Boone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Boone County, Missouri: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Boone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boone County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Boone County holds about 3.0% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 2.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boone County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,745 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)
Boone County	16.9 min	33.8 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,363	1,183
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Missouri

Saline County (11.9 min)
Adair County (12.0 min)
Nodaway County (12.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Missouri

Bollinger County (33.1 min)
Ray County (32.2 min)
Maries County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Boone County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.9 minutes to get to work in Boone County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of 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 9.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Boone County

Biking is unusually common in Boone County: 3.1 times more than the Missouri average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Boone County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Boone 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.2%	3.5%	4.7%	0.6%	0.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	89.4%	3.5%	4.7%	0.6%	0.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	89.1%	3.6%	4.8%	0.5%	0.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	89.4%	3.4%	4.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	89.4%	3.5%	4.5%	0.4%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	88.8%	3.8%	4.7%	0.4%	0.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	88.8%	3.9%	4.3%	0.7%	1.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%
2016	89.2%	3.8%	4.0%	0.7%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2017	88.7%	4.2%	3.9%	0.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	89.0%	4.3%	3.8%	0.6%	1.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	89.6%	4.3%	3.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	87.5%	5.9%	4.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	86.5%	6.7%	4.7%	0.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	86.0%	7.7%	4.2%	0.3%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	84.2%	9.2%	4.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	83.6%	9.8%	4.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 89.6%. Overall it fell from 89.2% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Boone County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 9.8% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.7% to 4.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Boone County

Night OwlThe 3rd-latest start among Missouri's 115 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:48 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Boone County?

The bars show when commuters in Boone 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		3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Boone County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 9.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 53.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Boone 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 Boone 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 Boone 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Boone County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Boone County were on the road by 7:48 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Boone County now leave 10 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 Boone County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Boone County's commute time compare?

Metric	Boone County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 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	9.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	4.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Boone County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Missouri. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Boone County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Boone County, MO is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 188,044 residents against a local median of 24,365. Where Boone County, MO breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 20% below the local median of 21.2 min at 16.9 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 12.1 min on one-way commute, so Boone County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Boone County, MO has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Boone County, MO	188,044	16.9 min #3/6	9.8% #2/6	7:48 AM #6/6
Callaway County, MO	44,740	21.2 min	10.0%	7:17 AM
Howard County, MO	10,147	25.6 min	9.8%	7:32 AM
Moniteau County, MO	15,262	28.0 min	8.7%	7:07 AM
Cole County, MO	77,032	16.1 min	9.2%	7:29 AM
Randolph County, MO	24,365	15.8 min	7.0%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Boone County, Missouri.

Is living in Boone County, Missouri good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 141 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,363 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Boone County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Boone County, Missouri. 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Missouri?

Among counties in Missouri, the shortest average commutes are in Saline County (11.9 min), Adair County (12.0 min), Nodaway County (12.1 min). The longest are in Bollinger County (33.1 min), Ray County (32.2 min), Maries County (31.9 min).