Gentry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Gentry 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 Gentry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gentry County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Gentry 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 Gentry County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,746 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)
Gentry County	16.9 min	33.8 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,364	284
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

Gentry County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.9 minutes to get to work in Gentry County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster 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 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gentry County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Gentry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gentry 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.0%	8.0%	3.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	88.5%	5.3%	4.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	89.9%	4.6%	3.3%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	89.8%	3.9%	3.5%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	90.0%	3.6%	3.8%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	90.3%	4.0%	3.3%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	89.9%	4.9%	2.5%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	90.1%	3.9%	3.8%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	90.9%	4.1%	3.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.4%	2.8%	4.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.8%	5.1%	4.1%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.2%	6.2%	4.8%	0.9%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.5%	8.2%	3.6%	1.6%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.1%	8.8%	2.9%	2.0%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.1%	10.2%	2.6%	2.2%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.2%	8.0%	2.2%	1.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 91.4% and lowest in 2023 at 83.1%. Overall it fell from 87.0% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Gentry County: its share of workers rose from 0.6% in 2009 to 1.3% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 2.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook biking to become the 6th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 10.2% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 8.0%.

Commute Start Times in Gentry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gentry County?

The bars show when commuters in Gentry 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		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		22.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gentry County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 53.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Gentry 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 Gentry 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 Gentry 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	Gentry County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gentry County were on the road by 7:20 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Gentry County now leave 18 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 Gentry County has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Gentry County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gentry County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 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	8.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gentry County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Gentry County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Gentry County, MO is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 6,245 residents against a local median of 8,477. Where Gentry County, MO breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 19% below the local median of 9.9% at 8.0%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.9 min against a local median of 20.3 min, 17% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% below the local median it puts Gentry County, MO at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.5% on work from home, so Gentry County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Gentry County, MO has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Gentry County, MO	6,245	16.9 min #2/6	8.0% #5/6	7:20 AM #3/6
Worth County, MO	1,934	20.3 min	11.8%	7:32 AM
DeKalb County, MO	10,876	26.9 min	9.9%	7:07 AM
Harrison County, MO	8,190	15.5 min	9.7%	7:22 AM
Andrew County, MO	18,065	20.3 min	7.0%	7:19 AM
Daviess County, MO	8,477	22.1 min	13.5%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Gentry County, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 141 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,364 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Gentry 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.

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).