Ellsworth County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Ellsworth County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ellsworth County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 103 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Ellsworth County holds about 0.2% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ellsworth County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,277 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)
Ellsworth County	12.4 min	24.7 min	103 hrs/yr	$3,192	340
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.

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On average, it takes 12.4 minutes to get to work in Ellsworth County. That's 45% 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 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ellsworth County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 7.4%
• Walked: 4.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Other: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Ellsworth County, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Ellsworth County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ellsworth 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
• Motorcycle
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	87.1%	6.8%	4.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	86.6%	7.4%	4.1%	0.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	87.9%	6.7%	4.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	88.6%	6.4%	3.5%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	88.7%	5.2%	4.6%	0.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	88.1%	3.6%	5.0%	0.1%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	88.3%	4.3%	5.4%	0.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	88.7%	4.7%	4.0%	0.0%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	87.6%	4.8%	4.8%	0.0%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	89.3%	5.8%	3.1%	0.0%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.4%	6.1%	3.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.3%	7.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.4%	6.7%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.7%	6.8%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.1%	7.2%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	7.4%	4.4%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2021 at 90.4% and lowest in 2010 at 86.6%. Overall it rose from 87.1% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ellsworth County: its share of workers rose from 6.8% in 2009 to 7.4% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Ellsworth County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ellsworth County?

The bars show when commuters in Ellsworth 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 Ellsworth County4.4% Kansas4.7%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Ellsworth County8.3% Kansas3.5%	8.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Ellsworth County7.2% Kansas5.2%	7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Ellsworth County8.1% Kansas7.6%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Ellsworth County9.4% Kansas10.3%	9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Ellsworth County16.7% Kansas14.9%	16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Ellsworth County19.6% Kansas16.8%	19.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Ellsworth County7.6% Kansas10.4%	7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Ellsworth County2.0% Kansas4.5%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Ellsworth County2.5% Kansas5.0%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Ellsworth County0.5% Kansas2.5%	0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Ellsworth County1.5% Kansas1.1%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Ellsworth County7.7% Kansas7.0%	7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Ellsworth County4.6% Kansas6.6%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ellsworth County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 19.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 Ellsworth 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 Ellsworth 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 Ellsworth 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	Ellsworth County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ellsworth County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Ellsworth County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Ellsworth County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ellsworth County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.4 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	7.4%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	4.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ellsworth County is 12.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau