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Commuting in Christian 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 Christian County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Christian County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Christian County holds about 1.5% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 1.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Christian County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,420 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)
Christian County 23.4 min 46.8 min 195 hrs/yr $6,049 1,398
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
  1. Saline County (11.9 min)
  2. Adair County (12.0 min)
  3. Nodaway County (12.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Missouri
  1. Bollinger County (33.1 min)
  2. Ray County (32.2 min)
  3. Maries County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Christian County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.4 minutes to get to work in Christian County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 75% of counties in Missouri

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Christian County

  • Car: 87.2%
  • Worked at Home: 10.2%
  • Walked: 1.7%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Taxi: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Christian County: 10.6 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in Christian County: 6.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Christian County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Christian 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 Other Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 93.4% 3.7% 1.4% 1.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 93.1% 4.0% 1.2% 1.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 93.6% 3.9% 0.9% 1.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 93.1% 4.8% 0.6% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 92.9% 5.0% 0.5% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 92.8% 4.8% 0.7% 1.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2015 93.1% 4.6% 0.7% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 92.6% 4.7% 0.9% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
2017 93.2% 4.5% 0.8% 1.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
2018 93.3% 4.5% 1.0% 1.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2019 93.4% 4.6% 0.9% 0.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2020 93.4% 4.3% 1.6% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2021 91.6% 5.6% 2.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2022 90.2% 7.0% 1.8% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 88.1% 9.3% 1.8% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 87.2% 10.2% 1.7% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Christian County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 10.2% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Christian County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Christian County?

The bars show when commuters in Christian 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
3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Christian County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 55.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Christian 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 Christian 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 Christian 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 Christian County Missouri United States
2009 7:29 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:29 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:29 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:28 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:28 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:30 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:30 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:29 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:27 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:28 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:25 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Christian County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Christian County now leave 13 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 Christian County has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Christian County in the whole series.

How does Christian County's commute time compare?

Metric Christian County Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.4 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 10.2% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 1.7% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Christian County is 23.4 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Christian County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Christian County, MO is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 92,915 residents against a local median of 40,500. Christian County, MO sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 12% above the local median at 23.4 min against 20.8 min. Christian County, MO has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Christian County, MO 92,915 23.4 min #4/6 10.2% #4/6 7:25 AM #3/6
Greene County, MO 303,351 18.1 min 11.4% 7:43 AM
Stone County, MO 32,050 25.6 min 11.9% 7:32 AM
Taney County, MO 56,523 18.6 min 9.0% 7:47 AM
Webster County, MO 40,500 27.0 min 6.5% 7:18 AM
Lawrence County, MO 38,593 20.8 min 10.4% 7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Christian County, Missouri.

Is living in Christian County, Missouri good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 195 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,049 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Christian County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Christian County, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Christian County, Missouri?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.8% in Missouri, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Missouri?

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).