1 min), Union County (10.4 min), Cass County (10.6 min). The longest are in Monroe County (30.4 min), Madison County (30.1 min), Mills County (26.7 min).