Lenexa Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lenexa: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lenexa spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Lenexa holds about 1.9% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 2.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lenexa would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,903 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)
Lenexa	18.4 min	36.8 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,758	2,168
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.

Lenexa Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.4 minutes to get to work in Lenexa. That's 18% 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 22.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lenexa

• Car: 75.1%
• Worked at Home: 22.9%
• Walked: 1.1%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Lenexa: 5.4 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Lenexa: 3.7 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Lenexa: 4.6 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lenexa, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lenexa 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.8%	5.6%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.8%	5.5%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	92.0%	5.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	92.6%	5.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	92.8%	5.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.0%	5.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.9%	5.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.8%	5.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.0%	6.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.3%	6.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	91.0%	7.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	86.6%	11.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	83.1%	15.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	79.0%	18.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	77.6%	20.2%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	75.1%	22.9%	1.1%	0.6%	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 93.0%. Overall it fell from 91.8% in 2009 to 75.1% in 2024, down 16.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lenexa: its share of workers rose from 5.6% in 2009 to 22.9% in 2024, up 17.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lenexa

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lenexa?

The bars show when commuters in Lenexa 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 Lenexa3.3% Kansas4.7%	3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lenexa2.5% Kansas3.5%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lenexa2.5% Kansas5.2%	2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lenexa5.5% Kansas7.6%	5.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lenexa9.3% Kansas10.3%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lenexa17.3% Kansas14.9%	17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lenexa17.8% Kansas16.8%	17.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lenexa13.9% Kansas10.4%	13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lenexa5.3% Kansas4.5%	5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lenexa6.0% Kansas5.0%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lenexa2.0% Kansas2.5%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lenexa1.4% Kansas1.1%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lenexa6.6% Kansas7.0%	6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lenexa6.4% Kansas6.6%	6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lenexa is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 8.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 58.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Lenexa, 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 Lenexa 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 Lenexa 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.

• Lenexa
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lenexa	Kansas	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lenexa were on the road by 7:46 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:48 AM). Kansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Lenexa now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Lenexa's commute time compare?

Metric	Lenexa	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 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	22.9%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lenexa is 18.4 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau