Poweshiek County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Poweshiek County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Poweshiek 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 5.1 minutes.

Poweshiek County holds about 0.6% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Poweshiek County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,228 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)
Poweshiek County	11.9 min	23.8 min	99 hrs/yr	$3,070	337
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.

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On average, it takes 11.9 minutes to get to work in Poweshiek County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% 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 14.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Poweshiek County

• Car: 72.7%
• Worked at Home: 14.0%
• Walked: 11.3% unusually high
• Bicycle: 1.9% unusually high
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Poweshiek County: 3.9 times more than the Iowa average (11.3% vs 2.9%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Poweshiek County: 48288259733.8 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Poweshiek County: 5.5 times more than the Iowa average (1.9% vs 0.3%).

Poweshiek County stands out for active commuting: 13.1% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.1 times the Iowa average of 3.2%.

Commute Mode Trends in Poweshiek County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Poweshiek 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	77.7%	11.2%	9.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	78.1%	11.0%	9.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	80.2%	9.6%	8.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	79.0%	11.2%	8.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	78.7%	10.2%	9.1%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	76.8%	10.8%	9.6%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	77.5%	7.8%	11.8%	2.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	77.7%	6.5%	12.8%	2.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	79.7%	4.2%	13.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	79.9%	4.6%	12.9%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	81.1%	4.3%	12.4%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	81.4%	4.3%	11.7%	1.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	78.0%	7.4%	11.8%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	76.1%	10.8%	9.8%	1.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	75.8%	10.9%	10.7%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.7%	14.0%	11.3%	1.9%	0.2%	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 peaked in 2020 at 81.4%. Overall it fell from 77.7% in 2009 to 72.7% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Poweshiek County: its share of workers rose from 11.2% in 2009 to 14.0% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 13.6% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 11.3%.

Commute Start Times in Poweshiek County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Poweshiek County?

The bars show when commuters in Poweshiek 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 Poweshiek County5.8% Iowa5.2%	5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Poweshiek County4.3% Iowa4.1%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Poweshiek County5.2% Iowa5.7%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Poweshiek County6.2% Iowa8.2%	6.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Poweshiek County11.8% Iowa11.2%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Poweshiek County14.0% Iowa15.1%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Poweshiek County15.7% Iowa15.6%	15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Poweshiek County9.5% Iowa9.1%	9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Poweshiek County3.3% Iowa3.6%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Poweshiek County6.4% Iowa4.4%	6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Poweshiek County2.4% Iowa2.3%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Poweshiek County2.0% Iowa1.1%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Poweshiek County5.8% Iowa7.5%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Poweshiek County7.6% Iowa6.8%	7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Poweshiek County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.6% across Iowa. Early starts are about as common as in Iowa: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Iowa's: 51.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Poweshiek 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 Poweshiek 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 Poweshiek 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Poweshiek County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Poweshiek County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Iowa, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Poweshiek County now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Poweshiek County's commute time compare?

Metric	Poweshiek 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	14.0%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	11.3%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

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

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 11.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau