Montgomery County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Montgomery County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montgomery County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Montgomery County holds about 1.1% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montgomery County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,415 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)
Montgomery County	13.7 min	27.4 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,538	492
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 13.7 minutes to get to work in Montgomery County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montgomery County

• Car: 91.5%
• Worked at Home: 3.5% unusually low
• Walked: 3.3%
• Other: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Montgomery County: 3.4 times less than the Kansas average (3.5% vs 11.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in Montgomery County: 5.4 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Montgomery County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montgomery 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
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• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.6%	4.3%	3.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	91.2%	3.6%	3.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	90.8%	3.3%	4.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.7%	1.9%	4.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	91.1%	1.8%	4.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2014	91.3%	1.8%	4.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	91.3%	1.8%	5.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.4%	1.9%	4.7%	0.9%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.5%	2.6%	4.4%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	91.3%	2.9%	3.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	91.2%	2.9%	4.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.8%	2.9%	2.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.2%	2.9%	2.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.4%	3.4%	3.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	90.7%	3.3%	4.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.5%	3.5%	3.3%	1.3%	0.4%	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 was highest in 2021 at 93.2% and lowest in 2017 at 90.5%. Overall it rose from 90.6% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 4.3% to 3.5% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 5.1% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 3.3%.

Commute Start Times in Montgomery County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montgomery County?

The bars show when commuters in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County7.5% Kansas4.7%	7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Montgomery County3.9% Kansas3.5%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Montgomery County7.2% Kansas5.2%	7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Montgomery County6.1% Kansas7.6%	6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Montgomery County11.5% Kansas10.3%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Montgomery County16.6% Kansas14.9%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Montgomery County14.8% Kansas16.8%	14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Montgomery County8.0% Kansas10.4%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Montgomery County2.3% Kansas4.5%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Montgomery County3.1% Kansas5.0%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Montgomery County2.5% Kansas2.5%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Montgomery County0.6% Kansas1.1%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Montgomery County7.6% Kansas7.0%	7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Montgomery County8.5% Kansas6.6%	8.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montgomery County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 18.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Kansas's: 50.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.2%) 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Montgomery County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montgomery County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Kansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Montgomery County now leave 13 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 Montgomery County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Montgomery County's commute time compare?

Metric	Montgomery County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montgomery County is 13.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Kansas. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau