Phillips County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Phillips County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Phillips County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 102 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting.

That is 30% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Phillips 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 Phillips County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,259 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)
Phillips County	12.2 min	24.4 min	102 hrs/yr	$3,147	177
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 12.2 minutes to get to work in Phillips County. That's 46% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 4.9% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 91.6%
• Worked at Home: 4.9%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Other: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

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

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 0.3% in Kansas.

How does Phillips County's commute time compare?

Metric	Phillips County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.2 min	17.3 min	22.5 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	4.9%	10.7%	13.4%
Walked	2.0%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.4%	3.5%

The average commute time in Phillips County is 12.2 minutes, shorter than the 17.3 minutes in Kansas.

0.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Kansas. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau