Republic County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Republic County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Republic 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 100 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Republic 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 Republic County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,242 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)
Republic County	12.0 min	24.0 min	100 hrs/yr	$3,105	243
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

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On average, it takes 12.0 minutes to get to work in Republic County. That's 46% 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 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Republic County

• Car: 89.4%
• Worked at Home: 3.9% unusually low
• Walked: 3.7%
• Other: 2.8%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Republic County, versus 0.4% in Kansas.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Republic County: 3.1 times less than the Kansas average (3.9% vs 11.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Republic County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Republic 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.3%	5.4%	3.7%	2.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	84.3%	5.7%	4.5%	3.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	84.0%	5.7%	4.8%	3.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	83.9%	5.5%	5.4%	3.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	83.1%	6.4%	6.2%	2.4%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	83.2%	6.4%	5.9%	2.5%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.0%	7.3%	4.2%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	84.3%	9.0%	4.4%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	85.6%	8.4%	4.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	87.6%	7.8%	3.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	89.3%	7.1%	2.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	88.9%	6.5%	3.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.7%	4.0%	4.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.1%	3.9%	2.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.3%	4.3%	3.5%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.4%	3.9%	3.7%	2.8%	0.2%	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 2022 at 91.1% and lowest in 2013 at 83.1%. Overall it rose from 87.3% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.4% to 3.9% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.2% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 3.7%.

Commute Start Times in Republic County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Republic County?

The bars show when commuters in Republic 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 Republic County2.5% Kansas4.7%	2.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Republic County1.9% Kansas3.5%	1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Republic County4.5% Kansas5.2%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Republic County5.6% Kansas7.6%	5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Republic County9.4% Kansas10.3%	9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Republic County21.3% Kansas14.9%	21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Republic County23.2% Kansas16.8%	23.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Republic County10.4% Kansas10.4%	10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Republic County4.9% Kansas4.5%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Republic County2.9% Kansas5.0%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Republic County1.2% Kansas2.5%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Republic County1.2% Kansas1.1%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Republic County3.0% Kansas7.0%	3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Republic County8.1% Kansas6.6%	8.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Republic County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.8% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 64.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.3%) 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 Republic 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 Republic 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 Republic 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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• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Republic County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Republic County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Republic County now leave 2 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 Republic County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Republic County's commute time compare?

Metric	Republic County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.0 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	3.9%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.7%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Republic County is 12.0 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau