Commuting in Crawford 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 Crawford County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Crawford County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 107 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.
Crawford County holds about 1.3% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Crawford County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,329 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)
Crawford County
12.9 min
25.7 min
107 hrs/yr
$3,322
496
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.
On average, it takes
12.9
minutes to get to work in
Crawford County.
That's 43% 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 5.9% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Crawford County
Car:
90.2%
Worked at Home:
5.9%
Walked:
2.1%
Other:
1.2%
Bicycle:
0.5%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Crawford County: 18.7 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.4%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Crawford County, versus 0.2% in Kansas.
Commute Mode Trends in Crawford County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Crawford 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%
3.3%
3.2%
1.0%
1.0%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
92.1%
3.2%
2.9%
0.3%
1.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2011
92.5%
2.9%
2.9%
0.3%
1.0%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2012
93.5%
2.3%
2.6%
0.3%
0.8%
0.3%
0.1%
0.0%
2013
93.5%
2.0%
2.9%
0.4%
0.7%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2014
93.1%
2.8%
2.7%
0.3%
0.7%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
2015
93.3%
2.7%
2.5%
0.4%
0.5%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
2016
93.4%
2.5%
2.5%
0.6%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.1%
2017
92.3%
2.7%
3.2%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.2%
0.2%
2018
92.8%
2.9%
2.7%
0.6%
0.5%
0.4%
0.1%
0.1%
2019
93.3%
2.3%
2.9%
0.5%
0.5%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2020
93.4%
2.0%
2.7%
1.0%
0.5%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2021
93.1%
2.4%
2.9%
0.7%
0.8%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
92.2%
4.0%
2.4%
0.7%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
90.6%
5.2%
2.6%
0.9%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
90.2%
5.9%
2.1%
1.2%
0.5%
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 peaked in 2012 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Crawford County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 5.9% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 2.1% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Crawford County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crawford County?
The bars show when commuters in Crawford 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 AMCrawford County5.4%Kansas4.7%
5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMCrawford County3.0%Kansas3.5%
3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMCrawford County5.7%Kansas5.2%
5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMCrawford County5.5%Kansas7.6%
5.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMCrawford County9.0%Kansas10.3%
9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMCrawford County13.8%Kansas14.9%
13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMCrawford County21.6%Kansas16.8%
21.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMCrawford County7.1%Kansas10.4%
7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMCrawford County4.9%Kansas4.5%
4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMCrawford County4.3%Kansas5.0%
4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMCrawford County2.1%Kansas2.5%
2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMCrawford County0.5%Kansas1.1%
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMCrawford County8.2%Kansas7.0%
8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMCrawford County8.9%Kansas6.6%
8.9%
Crawford CountyKansasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Crawford County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are about as common as in Kansas: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 51.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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
Crawford County
Kansas
United States
2009
7:43 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:43 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:44 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:42 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:42 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:43 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:42 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:41 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:42 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:45 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:44 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:41 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Crawford County were on the road by 7:41 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Kansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Crawford County now leave 3 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Crawford County in the whole series.
How does Crawford County's commute time compare?
Metric
Crawford County
Kansas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
12.9 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
5.9%
11.8%
15.0%
Walked
2.1%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Crawford County is 12.9 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.
Crawford County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Crawford County, KS is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 39,008 residents against a local median of 15,656. The measure that sets Crawford County, KS apart most is work from home: 5.9%, 23% below the local median of 7.7%.
The counties themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so Crawford County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Crawford County, KS has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Crawford County, Kansas.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Crawford County, Kansas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 107 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,322 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Crawford County, Kansas?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Crawford 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 common is public transit use in Crawford 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).