Commuting in Jasper 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 Jasper County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Jasper County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.
Jasper County holds about 1.2% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Jasper County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,219 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)
Jasper County
21.5 min
43.0 min
179 hrs/yr
$5,548
349
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.
On average, it takes
21.5
minutes to get to work in
Jasper County.
That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 88% of counties in Iowa
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.6% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Jasper County
Car:
86.1%
Worked at Home:
10.6%
Walked:
1.9%
Other:
0.6%
Bicycle:
0.5%
Taxi:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Jasper County: 15.2 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.7%).
Commute Mode Trends in Jasper County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Jasper 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
Other
Bicycle
Taxi
Motorcycle
Public Transportation
2009
91.5%
4.7%
2.3%
0.6%
0.3%
0.1%
0.3%
0.1%
2010
91.2%
4.6%
2.3%
0.7%
0.4%
0.3%
0.4%
0.1%
2011
91.7%
4.5%
2.0%
0.8%
0.3%
0.3%
0.4%
0.1%
2012
90.6%
4.8%
2.6%
1.0%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.3%
2013
91.0%
4.7%
2.1%
1.1%
0.1%
0.2%
0.2%
0.5%
2014
91.0%
5.5%
1.6%
0.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.3%
0.6%
2015
90.9%
5.8%
2.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.1%
0.6%
2016
90.5%
5.9%
2.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
0.7%
2017
91.6%
5.1%
1.8%
0.4%
0.3%
0.0%
0.3%
0.6%
2018
90.5%
5.2%
2.9%
0.3%
0.2%
0.2%
0.3%
0.5%
2019
89.5%
4.9%
3.6%
0.7%
0.2%
0.4%
0.3%
0.4%
2020
89.6%
5.7%
3.1%
0.6%
0.1%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
2021
88.0%
7.0%
3.4%
0.8%
0.1%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
2022
86.8%
8.5%
3.1%
1.0%
0.0%
0.4%
0.2%
0.1%
2023
86.5%
9.4%
2.9%
1.0%
0.0%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
86.1%
10.6%
1.9%
0.6%
0.5%
0.2%
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 2011 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 86.1% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Jasper County: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 5.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking peaked at 3.6% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.9%.
Commute Start Times in Jasper County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jasper County?
The bars show when commuters in Jasper 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 AMJasper County6.1%Iowa5.2%
6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMJasper County5.7%Iowa4.1%
5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMJasper County6.0%Iowa5.7%
6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMJasper County10.5%Iowa8.2%
10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMJasper County12.3%Iowa11.2%
12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMJasper County14.9%Iowa15.1%
14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMJasper County12.0%Iowa15.6%
12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMJasper County8.4%Iowa9.1%
8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMJasper County2.6%Iowa3.6%
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMJasper County3.8%Iowa4.4%
3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMJasper County3.0%Iowa2.3%
3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMJasper County1.0%Iowa1.1%
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMJasper County6.2%Iowa7.5%
6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMJasper County7.6%Iowa6.8%
7.6%
Jasper CountyIowaSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Jasper County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 17.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Iowa: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Jasper 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 Jasper 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 Jasper 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
Jasper County
Iowa
United States
2009
7:23 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:22 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:23 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:27 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:23 AM
7:34 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:24 AM
7:33 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:23 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:22 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:20 AM
7:32 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:20 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:21 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:20 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:18 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:21 AM
7:31 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:24 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:19 AM
7:31 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Jasper County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Iowa followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Jasper 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 Jasper County has moved 2 minutes earlier.
How does Jasper County's commute time compare?
Metric
Jasper County
Iowa
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
21.5 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
10.6%
11.3%
15.0%
Walked
1.9%
2.9%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.7%
3.2%
The average commute time in Jasper County is 21.5 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.9% in Iowa.
Jasper County, IA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Jasper County, IA is typical in size for this group, 37,954 residents against a local median of 40,114, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Jasper County, IA breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 41% above the local median of 15.2 min at 21.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.
The counties themselves spread 6.6 min on one-way commute, so Jasper County, IA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Jasper County, IA has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Jasper County, Iowa.
Is commuting expensive in Jasper County, Iowa?
Commuters here spend an estimated 179 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,548 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Iowa commuter spends.
What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Jasper County, Iowa?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Jasper County, Iowa. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Jasper County, Iowa?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.7% in Iowa, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Iowa?
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).