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Commute Time Burden in Rush County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rush County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 147 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Rush County holds about 0.1% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rush County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,822 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)
Rush County 17.6 min 35.3 min 147 hrs/yr $4,555 246
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

Rush County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.6 minutes to get to work in Rush County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rush County

  • Car: 87.6%
  • Worked at Home: 7.0%
  • Walked: 5.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Rush County: 5.5 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Rush County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rush 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Other
2009 87.8% 6.1% 3.2% 0.1% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 1.2%
2010 87.7% 7.1% 3.2% 0.2% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.9%
2011 86.4% 8.5% 3.0% 0.2% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%
2012 88.7% 6.4% 3.9% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 90.0% 6.4% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 87.5% 7.6% 4.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2015 88.4% 7.4% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 88.2% 7.7% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2017 84.8% 8.2% 5.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6%
2018 86.4% 8.2% 3.6% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.4%
2019 87.3% 7.5% 3.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 1.1%
2020 88.1% 7.0% 3.5% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0%
2021 86.1% 7.4% 5.0% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0%
2022 86.7% 7.5% 5.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 85.3% 8.5% 5.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 87.6% 7.0% 5.1% 0.3% 0.1% 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 2013 at 90.0% and lowest in 2017 at 84.8%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 87.8% in 2009 and 87.6% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Rush County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 5.1% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 8.5% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 7.0%.

Commute Start Times in Rush County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rush County?

The bars show when commuters in Rush 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
6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
15.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rush County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 11.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 55.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.3%) 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 Rush 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 Rush 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 Rush 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 Rush County Kansas United States
2009 7:35 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:33 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:31 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:37 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:45 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:44 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:34 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rush County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Rush County now leave 7 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 Rush County has moved 13 minutes earlier.

How does Rush County's commute time compare?

Metric Rush County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.6 min 17.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 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 7.0% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 5.1% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Rush County is 17.6 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 5.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rush County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Rush County, KS is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 2,947 residents against a local median of 6,144. Rush County, KS's one-way commute, at 17.6 min, runs 51% above the 11.7 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves sit within 2.7 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Rush County, KS, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Rush County, KS has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Rush County, KS 2,947 17.6 min #6/6 7.0% #4/6 7:31 AM #3/6
Pawnee County, KS 6,144 11.7 min 12.5% 7:32 AM
Ellis County, KS 28,920 10.5 min 6.2% 7:48 AM
Barton County, KS 25,097 11.8 min 8.7% 7:39 AM
Ness County, KS 2,653 10.2 min 7.6% 7:31 AM
Edwards County, KS 2,779 12.9 min 3.4% 7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rush County, Kansas.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Rush County, Kansas?

Commuters here spend an estimated 147 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,555 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Rush County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Rush County, 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 Rush County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.4% in Kansas, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Kansas?

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).