Reno County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Reno County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Reno County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 113 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 22% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

Reno County holds about 2.1% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Reno County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,395 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)
Reno County	13.5 min	27.0 min	113 hrs/yr	$3,489	1,310
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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 13.5 minutes to get to work in Reno County. That's 40% 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 5.8% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 91.0%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 1.0%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Reno County: 3.5 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

How does Reno County's commute time compare?

Metric	Reno County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.5 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	5.8%	10.7%	13.4%
Walked	1.2%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.5%

The average commute time in Reno County is 13.5 minutes, shorter than the 17.3 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau