Anderson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Anderson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Anderson County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Anderson County holds about 0.3% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Anderson County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,873 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)
Anderson County	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,682	259
Kansas	17.2 min	34.4 min	143 hrs/yr	$4,448	662
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: Kansas Counties

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On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Anderson County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% of counties in Kansas

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 11.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Anderson County

• Car: 85.9%
• Worked at Home: 11.5%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

Public transit is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.2% in Kansas.

Biking is essentially absent in Anderson County, versus 0.3% in Kansas.

Few people walk or bike to work in Anderson County: just 0.9%, 3.0 times below the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Anderson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Anderson 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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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.4%	5.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.2%	5.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.7%	6.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.8%	5.6%	2.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.9%	5.3%	1.4%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.0%	4.1%	2.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.0%	4.4%	2.3%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	90.4%	4.4%	1.7%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.4%	6.7%	1.4%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	84.8%	6.0%	4.0%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	87.2%	6.2%	1.9%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	87.0%	7.2%	2.2%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.7%	7.2%	2.1%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	85.8%	6.8%	3.0%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	85.8%	11.3%	1.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.9%	11.5%	1.7%	0.9%	0.0%	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 2018 at 84.8%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 85.9% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Anderson County: its share of workers rose from 5.9% in 2009 to 11.5% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 5.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Anderson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Anderson County?

The bars show when commuters in Anderson 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 Kansas for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Anderson County8.5% Kansas4.7%	8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Anderson County8.8% Kansas3.5%	8.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Anderson County6.0% Kansas5.2%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Anderson County6.9% Kansas7.6%	6.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Anderson County11.5% Kansas10.3%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Anderson County16.2% Kansas14.9%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Anderson County20.1% Kansas16.8%	20.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Anderson County6.4% Kansas10.4%	6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Anderson County2.6% Kansas4.5%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Anderson County3.2% Kansas5.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Anderson County1.7% Kansas2.5%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Anderson County0.5% Kansas1.1%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Anderson County3.4% Kansas7.0%	3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Anderson County4.0% Kansas6.6%	4.0%

Anderson County Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Anderson County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 23.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 54.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.8%) 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 Anderson 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 Anderson 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 Anderson County next to Kansas 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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• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Anderson County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Anderson County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Anderson County now leave 23 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 Anderson County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Anderson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Anderson County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 min	17.2 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	11.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Anderson County is 18.1 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau