Leawood Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Leawood, 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 Leawood: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Leawood spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Leawood holds about 1.2% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Leawood would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,116 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)
Leawood	20.5 min	41.0 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,290	2,373
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.

Leawood Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Leawood. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 working from home. About 26.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Leawood

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

Walking is unusually rare in Leawood: 5.3 times less than the Kansas average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Leawood: 3.7 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is essentially absent in Leawood, versus 0.3% in Kansas.

Few people walk or bike to work in Leawood: just 0.4%, 5.9 times below the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Leawood, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Leawood 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.1%	7.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.0%	8.9%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	89.3%	9.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.6%	8.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	90.6%	8.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.0%	7.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.7%	8.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	89.4%	9.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	88.0%	10.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.6%	10.5%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.6%	11.3%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	83.6%	14.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.9%	17.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	76.9%	20.8%	1.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	75.3%	23.3%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.3%	26.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2014 at 91.0%. Overall it fell from 90.1% in 2009 to 72.3% in 2024, down 17.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Leawood: its share of workers rose from 7.9% in 2009 to 26.5% in 2024, up 18.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Leawood

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Leawood?

The bars show when commuters in Leawood 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		0.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		0.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		3.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		20.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		19.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		10.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Leawood is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 1.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 61.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Leawood, 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 Leawood 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 Leawood 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	Leawood	Kansas	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:53 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:53 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:53 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:52 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:52 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:52 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:58 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Leawood were on the road by 8:05 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:52 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Leawood now leave 27 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 Leawood has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Leawood in the whole series.

How does Leawood's commute time compare?

Metric	Leawood	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	26.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Leawood is 20.5 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Leawood, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Leawood, KS is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 34,078 residents against a local median of 26,526. Leawood, KS sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 9% above the local median at 26.5% against 24.3%. Leawood, KS has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Leawood, KS	34,078	20.5 min #3/4	26.5% #1/4	8:05 AM #4/4
Overland Park, KS	197,762	18.6 min	24.5%	7:53 AM
Prairie Village, KS	22,711	20.2 min	24.3%	8:02 AM
Grandview, MO	26,526	22.2 min	16.2%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Leawood, Kansas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,290 at a typical national wage. That's 19% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Leawood, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Leawood, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Leawood, Kansas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 26.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Leawood would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,116 at the same national wage assumption used above.