Stafford County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stafford County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stafford County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Stafford 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 Stafford County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,761 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)
Stafford County	17.0 min	34.1 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,402	372
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 17.0 minutes to get to work in Stafford County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% 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 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stafford County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.3%
• Walked: 3.3%
• Other: 0.6%
• 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 Stafford County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Stafford County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stafford 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.3%	7.7%	4.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	84.1%	10.8%	4.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	83.8%	11.3%	4.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	84.0%	10.8%	4.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.1%	10.4%	4.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	82.7%	10.0%	5.3%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	84.4%	6.9%	5.2%	3.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.0%	6.5%	4.3%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.5%	5.2%	3.9%	2.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.2%	5.0%	4.1%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.9%	6.5%	3.8%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.7%	6.8%	3.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.1%	7.2%	2.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.5%	9.2%	3.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.0%	9.4%	2.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	7.3%	3.3%	0.6%	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 2020 at 89.7% and lowest in 2014 at 82.7%. Overall it rose from 86.3% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.8% to 3.3% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 11.3% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 7.3%.

Commute Start Times in Stafford County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stafford County?

The bars show when commuters in Stafford 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 Stafford County4.6% Kansas4.7%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stafford County0.8% Kansas3.5%	0.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stafford County5.8% Kansas5.2%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stafford County7.3% Kansas7.6%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stafford County6.2% Kansas10.3%	6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stafford County29.0% Kansas14.9%	29.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stafford County19.7% Kansas16.8%	19.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stafford County7.5% Kansas10.4%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stafford County2.2% Kansas4.5%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stafford County2.3% Kansas5.0%	2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stafford County1.1% Kansas2.5%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stafford County1.0% Kansas1.1%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stafford County6.0% Kansas7.0%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stafford County6.5% Kansas6.6%	6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stafford County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 29.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 62.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.9%) 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 Stafford 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 Stafford 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 Stafford 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.

• Stafford County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Stafford County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stafford County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Kansas followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Stafford County now leave 12 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 Stafford County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Stafford County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stafford County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.0 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	7.3%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stafford County is about the same as in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 3.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau