Douglas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Douglas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Douglas County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Douglas 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 Douglas County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,149 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)
Douglas County	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,374	504
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

Douglas County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in Douglas County. That's 7% 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 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Douglas County

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Douglas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Douglas 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	Other	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.2%	6.1%	0.7%	0.2%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.4%	5.9%	1.1%	0.1%	3.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.1%	5.0%	0.9%	0.1%	2.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.2%	5.5%	1.6%	0.4%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	3.8%	1.0%	0.3%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	91.5%	4.0%	0.8%	0.3%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.4%	3.3%	0.4%	0.2%	4.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	91.0%	4.3%	0.6%	0.2%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.8%	3.6%	0.6%	0.1%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	89.9%	4.7%	1.2%	0.1%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.2%	4.2%	0.9%	0.2%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	90.7%	5.0%	2.5%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	92.4%	3.3%	2.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.0%	7.6%	2.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.2%	9.6%	1.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.8%	11.0%	1.9%	0.7%	0.7%	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 2013 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 89.2% in 2009 to 85.8% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Douglas County: its share of workers rose from 6.1% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 4.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 0.7% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Douglas County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Douglas County?

The bars show when commuters in Douglas 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		7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Douglas County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 18.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 44.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Douglas 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 Douglas 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 Douglas 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	Douglas County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Douglas County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Douglas County now leave 15 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 Douglas County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Douglas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Douglas County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	11.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Douglas County is about the same as in Missouri.

0.7% 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

Douglas County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Douglas County, MO is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 11,965 residents against a local median of 40,383. The measure that sets Douglas County, MO apart most is work from home: 11.0%, 48% above the local median of 7.4%.

The counties themselves spread 8.7% on work from home, so Douglas County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Douglas County, MO has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Douglas County, MO	11,965	20.8 min #3/6	11.0% #2/6	7:23 AM #5/6
Ozark County, MO	8,873	30.1 min	14.7%	7:16 AM
Wright County, MO	18,965	22.3 min	7.4%	7:13 AM
Webster County, MO	40,500	27.0 min	6.5%	7:18 AM
Taney County, MO	56,523	18.6 min	9.0%	7:47 AM
Howell County, MO	40,383	16.7 min	6.0%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Douglas County, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,374 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Douglas County, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 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).