Wallace County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wallace County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wallace County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 93 hours, about 3.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 6.1 minutes.

Wallace County holds about 0.0% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wallace County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,149 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)
Wallace County	11.1 min	22.2 min	93 hrs/yr	$2,874	302
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 11.1 minutes to get to work in Wallace County. That's 50% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% 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 8.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wallace County

• Car: 86.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.4%
• Walked: 4.6%
• Other: 0.3%
• 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 Wallace County, versus 0.1% in Kansas.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wallace County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wallace 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	73.0%	11.8%	13.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	77.3%	9.3%	12.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	80.8%	7.1%	11.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	82.7%	7.9%	8.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.2%	7.1%	7.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.6%	5.5%	6.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.9%	5.4%	7.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.4%	7.9%	5.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	82.6%	10.9%	6.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	80.6%	11.8%	7.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	76.2%	14.4%	8.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	77.5%	15.4%	6.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.1%	10.7%	8.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.9%	8.7%	8.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.7%	8.6%	7.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.7%	8.4%	4.6%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2014 at 87.6%. Overall it rose from 73.0% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, up 13.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 13.7% to 4.6% of workers (down 9.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 15.4% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 8.4%.

Commute Start Times in Wallace County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wallace County?

The bars show when commuters in Wallace 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 Wallace County7.0% Kansas4.7%	7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wallace County1.8% Kansas3.5%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wallace County1.0% Kansas5.2%	1.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wallace County8.3% Kansas7.6%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wallace County13.9% Kansas10.3%	13.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wallace County33.1% Kansas14.9%	33.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wallace County14.0% Kansas16.8%	14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wallace County8.5% Kansas10.4%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wallace County1.8% Kansas4.5%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wallace County3.3% Kansas5.0%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wallace County1.7% Kansas2.5%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wallace County0.0% Kansas1.1%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wallace County4.5% Kansas7.0%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wallace County1.0% Kansas6.6%	1.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wallace County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 33.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are less common than in Kansas: 9.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 69.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.5%) 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 Wallace 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 Wallace 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 Wallace 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.

• Wallace County
• Kansas
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wallace County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:10 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:12 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wallace County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:10 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Wallace County now leave 22 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 Wallace County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Wallace County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wallace County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.1 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	8.4%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	4.6%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wallace County is 11.1 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 4.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau