Keokuk County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Keokuk 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 Keokuk County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Keokuk County spend about 50 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 210 hours, about 8.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% more time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 8.2 minutes.

Keokuk County holds about 0.2% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Keokuk County would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,598 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)
Keokuk County	25.1 min	50.3 min	210 hrs/yr	$6,496	329
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

Keokuk County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 25.1 minutes to get to work in Keokuk County. That's 12% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% of counties in Iowa

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Keokuk County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Keokuk County, versus 0.1% in Iowa.

Biking is unusually rare in Keokuk County: 5.5 times less than the Iowa average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Keokuk County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Keokuk 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle
2009	91.4%	4.5%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	91.9%	4.0%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2011	91.3%	4.9%	2.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2012	90.2%	6.0%	2.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	90.2%	5.1%	3.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	88.7%	5.9%	4.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	88.1%	6.7%	4.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2016	88.8%	5.1%	4.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%
2017	88.7%	5.4%	4.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%
2018	89.2%	5.3%	3.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	1.6%	0.1%
2019	89.6%	4.7%	3.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	1.6%	0.1%
2020	89.3%	5.7%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%
2021	87.6%	6.0%	5.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%
2022	89.2%	5.8%	4.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	89.0%	7.2%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	87.4%	8.7%	3.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2010 at 91.9%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 87.4% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Keokuk County: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 5.2% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 3.4%.

Commute Start Times in Keokuk County

Early BirdThe 3rd-earliest start among Iowa's 99 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:06 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Keokuk County?

The bars show when commuters in Keokuk 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		8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Keokuk County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.2% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 20.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Iowa: 43.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.6%) 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 Keokuk 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 Keokuk 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 Keokuk 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	Keokuk County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:14 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:00 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:01 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Keokuk County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:14 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Keokuk County now leave 32 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 Keokuk County has moved 10 minutes earlier.

How does Keokuk County's commute time compare?

Metric	Keokuk County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.1 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Keokuk County is 25.1 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Keokuk County, IA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Keokuk County, IA is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 7,337 residents against a local median of 22,021. Where Keokuk County, IA breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 58% above the local median of 15.9 min at 25.1 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves sit within 6.1 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Keokuk County, IA, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Keokuk County, IA has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Keokuk County, IA	7,337	25.1 min #6/6	8.7% #3/6	7:06 AM #1/6
Iowa County, IA	16,507	18.8 min	8.1%	7:14 AM
Jefferson County, IA	15,705	12.6 min	18.2%	7:52 AM
Wapello County, IA	35,362	13.9 min	5.5%	7:33 AM
Washington County, IA	22,560	18.2 min	9.8%	7:25 AM
Mahaska County, IA	22,021	15.9 min	7.5%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Keokuk County, Iowa.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 210 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,496 at a typical national wage. That's 48% more than the typical Iowa commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Keokuk County, Iowa. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 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).