Miami County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Miami County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Miami County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 79% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 13.5 minutes.

Miami County holds about 1.2% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 2.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Miami County would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,179 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)
Miami County	30.8 min	61.5 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,948	1,158
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

Compare commute times among different counties

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On average, it takes 30.8 minutes to get to work in Miami County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Miami County

• Car: 84.2%
• Worked at Home: 14.1%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Other: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Miami County, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Miami County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Miami 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.0%	4.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	92.5%	4.2%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	92.9%	3.8%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	93.9%	3.1%	1.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	93.3%	3.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	93.1%	4.3%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	92.9%	5.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	92.3%	5.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2017	90.5%	6.8%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2018	90.4%	7.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%
2019	90.4%	7.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	89.6%	8.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	87.9%	10.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	87.1%	11.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.6%	12.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.2%	14.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2012 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 93.0% in 2009 to 84.2% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Miami County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 14.1% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 1.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Miami County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Miami County?

The bars show when commuters in Miami 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 Miami County6.9% Kansas4.7%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Miami County5.0% Kansas3.5%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Miami County7.2% Kansas5.2%	7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Miami County10.0% Kansas7.6%	10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Miami County10.6% Kansas10.3%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Miami County18.0% Kansas14.9%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Miami County11.4% Kansas16.8%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Miami County12.6% Kansas10.4%	12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Miami County3.5% Kansas4.5%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Miami County3.2% Kansas5.0%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Miami County1.2% Kansas2.5%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Miami County0.9% Kansas1.1%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Miami County4.9% Kansas7.0%	4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Miami County4.6% Kansas6.6%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Miami County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Miami 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 Miami 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 Miami 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.

• Miami County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Miami County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Miami County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Kansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Miami County now leave 21 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Miami County's commute time compare?

Metric	Miami County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.1%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Miami County is 30.8 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau