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Phillips County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Phillips County, 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 Phillips County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Phillips County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 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 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,312 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 12.7 min 25.4 min 106 hrs/yr $3,280 177
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Wichita County (7.0 min)
  2. Scott County (7.1 min)
  3. Greeley County (7.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas
  1. Linn County (31.3 min)
  2. Miami County (30.8 min)
  3. Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Phillips County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 12.7 minutes to get to work in Phillips County. That's 43% 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 7.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Phillips County

  • Car: 88.4%
  • Worked at Home: 7.9%
  • Walked: 1.7%
  • Other: 1.4%
  • Public Transportation: 0.6%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Phillips County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Phillips 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.

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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 88.1% 6.9% 4.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2010 90.5% 4.4% 4.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2011 88.6% 6.2% 3.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2012 87.9% 6.4% 4.2% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2013 86.5% 7.0% 4.9% 0.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2014 86.4% 6.7% 5.3% 0.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2015 85.7% 7.1% 6.3% 0.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 88.3% 5.9% 5.4% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 88.0% 6.0% 5.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 90.9% 4.2% 4.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 92.6% 3.7% 3.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 92.2% 5.1% 2.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 90.8% 5.9% 2.4% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 91.5% 5.4% 2.3% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 91.6% 4.9% 2.0% 1.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 88.4% 7.9% 1.7% 1.4% 0.6% 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 was highest in 2019 at 92.6% and lowest in 2015 at 85.7%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 88.1% in 2009 and 88.4% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Phillips County: its share of workers rose from 6.9% in 2009 to 7.9% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.1% to 1.7% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Phillips County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Phillips County?

The bars show when commuters in Phillips 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
1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
22.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
13.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
5.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Phillips County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 8.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 63.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Phillips County Kansas United States
2009 7:42 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:42 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:41 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:42 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:40 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:41 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:39 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:37 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Phillips County were on the road by 7:41 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Kansas, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Phillips County now leave 3 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 Phillips County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Phillips County's commute time compare?

Metric Phillips County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 12.7 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 7.9% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 1.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.6% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Phillips County is 12.7 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Phillips County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Phillips County, KS is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,813 residents against a local median of 3,552. The measure that sets Phillips County, KS apart most is work from home: 7.9%, 36% above the local median of 5.8%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 12.7 min against a local median of 10.6 min, 19% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 19% above the local median it puts Phillips County, KS at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 12.9% on work from home, so Phillips County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Phillips County, KS has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Phillips County, KS 4,813 12.7 min #5/6 7.9% #3/6 7:41 AM #3/6
Harlan County, NE 2,847 12.4 min 8.5% 7:50 AM
Rooks County, KS 4,813 10.6 min 5.8% 7:41 AM
Franklin County, NE 2,846 15.4 min 4.3% 7:33 AM
Norton County, KS 5,359 8.0 min 16.9% 7:35 AM
Smith County, KS 3,552 8.6 min 3.9% 7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Phillips County, Kansas.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Phillips County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 106 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,280 at a typical national wage. That's 26% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Phillips County, Kansas?

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

Which counties in Kansas have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Kansas, the shortest average commutes are in Wichita County (7.0 min), Scott County (7.1 min), Greeley County (7.2 min). The longest are in Linn County (31.3 min), Miami County (30.8 min), Jefferson County (30.3 min).