Camden County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Camden County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Camden County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Camden County holds about 0.7% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Camden County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,940 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)
Camden County	18.8 min	37.5 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,849	726
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 18.8 minutes to get to work in Camden County. That's 16% shorter 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 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Camden County

• Car: 84.7%
• Worked at Home: 10.5%
• Other: 2.6%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Camden County: 14.6 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Camden County: 16.9 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Camden County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Camden 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	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	82.7%	11.8%	2.7%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.4%	10.6%	2.6%	1.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.7%	8.8%	2.1%	1.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.4%	7.4%	1.8%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.2%	6.1%	1.6%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.3%	4.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	4.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	5.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.8%	5.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.2%	5.4%	0.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.2%	4.6%	0.7%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.0%	6.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	7.4%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.4%	9.1%	1.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.2%	9.2%	2.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.7%	10.5%	2.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.3%	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 2019 at 93.2%. Overall it rose from 82.7% in 2009 to 84.7% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 11.8% to 10.5% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Camden County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Camden County?

The bars show when commuters in Camden 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 Camden County5.2% Missouri5.2%	5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Camden County2.9% Missouri3.9%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Camden County5.1% Missouri5.3%	5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Camden County9.8% Missouri9.0%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Camden County10.0% Missouri10.4%	10.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Camden County17.9% Missouri15.0%	17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Camden County12.9% Missouri13.6%	12.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Camden County14.6% Missouri10.1%	14.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Camden County4.2% Missouri4.5%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Camden County5.8% Missouri5.2%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Camden County2.6% Missouri2.6%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Camden County1.0% Missouri1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Camden County4.4% Missouri7.0%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Camden County3.8% Missouri6.9%	3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Camden County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 55.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Camden 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 Camden 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 Camden 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	Camden County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Camden County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Camden County now leave 9 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 Camden County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Camden County's commute time compare?

Metric	Camden County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	10.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Camden County is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau