Wilson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Wilson County, Kansas: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Wilson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wilson County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 137 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Wilson County holds about 0.3% of Kansas's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wilson County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,698 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)
Wilson County	16.4 min	32.9 min	137 hrs/yr	$4,246	816
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

Wichita County (7.0 min)
Scott County (7.1 min)
Greeley County (7.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Kansas

Linn County (31.3 min)
Miami County (30.8 min)
Jefferson County (30.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Wilson County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Wilson County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wilson County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Wilson County: 12.2 times more than the Kansas average (1.5% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Wilson County: 3.0 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wilson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wilson 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	Motorcycle	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	88.3%	4.2%	0.3%	5.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	91.0%	3.2%	0.3%	4.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	88.3%	4.4%	0.5%	6.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	89.1%	4.8%	0.4%	5.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	88.7%	4.6%	0.2%	6.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.6%	4.0%	0.1%	5.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	87.7%	3.9%	0.2%	7.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	88.4%	3.4%	0.0%	6.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2017	87.6%	3.9%	0.0%	6.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	88.2%	3.6%	0.0%	5.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	88.4%	4.3%	0.0%	5.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	90.0%	4.9%	0.0%	3.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.7%	5.2%	0.0%	3.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.3%	4.0%	0.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.8%	4.8%	1.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	92.1%	4.2%	1.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2022 at 93.3% and lowest in 2017 at 87.6%. Overall it rose from 88.3% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points.

Riding a motorcycle gained the most ground in Wilson County: its share of workers rose from 0.3% in 2009 to 1.5% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 1.5% of workers (down 4.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 5.2% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 4.2%.

Commute Start Times in Wilson County

Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Kansas's 105 counties: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wilson County?

The bars show when commuters in Wilson 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		8.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		16.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wilson County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Kansas. Early starts are more common than in Kansas: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Kansas: 45.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.4%) 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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 Wilson 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	Wilson County	Kansas	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wilson County were on the road by 7:11 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Kansas, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Wilson County now leave 26 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 Wilson County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Wilson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wilson County	Kansas	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.2%	11.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wilson County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wilson County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Wilson County, KS is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,505 residents against a local median of 12,483. Where Wilson County, KS breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 39% below the local median of 6.9% at 4.2%.

The counties themselves spread 6.7% on work from home, so Wilson County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Wilson County, KS has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Wilson County, KS	8,505	16.4 min #4/6	4.2% #5/6	7:11 AM #1/6
Woodson County, KS	3,109	18.1 min	4.4%	7:38 AM
Montgomery County, KS	30,940	13.7 min	3.5%	7:25 AM
Neosho County, KS	15,656	12.4 min	7.7%	7:24 AM
Elk County, KS	2,453	21.8 min	10.2%	7:21 AM
Allen County, KS	12,483	15.4 min	6.9%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wilson County, Kansas.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 137 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,246 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Wilson County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Wilson County, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Wilson 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).