Chariton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chariton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chariton County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 170 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Chariton 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 Chariton County would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,106 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)
Chariton County	20.4 min	40.8 min	170 hrs/yr	$5,266	265
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 20.4 minutes to get to work in Chariton County. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chariton County

• Car: 89.0%
• Worked at Home: 8.4%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Chariton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chariton 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	88.8%	8.2%	2.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.6%	8.9%	2.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	87.7%	9.1%	2.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	88.2%	8.6%	2.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.1%	6.8%	2.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.1%	6.7%	2.4%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.2%	6.3%	1.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.3%	7.9%	1.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.5%	8.0%	1.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	89.8%	7.5%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	90.7%	7.1%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	89.0%	6.2%	2.7%	1.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.4%	5.1%	2.2%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	89.3%	6.5%	2.5%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.8%	8.5%	2.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.0%	8.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.4%	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 2019 at 90.7% and lowest in 2010 at 87.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 88.8% in 2009 and 89.0% in 2024. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 1.5% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Chariton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chariton County?

The bars show when commuters in Chariton 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 Chariton County3.9% Missouri5.2%	3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chariton County4.7% Missouri3.9%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chariton County4.8% Missouri5.3%	4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chariton County10.7% Missouri9.0%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chariton County15.6% Missouri10.4%	15.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chariton County13.8% Missouri15.0%	13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chariton County17.7% Missouri13.6%	17.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chariton County10.6% Missouri10.1%	10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chariton County3.3% Missouri4.5%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chariton County2.5% Missouri5.2%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chariton County1.5% Missouri2.6%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chariton County0.7% Missouri1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chariton County5.2% Missouri7.0%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chariton County4.9% Missouri6.9%	4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chariton County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 57.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Chariton 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 Chariton 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 Chariton 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.

• Chariton County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chariton County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chariton County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Chariton County now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Chariton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chariton County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chariton County is 20.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau