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Commuting in Hutchinson, 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 Hutchinson: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hutchinson 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 4.8 minutes.

Hutchinson holds about 1.2% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hutchinson would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,279 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)
Hutchinson 12.4 min 24.8 min 103 hrs/yr $3,198 1,985
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.

Hutchinson Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.4 minutes to get to work in Hutchinson. 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 4.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hutchinson

  • Car: 92.1%
  • Worked at Home: 4.8%
  • Walked: 1.0%
  • Other: 1.0%
  • Bicycle: 0.5%
  • Taxi: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Hutchinson: 21.6 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hutchinson, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hutchinson 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 Taxi Motorcycle Public Transportation
2009 91.9% 4.1% 1.7% 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 1.1% 0.3%
2010 92.4% 4.6% 1.2% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.5% 0.4%
2011 93.1% 4.2% 1.0% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.3%
2012 92.9% 3.6% 1.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
2013 93.2% 3.0% 1.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.8% 0.6%
2014 93.3% 3.2% 1.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.1% 0.5% 0.8%
2015 92.8% 3.5% 1.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.1% 0.5% 0.8%
2016 91.2% 3.1% 2.7% 0.6% 0.4% 0.1% 1.0% 0.8%
2017 92.0% 2.6% 3.0% 0.6% 0.7% 0.1% 0.7% 0.3%
2018 91.7% 2.8% 2.5% 0.8% 1.2% 0.1% 0.4% 0.5%
2019 91.6% 1.9% 3.1% 1.1% 1.4% 0.1% 0.5% 0.4%
2020 92.9% 1.6% 2.2% 0.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.6% 0.4%
2021 91.9% 3.1% 2.0% 0.9% 1.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4%
2022 91.6% 4.2% 0.7% 1.4% 1.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3%
2023 92.7% 4.0% 0.7% 1.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%
2024 92.1% 4.8% 1.0% 1.0% 0.5% 0.4% 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 2014 at 93.3% and lowest in 2016 at 91.2%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.9% in 2009 and 92.1% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hutchinson: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 4.8% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.1% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in Hutchinson

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hutchinson?

The bars show when commuters in Hutchinson 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
6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
22.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hutchinson is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 17.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 51.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Hutchinson, 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 Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson 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 Hutchinson Kansas United States
2009 7:47 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:46 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:46 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:45 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:43 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:42 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:42 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:40 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:40 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:37 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hutchinson were on the road by 7:36 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:47 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hutchinson now leave 2 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 Hutchinson has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Hutchinson in the whole series.

How does Hutchinson's commute time compare?

Metric Hutchinson 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 4.8% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 1.0% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Hutchinson 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. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hutchinson, Kansas.

Is living in Hutchinson, Kansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 103 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,198 at a typical national wage. That's 28% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Hutchinson, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Hutchinson, 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.

Do people use public transit in Hutchinson, 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.