Bollinger County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bollinger County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bollinger County spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 276 hours, about 11.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 58% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 12.1 minutes.

Bollinger County holds about 0.2% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bollinger County would save about 110 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,419 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)
Bollinger County	33.1 min	66.2 min	276 hrs/yr	$8,548	355
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.

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On average, it takes 33.1 minutes to get to work in Bollinger County. That's 48% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Missouri

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bollinger County

• Car: 86.8%
• Worked at Home: 11.5%
• Other: 1.4%
• Walked: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Bollinger County: 5.6 times less than the Missouri average (0.3% vs 1.8%).

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

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

Biking is essentially absent in Bollinger County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Few people walk or bike to work in Bollinger County: just 0.3%, 6.2 times below the Missouri average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Bollinger County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bollinger 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.6%	5.7%	2.5%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.5%	4.1%	1.5%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.9%	4.8%	1.2%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	3.3%	1.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.7%	2.7%	0.5%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.9%	2.9%	0.9%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.9%	4.5%	0.2%	2.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	2.8%	0.3%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.5%	4.1%	1.1%	4.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.5%	6.2%	1.2%	4.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.8%	6.2%	1.0%	3.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.9%	4.5%	1.2%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.1%	8.2%	1.0%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.3%	8.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.0%	7.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.8%	11.5%	1.4%	0.3%	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 peaked in 2016 at 94.2%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bollinger County: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 11.5% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.3% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bollinger County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bollinger County?

The bars show when commuters in Bollinger 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 Bollinger County9.7% Missouri5.2%	9.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bollinger County7.3% Missouri3.9%	7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bollinger County8.9% Missouri5.3%	8.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bollinger County8.7% Missouri9.0%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bollinger County11.1% Missouri10.4%	11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bollinger County16.0% Missouri15.0%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bollinger County9.1% Missouri13.6%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bollinger County5.5% Missouri10.1%	5.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bollinger County2.7% Missouri4.5%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bollinger County0.5% Missouri5.2%	0.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bollinger County2.4% Missouri2.6%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bollinger County1.5% Missouri1.2%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bollinger County10.2% Missouri7.0%	10.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bollinger County6.5% Missouri6.9%	6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bollinger County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 25.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 41.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Bollinger 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 Bollinger 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 Bollinger 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bollinger County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:52 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:53 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:58 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bollinger County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:00 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bollinger County now leave 30 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 Bollinger County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Bollinger County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bollinger County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	33.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bollinger County is 33.1 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau