Leavenworth Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Leavenworth, 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 Leavenworth: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Leavenworth spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Leavenworth holds about 1.2% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Leavenworth would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,574 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)
Leavenworth	15.2 min	30.5 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,935	1,386
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.

Leavenworth Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.2 minutes to get to work in Leavenworth. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Leavenworth

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Leavenworth: 7.9 times more than the Kansas average (1.2% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually common in Leavenworth: 3.9 times more than the Kansas average (1.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Leavenworth, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Leavenworth 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	90.6%	2.1%	4.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%
2010	90.2%	2.5%	5.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%
2011	89.4%	3.2%	4.7%	0.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%
2012	89.3%	3.0%	4.8%	0.4%	1.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%
2013	90.8%	2.6%	4.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	91.2%	2.9%	4.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	2.4%	3.8%	0.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	91.6%	2.2%	3.6%	0.1%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.6%	2.2%	3.8%	0.1%	1.6%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2018	91.8%	2.2%	2.8%	0.0%	1.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2019	91.9%	2.4%	2.4%	0.0%	1.3%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	89.8%	4.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.8%	2.9%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	88.6%	6.0%	2.2%	0.4%	1.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	88.2%	7.3%	2.3%	0.3%	0.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	87.3%	7.4%	2.5%	0.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	86.5%	7.5%	2.2%	1.2%	1.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 91.9%. Overall it fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Leavenworth: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 7.5% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.7% to 2.2% of workers (down 2.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Leavenworth

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Leavenworth?

The bars show when commuters in Leavenworth 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		4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Leavenworth is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 54.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Leavenworth, 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 Leavenworth 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 Leavenworth 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	Leavenworth	Kansas	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Leavenworth were on the road by 7:33 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Leavenworth now leave 5 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 Leavenworth has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Leavenworth's commute time compare?

Metric	Leavenworth	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 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	7.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Leavenworth is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Leavenworth, Kansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Leavenworth, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 127 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,935 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Leavenworth, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Leavenworth, 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.