Cheyenne County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cheyenne County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cheyenne County spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 61 hours, about 2.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 58% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Cheyenne County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cheyenne County would save about 24 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $754 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)
Cheyenne County	7.3 min	14.6 min	61 hrs/yr	$1,885	195
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 7.3 minutes to get to work in Cheyenne County. That's 67% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cheyenne County

• Car: 79.1%
• Worked at Home: 18.5%
• Walked: 2.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cheyenne County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cheyenne 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	80.0%	10.9%	7.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.4%
2010	82.9%	11.2%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	82.5%	10.4%	6.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	80.6%	11.8%	6.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2013	84.0%	9.6%	5.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	84.4%	7.5%	7.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	83.9%	7.0%	8.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
2016	84.2%	6.2%	8.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.6%
2017	80.4%	7.4%	10.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	1.5%
2018	81.6%	6.1%	9.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	1.9%
2019	81.3%	8.4%	8.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	1.8%
2020	80.2%	13.7%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	1.5%
2021	80.8%	13.8%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.8%
2022	82.5%	14.3%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	78.0%	19.2%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	79.1%	18.5%	2.4%	0.0%	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 2014 at 84.4% and lowest in 2023 at 78.0%. Overall it fell from 80.0% in 2009 to 79.1% in 2024, down 0.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cheyenne County: its share of workers rose from 10.9% in 2009 to 18.5% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.3% to 2.4% of workers (down 4.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cheyenne County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cheyenne County?

The bars show when commuters in Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne County5.1% Kansas4.7%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Cheyenne County0.0% Kansas3.5%	0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Cheyenne County4.8% Kansas5.2%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Cheyenne County3.7% Kansas7.6%	3.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Cheyenne County1.9% Kansas10.3%	1.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Cheyenne County16.2% Kansas14.9%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Cheyenne County34.7% Kansas16.8%	34.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Cheyenne County16.8% Kansas10.4%	16.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Cheyenne County3.6% Kansas4.5%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Cheyenne County5.8% Kansas5.0%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Cheyenne County1.9% Kansas2.5%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Cheyenne County0.4% Kansas1.1%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Cheyenne County2.1% Kansas7.0%	2.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Cheyenne County3.0% Kansas6.6%	3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cheyenne County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 34.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 9.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 69.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.2%) 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 Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Cheyenne County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:56 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:55 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:57 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:53 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cheyenne County were on the road by 7:46 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:51 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cheyenne County now leave 8 minutes 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 Cheyenne County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Cheyenne County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cheyenne County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.3 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cheyenne County is 7.3 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau