Gladstone Commute Time Map & Patterns

Q: Is living in Gladstone, Missouri good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,298 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

Q: When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Gladstone, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Gladstone, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Q: How common is public transit use in Gladstone, 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.

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Commute Time Burden in Gladstone: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gladstone spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Gladstone holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gladstone would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,119 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)
Gladstone	20.5 min	41.0 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,298	2,197
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.

Gladstone Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Gladstone. That's 8% 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 14.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gladstone

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Gladstone: 13.4 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Biking is essentially absent in Gladstone, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Commute Mode Trends in Gladstone, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gladstone 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	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	96.1%	1.7%	0.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.7%	2.1%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	2.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	94.6%	2.5%	0.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	94.5%	2.4%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	93.5%	3.2%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	1.7%	0.6%	0.2%
2015	94.1%	3.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	93.4%	3.7%	0.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%
2017	92.5%	4.0%	0.5%	1.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	91.8%	4.3%	0.7%	2.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	92.3%	3.5%	0.8%	2.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	90.6%	5.1%	1.0%	2.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.1%	7.7%	1.0%	1.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	11.3%	0.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.7%	12.9%	0.9%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.4%	14.1%	1.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 96.1% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, down 12.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gladstone: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 14.1% in 2024, up 12.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 2.4% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Gladstone

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gladstone?

The bars show when commuters in Gladstone 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gladstone is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 10.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Gladstone, 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 Gladstone 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 Gladstone 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	Gladstone	Missouri	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gladstone were on the road by 7:36 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Gladstone now leave 2 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Gladstone's commute time compare?

Metric	Gladstone	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	14.1%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

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

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Gladstone, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,298 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Gladstone, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Gladstone, 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.