Doniphan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Doniphan 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 Doniphan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Doniphan 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.

Doniphan 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 Doniphan County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,853 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)
Doniphan County	17.9 min	35.9 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,633	840
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

Doniphan County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.9 minutes to get to work in Doniphan County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% 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 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Doniphan County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Doniphan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Doniphan 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.6%	5.2%	3.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.7%	5.0%	3.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.9%	5.9%	4.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	88.2%	6.1%	4.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	87.6%	5.7%	4.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	87.9%	5.8%	4.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	87.3%	5.7%	5.0%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	88.1%	6.4%	4.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	87.4%	6.7%	4.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.9%	7.3%	4.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	88.7%	6.0%	3.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	88.5%	4.6%	4.4%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	87.8%	6.3%	4.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	87.3%	7.4%	3.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	88.5%	6.8%	3.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.0%	7.2%	4.8%	0.8%	0.2%	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 2010 at 90.7% and lowest in 2018 at 86.9%. Overall it fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Doniphan County: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Doniphan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Doniphan County?

The bars show when commuters in Doniphan 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		7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Doniphan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 22.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kansas: 47.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Doniphan 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 Doniphan 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 Doniphan 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	Doniphan County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Doniphan County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Doniphan County now leave 25 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 Doniphan County has moved 11 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Doniphan County in the whole series.

How does Doniphan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Doniphan County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 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	7.2%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Doniphan County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Doniphan County, KS is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 7,501 residents against a local median of 16,208. Doniphan County, KS sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 10% above the local median at 17.9 min against 16.2 min. Doniphan County, KS has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Doniphan County, KS	7,501	17.9 min #4/6	7.2% #4/6	7:13 AM #1/6
Atchison County, KS	16,208	16.2 min	7.5%	7:26 AM
Holt County, MO	4,240	17.9 min	8.0%	7:13 AM
Buchanan County, MO	83,567	13.8 min	7.3%	7:41 AM
Andrew County, MO	18,065	20.3 min	7.0%	7:19 AM
Brown County, KS	9,343	13.4 min	7.1%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Doniphan County, Kansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Doniphan County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 149 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,633 at a typical national wage. That's 4% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Doniphan County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Doniphan 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.

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).