Morris County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Morris County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morris County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Morris County holds about 0.2% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morris County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,573 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)
Morris County	15.2 min	30.4 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,933	280
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 15.2 minutes to get to work in Morris County. That's 32% 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 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morris County

• Car: 90.2%
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Morris County: 131789924.2 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Morris County: just 0.2%, 11.3 times below the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Morris County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morris 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
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Walked

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Walked
2009	92.3%	4.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.5%
2010	90.2%	4.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.6%
2011	90.1%	5.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.5%
2012	90.9%	4.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.6%
2013	87.7%	7.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	3.7%
2014	87.5%	6.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	4.9%
2015	86.5%	7.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	5.2%
2016	85.9%	7.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	5.3%
2017	85.2%	7.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	6.2%
2018	89.1%	5.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	4.0%
2019	90.3%	5.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	2.7%
2020	90.4%	6.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	2.0%
2021	90.9%	7.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	1.2%
2022	91.0%	7.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	90.8%	7.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	90.2%	8.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	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 bottomed out in 2017 at 85.2%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morris County: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 2.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Morris County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morris County?

The bars show when commuters in Morris 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 Morris County7.6% Kansas4.7%	7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Morris County3.3% Kansas3.5%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Morris County5.3% Kansas5.2%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Morris County7.6% Kansas7.6%	7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Morris County11.9% Kansas10.3%	11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Morris County18.7% Kansas14.9%	18.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Morris County19.8% Kansas16.8%	19.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Morris County8.1% Kansas10.4%	8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Morris County3.0% Kansas4.5%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Morris County3.4% Kansas5.0%	3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Morris County0.8% Kansas2.5%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Morris County3.0% Kansas1.1%	3.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Morris County3.0% Kansas7.0%	3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Morris County4.6% Kansas6.6%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morris County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 58.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Morris 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 Morris 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 Morris 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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• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Morris County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morris County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Morris County now leave 15 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 Morris County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Morris County's commute time compare?

Metric	Morris County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 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	8.7%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morris County is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau