Chesterfield Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chesterfield: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chesterfield spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Chesterfield holds about 0.7% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chesterfield would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,243 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)
Chesterfield	21.7 min	43.4 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,607	3,921
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.

Chesterfield Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Chesterfield. That's 3% 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 26.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chesterfield

• Car: 71.4%
• Worked at Home: 26.8%
• Other: 0.7%
• Walked: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Chesterfield: 1356011082.1 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Chesterfield: 3.4 times less than the Missouri average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Chesterfield: 13.3 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chesterfield, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chesterfield 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
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.6%	8.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	89.9%	8.0%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.8%	7.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	90.4%	7.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	90.5%	7.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.0%	6.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	90.8%	7.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	91.0%	7.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	91.2%	7.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	91.2%	7.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.3%	8.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	86.0%	12.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.6%	17.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	77.6%	20.6%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.5%	24.4%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.4%	26.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2017 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 71.4% in 2024, down 18.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chesterfield: its share of workers rose from 8.7% in 2009 to 26.8% in 2024, up 18.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Chesterfield

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chesterfield?

The bars show when commuters in Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield2.0% Missouri5.2%	2.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chesterfield1.5% Missouri3.9%	1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chesterfield1.8% Missouri5.3%	1.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chesterfield4.9% Missouri9.0%	4.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chesterfield8.9% Missouri10.4%	8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chesterfield17.8% Missouri15.0%	17.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chesterfield15.5% Missouri13.6%	15.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chesterfield17.7% Missouri10.1%	17.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chesterfield8.6% Missouri4.5%	8.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chesterfield8.6% Missouri5.2%	8.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chesterfield4.2% Missouri2.6%	4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chesterfield0.6% Missouri1.2%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chesterfield3.8% Missouri7.0%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chesterfield3.9% Missouri6.9%	3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chesterfield is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 5.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 60.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Chesterfield, 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 Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield 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.

• Chesterfield
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chesterfield	Missouri	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:50 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 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	7:56 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chesterfield were on the road by 7:55 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:47 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Chesterfield now leave 17 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 Chesterfield has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Chesterfield's commute time compare?

Metric	Chesterfield	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	26.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chesterfield is 21.7 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau