Pocahontas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pocahontas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pocahontas County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 129 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.5 minutes.

Pocahontas County holds about 0.2% of Iowa's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pocahontas County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,595 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)
Pocahontas County	15.4 min	30.9 min	129 hrs/yr	$3,987	208
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 15.4 minutes to get to work in Pocahontas County. That's 31% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 5.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pocahontas County

• Car: 91.2%
• Worked at Home: 5.4%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Pocahontas County, versus 0.7% in Iowa.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pocahontas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pocahontas 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	84.4%	8.2%	5.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	83.3%	9.8%	4.2%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	84.6%	8.9%	3.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	83.3%	9.5%	4.7%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.5%	9.4%	4.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	84.1%	10.3%	4.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.0%	9.1%	5.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	83.4%	8.0%	6.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	82.7%	6.9%	7.9%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	84.1%	6.3%	7.3%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	84.3%	7.0%	6.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	86.9%	6.6%	4.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	86.7%	7.3%	4.4%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	88.9%	6.7%	3.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	89.5%	6.7%	2.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	91.2%	5.4%	1.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2017 at 82.7%. Overall it rose from 84.4% in 2009 to 91.2% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.0% to 1.9% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 10.3% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 5.4%.

Commute Start Times in Pocahontas County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pocahontas County?

The bars show when commuters in Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas County8.4% Iowa5.2%	8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pocahontas County3.9% Iowa4.1%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pocahontas County8.0% Iowa5.7%	8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pocahontas County8.5% Iowa8.2%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pocahontas County12.0% Iowa11.2%	12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pocahontas County19.7% Iowa15.1%	19.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pocahontas County11.5% Iowa15.6%	11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pocahontas County6.4% Iowa9.1%	6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pocahontas County3.0% Iowa3.6%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pocahontas County1.6% Iowa4.4%	1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pocahontas County4.9% Iowa2.3%	4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pocahontas County0.6% Iowa1.1%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pocahontas County8.2% Iowa7.5%	8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pocahontas County3.4% Iowa6.8%	3.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pocahontas County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 20.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Iowa's: 49.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas 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.

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• Iowa
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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pocahontas County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 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	7:21 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pocahontas County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Iowa followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pocahontas County now leave 24 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 Pocahontas County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Pocahontas County in the whole series.

How does Pocahontas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pocahontas County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.4 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	5.4%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pocahontas County is 15.4 minutes, shorter 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.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau