Barton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Barton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Barton 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 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Barton County holds about 0.2% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Barton County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,879 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)
Barton County	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,698	272
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 18.2 minutes to get to work in Barton County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Barton County

• Car: 89.6%
• Worked at Home: 7.8%
• Walked: 2.0%
• Other: 0.6%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Barton County, versus 0.8% in Missouri.

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Barton County: 7.9 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Barton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Barton 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	89.9%	5.2%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2010	88.6%	6.3%	3.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2011	89.6%	6.4%	2.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%
2012	90.5%	5.8%	2.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	90.0%	4.9%	4.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2014	89.7%	5.0%	3.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%
2015	90.1%	4.6%	3.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2016	88.4%	6.5%	3.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	88.3%	5.9%	4.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%
2018	90.3%	5.6%	2.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	88.9%	6.4%	2.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	88.1%	7.4%	2.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	86.4%	7.5%	3.2%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	87.8%	8.3%	2.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	9.4%	2.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	7.8%	2.0%	0.6%	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 was highest in 2012 at 90.5% and lowest in 2021 at 86.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 89.9% in 2009 and 89.6% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Barton County: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 7.8% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.7% to 2.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 9.4% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 7.8%.

Commute Start Times in Barton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barton County?

The bars show when commuters in Barton 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 Barton County5.9% Missouri5.2%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Barton County2.5% Missouri3.9%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Barton County5.8% Missouri5.3%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Barton County7.1% Missouri9.0%	7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Barton County9.3% Missouri10.4%	9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Barton County20.4% Missouri15.0%	20.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Barton County14.9% Missouri13.6%	14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Barton County12.6% Missouri10.1%	12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Barton County4.1% Missouri4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Barton County2.4% Missouri5.2%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Barton County1.2% Missouri2.6%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Barton County1.4% Missouri1.2%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Barton County5.8% Missouri7.0%	5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Barton County6.6% Missouri6.9%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Barton County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are about as common as in Missouri: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 57.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Barton 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 Barton 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 Barton 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.

• Barton County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Barton County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Barton County were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Barton County now leave 9 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Barton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Barton County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	21.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Barton County is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau