Cedar County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cedar 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 Cedar County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cedar County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Cedar County holds about 0.2% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cedar County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,073 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)
Cedar County	20.1 min	40.1 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,182	432
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

Cedar County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Cedar County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cedar County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cedar County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cedar 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.4%	5.0%	5.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	87.2%	5.4%	6.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.9%	4.3%	6.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	89.2%	4.5%	5.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	89.7%	3.9%	5.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	91.1%	3.1%	3.1%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%
2015	93.0%	3.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
2016	92.2%	4.2%	2.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2017	93.0%	3.8%	2.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	89.8%	7.5%	2.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	88.5%	6.5%	2.9%	0.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.9%	8.5%	2.2%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	8.9%	1.9%	0.3%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	9.2%	1.5%	0.2%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.3%	8.6%	1.9%	0.4%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.1%	9.9%	1.4%	1.3%	1.3%	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 2015 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 86.1% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cedar County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 1.4% of workers (down 3.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Cedar County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cedar County?

The bars show when commuters in Cedar 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		7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		14.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		0.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cedar County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 18.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 46.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.2%) 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 Cedar 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 Cedar 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 Cedar 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	Cedar County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cedar County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Cedar County now leave 26 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 Cedar County has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Cedar County in the whole series.

How does Cedar County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cedar County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cedar County is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cedar County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cedar County, MO is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 14,615 residents against a local median of 11,690. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Cedar County, MO an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 9% below the local median at 20.1 min against 22.0 min. Cedar 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
Cedar County, MO	14,615	20.1 min #3/6	9.9% #3/6	7:12 AM #1/6
Dade County, MO	7,641	22.6 min	10.0%	7:24 AM
St. Clair County, MO	9,587	22.0 min	8.8%	7:22 AM
Polk County, MO	32,444	23.5 min	9.3%	7:18 AM
Vernon County, MO	19,687	15.3 min	11.8%	7:26 AM
Barton County, MO	11,690	18.2 min	7.8%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cedar County, Missouri.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Cedar County, Missouri?

Commuters here spend an estimated 167 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,182 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Cedar County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cedar County, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Missouri have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).