Osage County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Osage County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Osage County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 237 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 65% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 11.3 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 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,943 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	28.5 min	57.0 min	237 hrs/yr	$7,359	345
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 28.5 minutes to get to work in Osage County. That's 27% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 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 Osage County

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 8.6%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 1.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Osage County: 29.3 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Osage County: 10.8 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Osage County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Osage 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.4%	4.8%	3.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2010	90.0%	4.6%	3.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%
2011	90.7%	4.5%	2.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	1.2%
2012	92.4%	3.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	93.0%	4.0%	2.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.8%	3.7%	2.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.5%	3.4%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	93.3%	3.9%	2.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.2%	4.1%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.3%	5.0%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.3%	4.8%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.4%	6.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	5.5%	1.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	7.2%	1.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	7.9%	2.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.3%	8.6%	1.7%	1.3%	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 2015 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 88.3% in 2024, down 2.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Osage County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.3% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Osage County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Osage County?

The bars show when commuters in Osage 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 Osage County6.5% Kansas4.7%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Osage County4.7% Kansas3.5%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Osage County6.3% Kansas5.2%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Osage County13.3% Kansas7.6%	13.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Osage County12.2% Kansas10.3%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Osage County18.9% Kansas14.9%	18.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Osage County10.2% Kansas16.8%	10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Osage County7.5% Kansas10.4%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Osage County3.0% Kansas4.5%	3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Osage County3.3% Kansas5.0%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Osage County1.8% Kansas2.5%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Osage County1.1% Kansas1.1%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Osage County6.0% Kansas7.0%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Osage County5.2% Kansas6.6%	5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Osage County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kansas: 48.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Osage 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 Osage 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 Osage 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.

• Osage County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Osage County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Osage County were on the road by 7:11 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kansas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Osage County now leave 27 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Osage County's commute time compare?

Metric	Osage County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.6%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Osage County is 28.5 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau