Blue Springs Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Blue Springs: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blue Springs spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Blue Springs holds about 0.8% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blue Springs would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,449 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)
Blue Springs	23.7 min	47.4 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,122	2,756
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.

Blue Springs Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Blue Springs. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blue Springs

• Car: 85.2%
• Worked at Home: 13.6%
• Other: 0.6%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Blue Springs: 4.4 times less than the Missouri average (0.4% vs 1.8%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Blue Springs: 45.9 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Blue Springs, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Biking is unusually rare in Blue Springs: 18.5 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Blue Springs: just 0.4%, 4.7 times below the Missouri average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Blue Springs, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blue Springs 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.3%	3.1%	0.6%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	94.1%	3.3%	0.5%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	94.0%	3.2%	0.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	93.4%	3.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	92.9%	4.3%	1.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.2%	3.7%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	92.6%	4.2%	1.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	93.1%	4.1%	1.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	93.1%	4.3%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	93.8%	3.5%	1.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	93.0%	4.6%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2020	92.6%	5.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	89.1%	8.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	87.9%	10.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	84.8%	13.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	85.2%	13.6%	0.6%	0.4%	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 bottomed out in 2023 at 84.8%. Overall it fell from 94.3% in 2009 to 85.2% in 2024, down 9.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Blue Springs: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 13.6% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.0% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Blue Springs

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blue Springs?

The bars show when commuters in Blue Springs 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 Blue Springs4.5% Missouri5.2%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Blue Springs3.9% Missouri3.9%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Blue Springs4.3% Missouri5.3%	4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Blue Springs9.9% Missouri9.0%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Blue Springs9.9% Missouri10.4%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Blue Springs15.0% Missouri15.0%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Blue Springs11.4% Missouri13.6%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Blue Springs13.2% Missouri10.1%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Blue Springs4.9% Missouri4.5%	4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Blue Springs4.9% Missouri5.2%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Blue Springs1.2% Missouri2.6%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Blue Springs1.8% Missouri1.2%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Blue Springs6.0% Missouri7.0%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Blue Springs9.2% Missouri6.9%	9.2%

Blue Springs Missouri Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Blue Springs is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Blue Springs, 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 Blue Springs 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 Blue Springs 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.

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• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Blue Springs	Missouri	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blue Springs were on the road by 7:37 AM, 10 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Blue Springs now leave 1 minute 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 Blue Springs has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Blue Springs in the whole series.

How does Blue Springs's commute time compare?

Metric	Blue Springs	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.6%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Blue Springs is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau