Page County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Page County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Page County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 99 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Page County holds about 0.5% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Page County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,232 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)
Page County	11.9 min	23.8 min	99 hrs/yr	$3,080	272
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 11.9 minutes to get to work in Page County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 91% of counties in Iowa

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Page County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Walked: 3.3%
• Motorcycle: 1.6% unusually high
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Page County: 16.5 times more than the Iowa average (1.6% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Page County: 3.7 times less than the Iowa average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Page County: 3.1 times less than the Iowa average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Page County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Page 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	90.0%	5.3%	3.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	91.9%	4.1%	2.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.8%	4.3%	2.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.8%	3.7%	3.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	90.8%	3.2%	4.4%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	91.0%	3.2%	4.0%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	90.4%	3.3%	4.7%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	89.8%	3.5%	5.2%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	90.1%	4.0%	4.0%	0.2%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.5%	4.1%	4.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.9%	3.5%	4.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.2%	4.4%	4.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.3%	3.5%	3.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	4.6%	3.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.0%	4.4%	3.0%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	5.6%	3.3%	1.6%	0.4%	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 2010 at 91.9%. Overall it fell from 90.0% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Page County: its share of workers rose from 0.7% in 2009 to 1.6% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 5.2% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 3.3%.

Commute Start Times in Page County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Page County?

The bars show when commuters in Page 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 Page County4.9% Iowa5.2%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Page County5.5% Iowa4.1%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Page County8.5% Iowa5.7%	8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Page County9.2% Iowa8.2%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Page County10.2% Iowa11.2%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Page County13.8% Iowa15.1%	13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Page County17.2% Iowa15.6%	17.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Page County7.7% Iowa9.1%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Page County3.4% Iowa3.6%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Page County3.1% Iowa4.4%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Page County1.2% Iowa2.3%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Page County0.1% Iowa1.1%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Page County6.9% Iowa7.5%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Page County8.3% Iowa6.8%	8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Page County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.6% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Iowa: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.7%) 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 Page 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 Page 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 Page 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.

• Page County
• Iowa
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Page County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Page County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Page County now leave 12 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Page County's commute time compare?

Metric	Page County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.9 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	5.6%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Page County is 11.9 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau