Riley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Riley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Riley 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 103 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 29% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Riley County holds about 2.5% of Kansas's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Riley County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,272 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)
Riley County	12.3 min	24.6 min	103 hrs/yr	$3,181	804
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 12.3 minutes to get to work in Riley County. That's 45% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Walked . About 10.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 73.9%
• Walked: 13.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 10.7%
• Bicycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1%

Walked commuting is unusually common in Riley County: 5.9 times more than the Kansas average (13.5% vs 2.3%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Riley County: 3.2 times more than the Kansas average (0.9% vs 0.3%).

Riley County stands out for active commuting: 14.3% of workers walk or bike to work, 5.6 times the Kansas average of 2.5%.

How does Riley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Riley County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.3 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	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.7%	10.7%	13.4%
Walked	13.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.4%	3.5%

The average commute time in Riley County is 12.3 minutes, shorter than the 17.3 minutes in Kansas.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 13.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau