Pawnee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pawnee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pawnee County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 97 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Pawnee County holds about 0.2% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pawnee County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,205 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)
Pawnee County	11.7 min	23.3 min	97 hrs/yr	$3,012	199
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 11.7 minutes to get to work in Pawnee County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 working from home. About 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pawnee County

• Car: 81.4%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Other: 2.2%
• Motorcycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Pawnee County: 7.1 times more than the Kansas average (0.9% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Pawnee County: 5.5 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pawnee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pawnee 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	85.4%	8.1%	5.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.7%	6.7%	3.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	83.1%	9.2%	3.8%	1.7%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	87.0%	6.6%	3.4%	1.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.7%	6.0%	2.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.0%	4.7%	5.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.4%	3.0%	4.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	93.2%	2.6%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2017	93.6%	2.1%	3.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	90.0%	3.0%	5.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2019	93.1%	3.3%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	87.6%	8.4%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	87.3%	7.8%	4.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	82.2%	11.4%	4.4%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	82.0%	11.5%	3.4%	2.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	81.4%	12.5%	2.9%	2.2%	0.9%	0.1%	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 2017 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 85.4% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pawnee County: its share of workers rose from 8.1% in 2009 to 12.5% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 2.9% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.5% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.1%.

Commute Start Times in Pawnee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pawnee County?

The bars show when commuters in Pawnee 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 Pawnee County2.8% Kansas4.7%	2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pawnee County5.4% Kansas3.5%	5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pawnee County2.1% Kansas5.2%	2.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pawnee County8.6% Kansas7.6%	8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pawnee County13.9% Kansas10.3%	13.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pawnee County16.0% Kansas14.9%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pawnee County19.7% Kansas16.8%	19.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pawnee County13.2% Kansas10.4%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pawnee County2.1% Kansas4.5%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pawnee County4.1% Kansas5.0%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pawnee County3.2% Kansas2.5%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pawnee County0.8% Kansas1.1%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pawnee County5.3% Kansas7.0%	5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pawnee County2.8% Kansas6.6%	2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pawnee County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 62.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.1%) 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 Pawnee 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 Pawnee 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 Pawnee 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	Pawnee County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pawnee County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:45 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pawnee County now leave 6 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 Pawnee County has moved 8 minutes earlier.

How does Pawnee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pawnee County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.7 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	12.5%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pawnee County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau