Kearny County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kearny County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kearny County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Kearny County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kearny County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,694 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)
Kearny County	16.4 min	32.8 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,235	356
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

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On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Kearny County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kearny County

• Car: 83.2%
• Worked at Home: 8.9%
• Walked: 5.8%
• Other: 2.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Kearny County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.6%	3.6%	5.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.1%	3.5%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.0%	2.1%	2.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.5%	3.1%	3.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.6%	4.2%	4.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.3%	4.0%	7.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	89.8%	4.7%	5.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.4%	5.6%	4.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.1%	5.5%	3.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2018	84.5%	10.7%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2019	84.7%	10.6%	2.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2020	88.5%	8.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2021	86.4%	10.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2022	85.4%	10.8%	1.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	6.3%	2.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.2%	8.9%	5.8%	2.1%	0.0%	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 peaked in 2011 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 83.2% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kearny County: its share of workers rose from 3.6% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 10.8% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 8.9%.

Commute Start Times in Kearny County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kearny County?

The bars show when commuters in Kearny 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 Kearny County9.2% Kansas4.7%	9.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kearny County7.0% Kansas3.5%	7.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kearny County1.4% Kansas5.2%	1.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kearny County12.8% Kansas7.6%	12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kearny County14.1% Kansas10.3%	14.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kearny County13.6% Kansas14.9%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kearny County25.8% Kansas16.8%	25.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kearny County5.8% Kansas10.4%	5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kearny County0.5% Kansas4.5%	0.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kearny County0.8% Kansas5.0%	0.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kearny County0.0% Kansas2.5%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kearny County0.1% Kansas1.1%	0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kearny County3.7% Kansas7.0%	3.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kearny County5.2% Kansas6.6%	5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kearny County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 25.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 59.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (9.8%) 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 Kearny 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 Kearny 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 Kearny 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.

• Kearny County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Kearny County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 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	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:59 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kearny County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Kearny County now leave 26 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 Kearny County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Kearny County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kearny County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.9%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	5.8%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kearny County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 5.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau