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Mitchell County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mitchell County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 74 hours, about 3.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 8.4 minutes.

Mitchell County holds about 0.2% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mitchell County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $912 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)
Mitchell County 8.8 min 17.7 min 74 hrs/yr $2,280 336
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

Mitchell County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 8.8 minutes to get to work in Mitchell County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 82% of counties in Kansas

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 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mitchell County

  • Car: 84.1%
  • Worked at Home: 8.3%
  • Walked: 5.2%
  • Public Transportation: 2.2% unusually high
  • Other: 0.1%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Mitchell County: 5.7 times more than the Kansas average (2.2% vs 0.4%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Mitchell County: 239525551.5 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mitchell County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mitchell 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 Public Transportation Other Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 87.5% 5.7% 4.3% 0.0% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 90.5% 3.4% 3.9% 0.4% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 88.4% 5.1% 4.0% 0.6% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 88.3% 4.8% 4.2% 0.6% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2013 87.4% 4.8% 4.0% 0.8% 2.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 90.1% 3.9% 4.1% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2015 91.1% 3.6% 4.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0%
2016 90.8% 2.9% 4.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6%
2017 91.5% 2.3% 4.6% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2018 91.1% 1.9% 5.1% 0.0% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 1.1%
2019 89.9% 3.8% 5.3% 0.0% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 88.4% 5.4% 4.6% 0.0% 1.3% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 89.3% 5.3% 3.4% 0.0% 1.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 85.7% 6.6% 5.1% 2.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 84.9% 9.1% 4.2% 1.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.1% 8.3% 5.2% 2.2% 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 2017 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 87.5% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mitchell County: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.6% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Mitchell County

  • Hitting SnoozeThe biggest shift to later mornings among Kansas's 105 counties: the typical start is 19 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mitchell County?

The bars show when commuters in Mitchell 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
0.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
3.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
31.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
11.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mitchell County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 31.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 5.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 64.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.5%) 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 Mitchell 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 Mitchell 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 Mitchell 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 Mitchell County Kansas United States
2009 7:29 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:40 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:44 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:44 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:45 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:45 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:43 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:48 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mitchell County were on the road by 7:48 AM, 19 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Mitchell County now leave 10 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 Mitchell County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Mitchell County in the whole series.

How does Mitchell County's commute time compare?

Metric Mitchell County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 8.8 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 8.3% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 5.2% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 2.2% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Mitchell County is 8.8 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

2.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Kansas. 5.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Mitchell County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Mitchell County, KS is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 5,779 residents against a local median of 3,452. Where Mitchell County, KS breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 24% below the local median of 11.6 min at 8.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 8.3% against a local median of 6.9%, 21% above it. The counties themselves spread 12.8 min on one-way commute, so Mitchell County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Mitchell County, KS has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Mitchell County, KS 5,779 8.8 min #2/6 8.3% #1/6 7:48 AM #6/6
Lincoln County, KS 2,923 16.6 min 6.9% 7:27 AM
Jewell County, KS 2,916 11.6 min 7.9% 7:35 AM
Osborne County, KS 3,452 7.6 min 4.2% 7:34 AM
Cloud County, KS 8,898 11.4 min 4.0% 7:32 AM
Ottawa County, KS 5,819 20.4 min 7.7% 7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mitchell County, Kansas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Mitchell County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 74 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,280 at a typical national wage. That's 49% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Mitchell County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 2.2% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, making it a realistic option for many 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).