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Commute Time Burden in Woodson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Woodson County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Kansas average of 17.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Woodson 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 Woodson County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,868 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)
Woodson County 18.1 min 36.2 min 151 hrs/yr $4,671 486
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

Woodson County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Woodson County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 81% of counties in Kansas

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Woodson County

  • Car: 87.4%
  • Walked: 5.7%
  • Worked at Home: 4.4%
  • Other: 2.4%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Woodson County: 3.7 times less than the Kansas average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Woodson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Woodson 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 Walked Worked at Home Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 91.1% 2.3% 5.2% 0.0% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 90.7% 3.0% 5.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 90.9% 3.9% 4.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 87.8% 4.2% 6.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 87.9% 4.7% 5.5% 0.9% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 88.5% 4.6% 5.6% 0.9% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.3%
2015 87.4% 5.0% 5.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.7%
2016 85.1% 6.4% 5.8% 1.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.7%
2017 86.7% 6.5% 4.1% 1.8% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.4%
2018 87.7% 6.9% 3.0% 2.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 87.6% 5.7% 3.4% 2.8% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 89.6% 4.4% 2.9% 2.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 89.9% 2.8% 5.1% 2.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 88.4% 5.5% 4.8% 1.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 89.7% 5.7% 3.4% 1.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 87.4% 5.7% 4.4% 2.4% 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 bottomed out in 2016 at 85.1%. Overall it fell from 91.1% in 2009 to 87.4% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Woodson County: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 5.7% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 6.9% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 5.7%.

Commute Start Times in Woodson County

  • Hitting SnoozeThe 2nd-biggest shift to later mornings among Kansas's 105 counties: the typical start is 13 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Woodson County?

The bars show when commuters in Woodson 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
8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
18.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Woodson County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 18.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Kansas. Early starts are about as common as in Kansas: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Kansas: 56.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 52.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Woodson 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 Woodson 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 Woodson 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 Woodson County Kansas United States
2009 7:26 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:20 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:21 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:22 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:26 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:28 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:35 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:35 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Woodson County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:26 AM). That goes against the trend across Kansas, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Woodson County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Woodson County has moved 2 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Woodson County in the whole series.

How does Woodson County's commute time compare?

Metric Woodson County Kansas US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.1 min 17.2 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 4.4% 11.8% 15.0%
Walked 5.7% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Woodson County is 18.1 minutes, longer than the 17.2 minutes in Kansas.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.4% in Kansas. 5.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in Kansas.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Woodson County, KS Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Woodson County, KS is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,109 residents against a local median of 8,505. Woodson County, KS's work from home, at 4.4%, runs 30% below the 6.2% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 3.5% on work from home, so Woodson County, KS sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Woodson 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
Woodson County, KS 3,109 18.1 min #6/6 4.4% #5/6 7:38 AM #6/6
Wilson County, KS 8,505 16.4 min 4.2% 7:11 AM
Coffey County, KS 8,308 17.9 min 4.6% 7:25 AM
Allen County, KS 12,483 15.4 min 6.9% 7:30 AM
Greenwood County, KS 5,919 17.4 min 6.2% 7:23 AM
Neosho County, KS 15,656 12.4 min 7.7% 7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Woodson County, Kansas.

Is living in Woodson County, Kansas good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 151 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,671 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Kansas commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Woodson County, Kansas?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Woodson County, Kansas. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Woodson County, Kansas?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% 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).