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Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lincoln County, 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 Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln 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 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Lincoln 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 Lincoln County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,720 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)
Lincoln County 16.6 min 33.3 min 139 hrs/yr $4,300 211
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Wichita County (7.0 min)
  2. Scott County (7.1 min)
  3. Greeley County (7.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Linn County (31.3 min)
  2. Miami County (30.8 min)
  3. Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Lincoln County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.6 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 26% 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 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lincoln County

  • Car: 85.2%
  • Worked at Home: 6.9%
  • Walked: 6.2%
  • Other: 1.5%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 30714162.5 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lincoln 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.

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 Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 89.7% 6.2% 2.5% 1.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 90.3% 5.4% 3.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 92.2% 4.6% 2.1% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 92.2% 4.1% 2.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 90.7% 3.9% 4.0% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 88.4% 4.9% 5.2% 0.4% 0.2% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 88.0% 5.3% 4.6% 0.5% 0.2% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 86.7% 5.3% 6.1% 0.3% 0.1% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 87.5% 5.1% 5.8% 0.5% 0.3% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 85.0% 9.3% 4.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 88.6% 8.7% 2.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 84.4% 10.5% 5.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 83.2% 10.7% 5.0% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 84.6% 9.7% 4.5% 0.9% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 87.2% 5.9% 5.4% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 85.2% 6.9% 6.2% 1.5% 0.2% 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 2011 at 92.2% and lowest in 2021 at 83.2%. Overall it fell from 89.7% in 2009 to 85.2% in 2024, down 4.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Lincoln County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 6.2% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home peaked at 10.7% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 6.9%.

Commute Start Times in Lincoln County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln County?

The bars show when commuters in Lincoln 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
2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
21.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lincoln County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 14.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 60.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.4%) 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Lincoln County Kansas United States
2009 7:24 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:24 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:24 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:27 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:24 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:35 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:30 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:27 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lincoln County now leave 11 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 Lincoln County has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric Lincoln County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.6 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 6.9% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 6.2% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is about the same as in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 6.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lincoln County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Lincoln County, KS is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,923 residents against a local median of 6,360. Lincoln County, KS's one-way commute, at 16.6 min, runs 35% above the 12.4 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 11.6 min on one-way commute, so Lincoln County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Lincoln County, KS has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Lincoln County, KS 2,923 16.6 min #5/6 6.9% #5/6 7:27 AM #2/6
Mitchell County, KS 5,779 8.8 min 8.3% 7:48 AM
Ellsworth County, KS 6,360 12.4 min 7.4% 7:23 AM
Ottawa County, KS 5,819 20.4 min 7.7% 7:29 AM
Russell County, KS 6,679 8.8 min 8.1% 7:29 AM
Saline County, KS 53,668 12.9 min 6.8% 7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lincoln County, Kansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Lincoln County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 139 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,300 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Lincoln County, Kansas?

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

How common is public transit use in Lincoln County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Kansas?

Among counties in Kansas, the shortest average commutes are in Wichita County (7.0 min), Scott County (7.1 min), Greeley County (7.2 min). The longest are in Linn County (31.3 min), Miami County (30.8 min), Jefferson County (30.3 min).