Taylor County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Taylor County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taylor County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Taylor 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 Taylor County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,902 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)
Taylor County	18.4 min	36.8 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,755	222
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 18.4 minutes to get to work in Taylor County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% of counties in Iowa

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taylor County

• Car: 91.6%
• Walked: 3.9%
• Worked at Home: 3.0% unusually low
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Taylor County: 9.5 times less than the Iowa average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Taylor County: 3.8 times less than the Iowa average (3.0% vs 11.3%).

Biking is essentially absent in Taylor County, versus 0.3% in Iowa.

Commute Mode Trends in Taylor County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Taylor 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	86.8%	3.8%	8.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	88.2%	3.1%	7.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2011	88.2%	3.6%	6.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2012	89.1%	3.3%	6.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	90.8%	3.2%	4.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	92.1%	3.0%	3.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	90.5%	3.3%	4.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	90.8%	3.4%	4.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	90.9%	3.6%	4.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	89.5%	3.5%	4.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	89.6%	2.5%	5.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.6%	2.2%	4.8%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.9%	2.5%	4.2%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	91.8%	2.8%	4.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	92.4%	3.2%	3.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	3.9%	3.0%	1.5%	0.1%	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 2023 at 92.4%. Overall it rose from 86.8% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 8.2% to 3.0% of workers (down 5.2 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Taylor County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taylor County?

The bars show when commuters in Taylor 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 Taylor County5.5% Iowa5.2%	5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Taylor County7.8% Iowa4.1%	7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Taylor County6.5% Iowa5.7%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Taylor County11.3% Iowa8.2%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Taylor County7.7% Iowa11.2%	7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Taylor County14.6% Iowa15.1%	14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Taylor County13.7% Iowa15.6%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Taylor County7.7% Iowa9.1%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Taylor County1.4% Iowa3.6%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Taylor County4.6% Iowa4.4%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Taylor County1.6% Iowa2.3%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Taylor County0.0% Iowa1.1%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Taylor County8.8% Iowa7.5%	8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Taylor County8.5% Iowa6.8%	8.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Taylor County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Iowa. Early starts are more common than in Iowa: 19.9% 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 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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.

• Taylor County
• Iowa
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Taylor County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taylor County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Taylor County now leave 15 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 Taylor County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Taylor County's commute time compare?

Metric	Taylor County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.0%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.9%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Taylor County is 18.4 minutes, longer than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau