Lane County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lane County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lane County spend about 16 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 69 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Lane County holds about 0.0% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lane County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $850 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)
Lane County	8.2 min	16.4 min	69 hrs/yr	$2,125	74
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 8.2 minutes to get to work in Lane County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% of counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lane County

• Car: 81.4%
• Walked: 9.2% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Other: 0.8%
• 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 Lane County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

Walking is unusually common in Lane County: 4.0 times more than the Kansas average (9.2% vs 2.3%).

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

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

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

Lane County stands out for active commuting: 9.2% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.5 times the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lane County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lane 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Other
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.4%	5.4%	8.9%	2.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2010	80.8%	5.9%	7.9%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	1.4%
2011	84.7%	5.0%	7.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%
2012	83.2%	5.3%	8.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	86.6%	4.5%	7.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2014	85.2%	6.2%	6.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.4%
2015	91.3%	4.1%	4.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.4%	3.3%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	91.7%	3.8%	3.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	89.3%	5.1%	4.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	87.1%	4.8%	6.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.0%	4.3%	7.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.1%	4.4%	6.5%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.6%	8.3%	9.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	77.9%	11.1%	10.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.4%	9.2%	8.7%	0.8%	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 was highest in 2016 at 92.4% and lowest in 2023 at 77.9%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 81.4% in 2009 and 81.4% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Lane County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 9.2% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 11.1% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 9.2%.

Commute Start Times in Lane County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lane County?

The bars show when commuters in Lane 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 Lane County6.5% Kansas4.7%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lane County0.2% Kansas3.5%	0.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lane County4.8% Kansas5.2%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lane County5.4% Kansas7.6%	5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lane County6.6% Kansas10.3%	6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lane County12.9% Kansas14.9%	12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lane County29.3% Kansas16.8%	29.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lane County14.1% Kansas10.4%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lane County12.2% Kansas4.5%	12.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lane County3.4% Kansas5.0%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lane County0.0% Kansas2.5%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lane County0.0% Kansas1.1%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lane County0.5% Kansas7.0%	0.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lane County4.1% Kansas6.6%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lane County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 29.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 11.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 62.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 13 commuters (8.0%) 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 Lane 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 Lane 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 Lane 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lane County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lane County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:37 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lane County now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Lane County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Lane County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lane County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	9.2%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lane County is 8.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 9.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau