Osage County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Osage County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Osage County spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 233 hours, about 9.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 62% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.3 minutes each way, a difference of 10.7 minutes.

Osage County holds about 0.5% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Osage County would save about 93 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,892 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)
Osage County	28.0 min	56.0 min	233 hrs/yr	$7,229	345
Kansas	17.3 min	34.6 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,466	662
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 28.0 minutes to get to work in Osage County. That's 25% longer than the 22.5-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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.9% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.9%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Osage County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Osage County: 9.8 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

How does Osage County's commute time compare?

Metric	Osage County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.0 min	17.3 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.9%	10.7%	13.4%
Walked	2.0%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.5%

The average commute time in Osage County is 28.0 minutes, longer than the 17.3 minutes in Kansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau