Cloud County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cloud 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 Cloud County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cloud County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 95 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.

Cloud County holds about 0.3% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cloud County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,182 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)
Cloud County	11.4 min	22.9 min	95 hrs/yr	$2,956	302
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

Wichita County (7.0 min)
Scott County (7.1 min)
Greeley County (7.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas

Linn County (31.3 min)
Miami County (30.8 min)
Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Cloud County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.4 minutes to get to work in Cloud County. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cloud County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Cloud County: 219311058.6 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cloud County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cloud 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.8%	5.2%	5.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2010	86.1%	5.5%	6.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2011	85.1%	6.5%	6.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2012	87.5%	5.4%	5.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	87.1%	5.4%	5.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	85.5%	5.7%	6.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2015	88.2%	5.4%	3.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2016	89.0%	5.1%	3.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2017	89.3%	5.2%	3.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	91.0%	4.6%	2.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	91.8%	4.6%	2.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.6%	4.1%	2.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.0%	3.2%	3.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.7%	3.7%	3.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.4%	4.0%	3.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.1%	4.0%	3.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	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 92.6% and lowest in 2011 at 85.1%. Overall it rose from 87.8% in 2009 to 91.1% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.5% to 3.5% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 6.5% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 4.0%.

Commute Start Times in Cloud County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cloud County?

The bars show when commuters in Cloud 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		1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		21.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cloud County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 10.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 61.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Cloud 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 Cloud 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 Cloud 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	Cloud County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cloud County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cloud County now leave 6 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 Cloud County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Cloud County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cloud County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.4 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	4.0%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cloud County is 11.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Kansas. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cloud County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cloud County, KS is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,898 residents against a local median of 5,779. The measure that sets Cloud County, KS apart most is work from home: 4.0%, 52% below the local median of 8.2%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 11.4 min against a local median of 17.1 min, 33% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 33% below the local median it puts Cloud County, KS at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.5% on work from home, so Cloud County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cloud County, KS has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cloud County, KS	8,898	11.4 min #2/6	4.0% #5/6	7:32 AM #4/6
Republic County, KS	4,646	12.0 min	3.9%	7:36 AM
Ottawa County, KS	5,819	20.4 min	7.7%	7:29 AM
Clay County, KS	8,048	18.0 min	8.2%	7:22 AM
Mitchell County, KS	5,779	8.8 min	8.3%	7:48 AM
Washington County, KS	5,533	17.1 min	8.3%	7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cloud County, Kansas.

Is living in Cloud County, Kansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 95 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,956 at a typical national wage. That's 34% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Cloud County, Kansas?

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

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).