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Commuting in Prairie Village, 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 Prairie Village: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Prairie Village spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Prairie Village holds about 0.8% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Prairie Village would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,092 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)
Prairie Village 20.2 min 40.5 min 169 hrs/yr $5,230 2,295
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.

Prairie Village Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in Prairie Village. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Prairie Village

  • Car: 74.3%
  • Worked at Home: 24.3%
  • Walked: 0.7% unusually low
  • Bicycle: 0.4%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Prairie Village: 3.4 times less than the Kansas average (0.7% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Prairie Village, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Prairie Village, versus 0.2% in Kansas.

Commute Mode Trends in Prairie Village, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Prairie Village 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 Bicycle Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 92.4% 5.7% 0.8% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2010 92.0% 5.9% 0.8% 0.4% 0.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
2011 92.5% 5.3% 0.8% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 91.9% 5.3% 1.1% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0%
2013 92.0% 5.7% 0.8% 0.4% 0.6% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2014 92.5% 5.0% 1.0% 0.3% 0.5% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0%
2015 92.5% 5.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.5% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0%
2016 91.1% 7.0% 0.6% 0.2% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0%
2017 91.1% 7.2% 0.6% 0.2% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2018 91.1% 7.4% 0.7% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 90.1% 7.9% 1.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 85.9% 12.6% 0.9% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 83.2% 15.3% 0.9% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2022 80.6% 17.9% 0.8% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 76.6% 21.5% 1.1% 0.4% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 74.3% 24.3% 0.7% 0.4% 0.3% 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 2011 at 92.5%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 74.3% in 2024, down 18.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Prairie Village: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 24.3% in 2024, up 18.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Prairie Village

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Prairie Village?

The bars show when commuters in Prairie Village 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
1.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
5.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
22.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
9.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
9.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.4%

Prairie Village Kansas Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Prairie Village is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 22.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 5.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 59.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Prairie Village, 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 Prairie Village 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 Prairie Village 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 Prairie Village Kansas United States
2009 7:56 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:55 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:55 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:54 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:55 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:54 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:55 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:56 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:56 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:53 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:56 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:59 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:57 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:59 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 8:02 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 8:02 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Prairie Village were on the road by 8:02 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:56 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Prairie Village now leave 25 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 Prairie Village has moved 7 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Prairie Village in the whole series.

How does Prairie Village's commute time compare?

Metric Prairie Village Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 20.2 min 17.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 24.3% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 0.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Prairie Village is 20.2 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Prairie Village, Kansas.

Is commuting expensive in Prairie Village, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 169 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,230 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Prairie Village, Kansas?

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

How common is public transit use in Prairie Village, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much money can remote workers save in Prairie Village, Kansas?

About 24.3% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Prairie Village would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,092 at the same national wage assumption used above.