Carroll County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Carroll County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Carroll 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 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

Carroll County holds about 0.1% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Carroll County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,847 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)
Carroll County	17.9 min	35.7 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,618	297
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 17.9 minutes to get to work in Carroll County. That's 20% 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 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Carroll County

• Car: 87.6%
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Walked: 3.0%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Carroll County: 8.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Carroll County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Carroll 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
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.1%	8.1%	2.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.6%	7.5%	2.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.3%	6.6%	3.6%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.5%	5.2%	3.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	89.3%	5.7%	3.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	88.0%	5.6%	4.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	87.7%	7.3%	3.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.5%	8.6%	1.4%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	87.9%	9.3%	1.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.9%	9.7%	1.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.1%	9.9%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.9%	10.3%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.6%	8.3%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.9%	8.6%	3.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.9%	6.3%	4.6%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.6%	8.7%	3.0%	0.7%	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 2021 at 89.6% and lowest in 2018 at 86.9%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Carroll County: its share of workers rose from 8.1% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 4.7% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 3.0%.

Commute Start Times in Carroll County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Carroll County?

The bars show when commuters in Carroll 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 Carroll County4.1% Missouri5.2%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Carroll County4.1% Missouri3.9%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Carroll County6.1% Missouri5.3%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Carroll County11.8% Missouri9.0%	11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Carroll County12.1% Missouri10.4%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Carroll County15.2% Missouri15.0%	15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Carroll County14.7% Missouri13.6%	14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Carroll County11.4% Missouri10.1%	11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Carroll County3.2% Missouri4.5%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Carroll County4.1% Missouri5.2%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Carroll County2.8% Missouri2.6%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Carroll County0.2% Missouri1.2%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Carroll County6.3% Missouri7.0%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Carroll County3.7% Missouri6.9%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Carroll County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% 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: 53.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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 Carroll 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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• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Carroll County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Carroll County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Carroll County now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Carroll County's commute time compare?

Metric	Carroll County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 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	8.7%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Carroll County is 17.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau