Scott County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Scott County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scott County spend about 14 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 59 hours, about 2.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 59% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 10.1 minutes.

Scott 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 Scott County would save about 24 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $732 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)
Scott County	7.1 min	14.2 min	59 hrs/yr	$1,829	182
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 7.1 minutes to get to work in Scott County. That's 68% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest 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 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Scott County

• Car: 94.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.2%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Scott County: 8.5 times less than the Kansas average (0.3% vs 2.3%).

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

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

Biking is essentially absent in Scott County, versus 0.3% in Kansas.

Few people walk or bike to work in Scott County: just 0.3%, 9.6 times below the Kansas average of 2.6%.

Commute Mode Trends in Scott County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scott 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
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	90.0%	6.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2010	91.2%	4.7%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.8%
2011	91.6%	3.9%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2012	93.1%	1.6%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2013	94.1%	1.7%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	95.2%	1.2%	3.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.4%	2.4%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2016	94.9%	2.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	91.8%	5.1%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	85.7%	10.4%	3.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	87.6%	9.7%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	88.7%	9.2%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.7%	8.2%	3.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.6%	7.2%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.2%	5.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.6%	5.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	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 2014 at 95.2% and lowest in 2018 at 85.7%. Overall it rose from 90.0% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 10.4% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 5.2%.

Commute Start Times in Scott County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scott County?

The bars show when commuters in Scott 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 Scott County2.4% Kansas4.7%	2.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Scott County10.1% Kansas3.5%	10.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Scott County6.6% Kansas5.2%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Scott County5.7% Kansas7.6%	5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Scott County5.9% Kansas10.3%	5.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Scott County22.8% Kansas14.9%	22.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Scott County21.2% Kansas16.8%	21.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Scott County11.0% Kansas10.4%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Scott County4.4% Kansas4.5%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Scott County0.9% Kansas5.0%	0.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Scott County1.4% Kansas2.5%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Scott County0.0% Kansas1.1%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Scott County2.4% Kansas7.0%	2.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Scott County5.1% Kansas6.6%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scott County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 60.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (9.9%) 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 Scott 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 Scott 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 Scott 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.

• Scott County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Scott County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scott County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Kansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Scott County now leave 13 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 Scott County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Scott County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scott County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.1 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	5.2%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scott County is 7.1 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau