Coffey County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Coffey County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coffey 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 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Coffey 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 Coffey County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,854 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)
Coffey County	17.9 min	35.9 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,634	130
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 17.9 minutes to get to work in Coffey County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 79% 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 4.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coffey County

• Car: 92.0%
• Worked at Home: 4.6%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Coffey County: 4.2 times more than the Kansas average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Coffey County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coffey 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
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.4%	4.2%	2.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.1%	5.4%	2.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.3%	6.1%	2.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	90.3%	5.8%	2.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	91.6%	5.5%	2.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	92.1%	4.7%	2.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	93.7%	3.7%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	93.3%	4.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.0%	4.1%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	93.0%	3.4%	2.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	92.9%	3.3%	2.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%
2020	92.5%	4.0%	2.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	93.6%	3.6%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	93.5%	3.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	93.0%	4.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.0%	4.6%	1.9%	0.7%	0.5%	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 2015 at 93.7% and lowest in 2011 at 90.3%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 92.4% in 2009 and 92.0% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.9% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 6.1% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 4.6%.

Commute Start Times in Coffey County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coffey County?

The bars show when commuters in Coffey 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 Coffey County7.1% Kansas4.7%	7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Coffey County4.0% Kansas3.5%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Coffey County5.0% Kansas5.2%	5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Coffey County9.6% Kansas7.6%	9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Coffey County12.2% Kansas10.3%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Coffey County14.6% Kansas14.9%	14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Coffey County16.0% Kansas16.8%	16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Coffey County7.3% Kansas10.4%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Coffey County4.1% Kansas4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Coffey County3.1% Kansas5.0%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Coffey County3.3% Kansas2.5%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Coffey County0.1% Kansas1.1%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Coffey County6.9% Kansas7.0%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Coffey County6.5% Kansas6.6%	6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Coffey County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kansas: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Coffey 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 Coffey 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 Coffey 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	Coffey County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:57 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coffey County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Coffey County now leave 13 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 Coffey County has moved 20 minutes later.

How does Coffey County's commute time compare?

Metric	Coffey County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 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	4.6%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Coffey County is 17.9 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau