Overland Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Overland Park, 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 Overland Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Overland Park spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Overland Park holds about 6.7% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 7.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Overland Park would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,925 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)
Overland Park	18.6 min	37.3 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,813	2,342
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.

Overland Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Overland Park. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Overland Park

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Overland Park: 4.1 times less than the Kansas average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Overland Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Overland Park 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.9%	5.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	91.8%	5.7%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	92.1%	5.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	92.1%	5.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	92.0%	5.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	92.3%	5.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	92.3%	5.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.8%	5.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	91.4%	6.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	90.9%	6.4%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	90.6%	7.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	86.4%	11.2%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	82.1%	15.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	78.5%	19.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	75.9%	22.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	73.4%	24.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 92.3%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 73.4% in 2024, down 18.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Overland Park: its share of workers rose from 5.6% in 2009 to 24.5% in 2024, up 18.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Overland Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Overland Park?

The bars show when commuters in Overland Park 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		2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

Overland Park Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Overland Park is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 6.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 57.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.8%) 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 Overland Park, 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 Overland Park 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 Overland Park 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	Overland Park	Kansas	United States
2009	7:50 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:50 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:50 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:51 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:53 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Overland Park were on the road by 7:53 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:50 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Overland Park now leave 15 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Overland Park has moved 2 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Overland Park in the whole series.

How does Overland Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Overland Park	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Overland Park is 18.6 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Overland Park, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Overland Park, KS is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 197,762 residents against a local median of 34,078. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Overland Park, KS an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 8% below the local median at 18.6 min against 20.2 min. Overland Park, KS has the lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Overland Park, KS	197,762	18.6 min #1/4	24.5% #2/4	7:53 AM #2/4
Leawood, KS	34,078	20.5 min	26.5%	8:05 AM
Prairie Village, KS	22,711	20.2 min	24.3%	8:02 AM
Olathe, KS	134,319	18.9 min	20.6%	7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Overland Park, Kansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Overland Park, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,813 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Overland Park, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Overland Park, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is Overland Park, Kansas a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 24.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Overland Park would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,925 at the same national wage assumption used above.