Adair County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Adair County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Adair County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 100 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Adair County holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Adair County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,237 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)
Adair County	12.0 min	23.9 min	100 hrs/yr	$3,092	234
Missouri	21.0 min	41.9 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,415	923
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: Missouri Counties

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On average, it takes 12.0 minutes to get to work in Adair County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Missouri

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Adair County

• Car: 87.8%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 0.7%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Adair County, versus 0.1% in Missouri.

Public transit is unusually rare in Adair County: 11.3 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Adair County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Commute Mode Trends in Adair County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	87.0%	3.1%	7.0%	0.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	87.3%	2.7%	7.6%	0.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	85.2%	3.3%	8.8%	0.4%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	87.7%	2.6%	7.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	87.9%	2.6%	7.1%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%
2014	85.5%	3.2%	8.2%	0.4%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%
2015	86.7%	3.7%	6.8%	0.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2016	89.3%	3.5%	4.5%	0.2%	1.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2017	89.3%	4.0%	4.0%	0.2%	1.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	90.2%	4.7%	3.1%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	90.1%	5.2%	3.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.4%	4.8%	4.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	89.7%	5.1%	3.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.3%	5.8%	4.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.8%	7.6%	4.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.8%	8.0%	3.0%	0.7%	0.3%	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 2018 at 90.2% and lowest in 2011 at 85.2%. Overall it rose from 87.0% in 2009 to 87.8% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Adair County: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.0% to 3.0% of workers (down 4.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Adair County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Adair County?

The bars show when commuters in Adair 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 Missouri for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Adair County4.6% Missouri5.2%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Adair County3.7% Missouri3.9%	3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Adair County3.7% Missouri5.3%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Adair County7.0% Missouri9.0%	7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Adair County8.6% Missouri10.4%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Adair County14.2% Missouri15.0%	14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Adair County17.2% Missouri13.6%	17.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Adair County12.0% Missouri10.1%	12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Adair County4.5% Missouri4.5%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Adair County5.8% Missouri5.2%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Adair County2.0% Missouri2.6%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Adair County1.3% Missouri1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Adair County8.5% Missouri7.0%	8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Adair County7.0% Missouri6.9%	7.0%

Adair County Missouri Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Adair County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Adair 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 Adair 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 Adair County next to Missouri 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.

• Adair County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Adair County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:52 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:52 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:53 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:53 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Adair County were on the road by 7:45 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:56 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Adair County now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Adair County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Adair County's commute time compare?

Metric	Adair County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.0 min	21.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Adair County is 12.0 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau