Linn County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Linn County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Linn County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 261 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 82% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 14.1 minutes.

Linn County holds about 0.3% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Linn County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,238 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)
Linn County	31.3 min	62.7 min	261 hrs/yr	$8,096	308
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 31.3 minutes to get to work in Linn County. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Kansas

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Linn County

• Car: 87.9%
• Worked at Home: 8.1%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Linn County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Linn 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.8%	6.9%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	90.4%	5.8%	2.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.9%	5.5%	2.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.6%	5.0%	2.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	4.2%	1.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	93.9%	3.1%	2.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.9%	5.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.9%	4.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	3.5%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.8%	5.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.2%	6.6%	2.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.5%	6.0%	4.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.5%	6.2%	3.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	87.7%	6.8%	3.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	7.6%	3.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	8.1%	2.3%	1.1%	0.6%	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 2017 at 94.3% and lowest in 2023 at 86.6%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 2.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Linn County: its share of workers rose from 1.0% in 2009 to 2.3% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 4.6% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Linn County

• 🐦 Early BirdThe earliest start among Kansas's 105 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:54 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Linn County?

The bars show when commuters in Linn 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 Linn County12.2% Kansas4.7%	12.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Linn County3.8% Kansas3.5%	3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Linn County9.4% Kansas5.2%	9.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Linn County16.3% Kansas7.6%	16.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Linn County10.3% Kansas10.3%	10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Linn County14.4% Kansas14.9%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Linn County10.6% Kansas16.8%	10.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Linn County5.8% Kansas10.4%	5.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Linn County0.1% Kansas4.5%	0.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Linn County5.0% Kansas5.0%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Linn County1.1% Kansas2.5%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Linn County0.7% Kansas1.1%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Linn County5.0% Kansas7.0%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Linn County5.3% Kansas6.6%	5.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Linn County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.6% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 25.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kansas: 41.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Linn 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 Linn 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 Linn 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.

• Linn County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Linn County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:12 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:04 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:58 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:54 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:54 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	6:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:00 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:59 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:54 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Linn County were on the road by 6:54 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:12 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Linn County now leave 44 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Linn County's commute time compare?

Metric	Linn County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.3 min	17.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	8.1%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Linn County is 31.3 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Kansas. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau