Osborne County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Osborne County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Osborne County spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 63 hours, about 2.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 56% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 9.6 minutes.

Osborne 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 Osborne County would save about 25 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $787 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)
Osborne County	7.6 min	15.2 min	63 hrs/yr	$1,967	147
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.

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On average, it takes 7.6 minutes to get to work in Osborne County. That's 66% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 95% of counties in Kansas

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 walking. About 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Osborne County

• Car: 85.8%
• Walked: 7.1% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.2%
• Bicycle: 1.8% unusually high
• Other: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually common in Osborne County: 3.1 times more than the Kansas average (7.1% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Osborne County: 3.3 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Osborne County: 6.4 times more than the Kansas average (1.8% vs 0.3%).

Osborne County stands out for active commuting: 8.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.4 times the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Osborne County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Osborne 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	85.0%	5.3%	8.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	83.4%	5.9%	9.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	84.2%	5.5%	9.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	87.1%	4.6%	7.5%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	87.0%	3.9%	7.7%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	88.6%	3.6%	6.6%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	88.8%	4.5%	5.4%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.3%	4.8%	4.9%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	87.8%	5.5%	4.4%	0.2%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.2%	5.5%	4.5%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	88.9%	4.6%	4.8%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	85.7%	6.1%	6.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	85.5%	6.7%	6.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	86.6%	5.9%	5.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	87.3%	6.1%	4.0%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.8%	7.1%	4.2%	1.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 88.9% and lowest in 2010 at 83.4%. Overall it rose from 85.0% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Osborne County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 8.8% to 4.2% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Osborne County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Osborne County?

The bars show when commuters in Osborne 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 Osborne County2.1% Kansas4.7%	2.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Osborne County3.9% Kansas3.5%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Osborne County5.8% Kansas5.2%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Osborne County6.7% Kansas7.6%	6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Osborne County8.2% Kansas10.3%	8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Osborne County19.8% Kansas14.9%	19.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Osborne County30.6% Kansas16.8%	30.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Osborne County11.2% Kansas10.4%	11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Osborne County3.1% Kansas4.5%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Osborne County2.6% Kansas5.0%	2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Osborne County0.6% Kansas2.5%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Osborne County0.2% Kansas1.1%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Osborne County1.5% Kansas7.0%	1.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Osborne County3.8% Kansas6.6%	3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Osborne County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 30.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 69.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 11 commuters (8.7%) 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 Osborne 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 Osborne 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 Osborne 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Osborne County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Osborne County were on the road by 7:34 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Osborne County now leave 4 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 Osborne County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Osborne County in the whole series.

How does Osborne County's commute time compare?

Metric	Osborne County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.6 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	4.2%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	7.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Osborne County is 7.6 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 7.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau