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Barber County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Barber County, Kansas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Barber County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Barber County spend about 20 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 84 hours, about 3.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Barber County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Barber County would save about 33 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,038 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)
Barber County 10.0 min 20.1 min 84 hrs/yr $2,596 176
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Wichita County (7.0 min)
  2. Scott County (7.1 min)
  3. Greeley County (7.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Linn County (31.3 min)
  2. Miami County (30.8 min)
  3. Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Barber County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 10.0 minutes to get to work in Barber County. That's 55% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 81% of counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Barber County

  • Car: 92.9%
  • Worked at Home: 3.4% unusually low
  • Walked: 2.7%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Barber County: 3.5 times less than the Kansas average (3.4% vs 11.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Barber County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Barber 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Bicycle Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 90.8% 6.0% 2.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 88.4% 7.5% 3.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 89.4% 6.7% 3.5% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 89.5% 6.4% 3.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 89.1% 6.8% 3.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 88.7% 6.4% 4.0% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 90.6% 5.6% 2.9% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2016 92.0% 3.6% 2.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2017 91.3% 4.8% 2.4% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 91.1% 4.7% 2.6% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 91.1% 4.1% 1.7% 1.3% 1.5% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2020 94.2% 2.7% 0.9% 0.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2021 93.7% 3.5% 1.5% 0.1% 1.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2022 93.8% 2.6% 2.0% 0.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0%
2023 93.5% 2.8% 1.9% 0.4% 0.8% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0%
2024 92.9% 3.4% 2.7% 0.7% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 94.2% and lowest in 2010 at 88.4%. Overall it rose from 90.8% in 2009 to 92.9% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Barber County: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 2.7% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.0% to 3.4% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 1.5% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Barber County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barber County?

The bars show when commuters in Barber 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
0.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
15.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
21.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
14.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
8.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Barber County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 5.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 66.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.2%) 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 Barber 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 Barber 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 Barber 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Barber County Kansas United States
2009 7:45 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:42 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:34 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:42 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:39 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Barber County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Barber County now leave 1 minute later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Barber County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Barber County's commute time compare?

Metric Barber County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 10.0 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 3.4% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 2.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Barber County is 10.0 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Barber County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Barber County, KS is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,069 residents against a local median of 5,696. The measure that sets Barber County, KS apart most is one-way commute: 10.0 min, 19% above the local median of 8.5 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 7.7 min on one-way commute, so Barber County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Barber County, KS has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Barber County, KS 4,069 10.0 min #4/6 3.4% #5/6 7:39 AM #3/6
Pratt County, KS 9,127 8.1 min 6.5% 7:44 AM
Woods County, OK 8,596 8.5 min 1.4% 7:46 AM
Comanche County, KS 1,729 8.1 min 3.6% 7:44 AM
Harper County, KS 5,400 12.2 min 5.0% 7:38 AM
Alfalfa County, OK 5,696 15.7 min 3.7% 7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Barber County, Kansas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Barber County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 84 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,596 at a typical national wage. That's 42% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Barber County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Barber County, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Barber County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Kansas?

Among counties in Kansas, the shortest average commutes are in Wichita County (7.0 min), Scott County (7.1 min), Greeley County (7.2 min). The longest are in Linn County (31.3 min), Miami County (30.8 min), Jefferson County (30.3 min).