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Commuting in Morton 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 Morton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morton 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 125 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Morton County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morton County would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,555 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)
Morton County 15.0 min 30.1 min 125 hrs/yr $3,887 185
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

Morton County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.0 minutes to get to work in Morton County. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morton County

  • Car: 88.8%
  • Worked at Home: 8.6%
  • Walked: 2.2%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morton 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 Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 90.6% 2.1% 4.0% 2.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2010 93.0% 1.1% 3.7% 1.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2011 90.3% 1.8% 5.8% 1.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2012 91.9% 2.0% 5.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2013 90.9% 2.4% 6.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 91.0% 3.5% 5.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 89.5% 4.5% 5.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 87.4% 7.1% 4.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2017 84.8% 9.3% 3.9% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2%
2018 85.1% 9.4% 3.0% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2019 84.6% 10.6% 2.5% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2020 86.1% 10.4% 1.0% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2%
2021 86.6% 11.3% 0.6% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.6% 8.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 89.9% 7.5% 2.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 88.8% 8.6% 2.2% 0.4% 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 was highest in 2010 at 93.0% and lowest in 2019 at 84.6%. Overall it fell from 90.6% in 2009 to 88.8% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morton County: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 2.2% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 11.3% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 8.6%.

Commute Start Times in Morton County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Kansas's 105 counties: the typical start is 23 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morton County?

The bars show when commuters in Morton 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
1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
1.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
16.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
14.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
8.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
19.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
1.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
12.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morton County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 20.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kansas: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Morton 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 Morton 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 Morton 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 Morton County Kansas United States
2009 7:43 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:28 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:19 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:16 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:21 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:16 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:19 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:15 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:14 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:23 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:21 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morton County were on the road by 7:21 AM, 23 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Morton County now leave 17 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 Morton County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Morton County's commute time compare?

Metric Morton County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.0 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 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 8.6% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 2.2% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Morton County is 15.0 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morton County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morton County, KS is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,611 residents against a local median of 5,162. Morton County, KS's work from home, at 8.6%, runs 138% above the 3.6% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 15.0 min against a local median of 11.4 min, 32% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 32% above the local median it puts Morton County, KS at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.6% on work from home, so Morton County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morton County, KS has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Morton County, KS 2,611 15.0 min #5/6 8.6% #1/6 7:21 AM #3/6
Stanton County, KS 2,038 7.8 min 3.3% 7:10 AM
Stevens County, KS 5,162 8.2 min 3.6% 7:32 AM
Texas County, OK 20,773 12.3 min 3.3% 7:32 AM
Grant County, KS 7,229 11.4 min 6.1% 7:14 AM
Baca County, CO 1,363 16.0 min 7.9% 7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morton County, Kansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Morton County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 125 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,887 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Morton County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Morton County, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Morton County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).