Commuting in Dickinson 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 Dickinson County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Dickinson County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 175 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.
Dickinson County holds about 0.6% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Dickinson County would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,174 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)
Dickinson County
21.0 min
42.1 min
175 hrs/yr
$5,434
309
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
21.0
minutes to get to work in
Dickinson County.
That's 6% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Slower than 89% 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 5.7% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Dickinson County
Car:
89.1%
Worked at Home:
5.7%
Walked:
3.4%
Other:
0.7%
Bicycle:
0.6%
Public Transportation:
0.2%
Taxi:
0.2%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Dickinson County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.
Commute Mode Trends in Dickinson County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Dickinson 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
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
90.2%
4.6%
3.5%
0.8%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
0.5%
2010
89.2%
5.5%
3.5%
0.8%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.6%
2011
89.4%
5.1%
3.9%
0.9%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.5%
2012
89.8%
4.7%
4.1%
0.6%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.6%
2013
90.1%
4.5%
3.3%
1.0%
0.2%
0.2%
0.0%
0.7%
2014
91.1%
3.6%
3.7%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.6%
2015
91.4%
3.3%
3.7%
0.7%
0.0%
0.2%
0.0%
0.7%
2016
90.7%
3.9%
3.3%
1.0%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.8%
2017
89.9%
4.8%
2.8%
1.5%
0.1%
0.2%
0.0%
0.6%
2018
88.6%
5.7%
3.6%
1.5%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.4%
2019
88.4%
6.1%
3.0%
1.7%
0.1%
0.3%
0.0%
0.4%
2020
88.1%
6.2%
3.0%
1.8%
0.2%
0.4%
0.0%
0.3%
2021
87.4%
7.3%
3.3%
1.4%
0.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.2%
2022
85.6%
7.9%
4.4%
1.2%
0.6%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
2023
88.0%
6.0%
3.4%
1.3%
0.6%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2024
89.1%
5.7%
3.4%
0.7%
0.6%
0.2%
0.2%
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 91.4% and lowest in 2022 at 85.6%. Overall it fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Dickinson County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points.
Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).
Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.
Working from home peaked at 7.9% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 5.7%.
Commute Start Times in Dickinson County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dickinson County?
The bars show when commuters in Dickinson 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 AMDickinson County8.9%Kansas4.7%
8.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMDickinson County5.6%Kansas3.5%
5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMDickinson County4.1%Kansas5.2%
4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMDickinson County5.5%Kansas7.6%
5.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMDickinson County11.5%Kansas10.3%
11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMDickinson County22.2%Kansas14.9%
22.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMDickinson County19.6%Kansas16.8%
19.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMDickinson County8.4%Kansas10.4%
8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMDickinson County1.6%Kansas4.5%
1.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMDickinson County1.9%Kansas5.0%
1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMDickinson County1.7%Kansas2.5%
1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMDickinson County1.1%Kansas1.1%
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMDickinson County6.6%Kansas7.0%
6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMDickinson County1.2%Kansas6.6%
1.2%
Dickinson CountyKansasSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Dickinson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 18.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 61.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.6%) 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 Dickinson 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 Dickinson 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 Dickinson 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
Dickinson County
Kansas
United States
2009
7:28 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:21 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:16 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:17 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:18 AM
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:25 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:25 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:25 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:25 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:24 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:21 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:19 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:22 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:18 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Dickinson County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Dickinson County now leave 18 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 Dickinson County has moved 5 minutes earlier.
How does Dickinson County's commute time compare?
Metric
Dickinson County
Kansas
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
21.0 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
5.7%
11.8%
15.0%
Walked
3.4%
2.3%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.4%
3.2%
The average commute time in Dickinson County is 21.0 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.
Dickinson County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Dickinson County, KS is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,445 residents against a local median of 11,754. The measure that sets Dickinson County, KS apart most is one-way commute: 21.0 min, 34% above the local median of 15.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.
Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 5.7% against a local median of 8.2%, 30% below it. The counties themselves spread 5.0 min on one-way commute, so Dickinson County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Dickinson County, KS has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Dickinson County, Kansas.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Dickinson County, Kansas?
Commuters here spend an estimated 175 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,434 at a typical national wage. That's 22% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Dickinson County, Kansas?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Dickinson 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.
Which counties in Kansas have the fastest and slowest commutes?
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).