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Commuting in Chase 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 Chase County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chase County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Chase 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 Chase County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,947 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)
Chase County 18.8 min 37.7 min 157 hrs/yr $4,868 383
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

Chase County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Chase County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of counties in Kansas

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 working from home. About 8.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chase County

  • Car: 85.2%
  • Worked at Home: 8.4%
  • Walked: 4.7%
  • Other: 1.7%
  • 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 Chase County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Chase County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chase 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 86.1% 5.3% 7.8% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 83.8% 6.0% 8.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 85.7% 5.5% 6.8% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 86.1% 5.4% 6.3% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2013 85.9% 4.9% 4.8% 2.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2014 86.3% 6.4% 4.0% 1.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2015 88.9% 6.3% 2.3% 0.7% 1.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2016 87.6% 6.0% 3.0% 2.1% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2%
2017 84.0% 8.3% 3.2% 3.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3%
2018 83.7% 9.0% 3.2% 3.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
2019 84.9% 8.7% 2.5% 3.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
2020 82.1% 10.0% 4.6% 3.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 82.3% 9.6% 4.0% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.6% 7.0% 4.1% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 83.4% 8.4% 5.8% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 85.2% 8.4% 4.7% 1.7% 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 was highest in 2015 at 88.9% and lowest in 2020 at 82.1%. Overall it fell from 86.1% in 2009 to 85.2% in 2024, down 0.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chase County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 8.4% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.8% to 4.7% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 1.9% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Chase County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chase County?

The bars show when commuters in Chase 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
6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
4.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
21.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chase County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 56.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.3%) 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 Chase 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 Chase 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 Chase 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 Chase County Kansas United States
2009 7:31 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:19 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:18 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:15 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:14 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:20 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:20 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:14 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:13 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:17 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:24 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chase County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Chase County now leave 14 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 Chase County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Chase County's commute time compare?

Metric Chase County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.8 min 17.2 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 8.4% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 4.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Chase County is 18.8 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 4.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Chase County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Chase County, KS is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,561 residents against a local median of 11,754. Nothing separates Chase County, KS sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 11% above the local median at 18.8 min against 16.9 min. Chase County, KS has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Chase County, KS 2,561 18.8 min #5/6 8.4% #3/6 7:24 AM #4/6
Morris County, KS 5,340 15.2 min 8.7% 7:23 AM
Lyon County, KS 32,186 11.3 min 6.4% 7:37 AM
Marion County, KS 11,754 16.9 min 8.2% 7:33 AM
Greenwood County, KS 5,919 17.4 min 6.2% 7:23 AM
Butler County, KS 68,284 22.3 min 9.0% 7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chase County, Kansas.

Is commuting expensive in Chase County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 157 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,868 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Chase County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Chase County, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Chase 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.

How do commute times compare across 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).