Grandview Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grandview: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grandview spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Grandview holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grandview would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,291 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)
Grandview	22.2 min	44.3 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,727	1,009
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.

Grandview Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Grandview. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grandview

• Car: 79.8%
• Worked at Home: 16.2%
• Other: 2.1%
• Taxi: 1.1% unusually high
• Walked: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Grandview: 9.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Grandview: 7.0 times more than the Missouri average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Grandview: just 0.6%, 3.3 times below the Missouri average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in Grandview, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grandview 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Taxi
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Taxi	Walked	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.4%	2.7%	0.3%	0.0%	1.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	3.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	95.6%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	94.8%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	1.2%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	94.7%	3.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.9%	3.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	94.5%	2.6%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	2.3%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2017	94.0%	3.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	94.2%	2.4%	0.8%	0.0%	1.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	2.5%	1.5%	0.0%	1.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	88.2%	7.6%	1.8%	0.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	86.3%	10.1%	1.7%	0.1%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	84.7%	10.9%	2.5%	0.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	83.3%	13.4%	2.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	79.8%	16.2%	2.1%	1.1%	0.6%	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 2011 at 95.6%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 79.8% in 2024, down 14.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grandview: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 16.2% in 2024, up 13.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.4% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Grandview

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grandview?

The bars show when commuters in Grandview 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 Grandview6.5% Missouri5.2%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grandview2.8% Missouri3.9%	2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grandview6.0% Missouri5.3%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grandview9.5% Missouri9.0%	9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grandview7.9% Missouri10.4%	7.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grandview12.7% Missouri15.0%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grandview15.5% Missouri13.6%	15.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grandview9.9% Missouri10.1%	9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grandview5.3% Missouri4.5%	5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grandview3.9% Missouri5.2%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grandview4.3% Missouri2.6%	4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grandview1.3% Missouri1.2%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grandview8.6% Missouri7.0%	8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grandview5.7% Missouri6.9%	5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grandview is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are about as common as in Missouri: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Grandview, 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 Grandview 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 Grandview 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.

• Grandview
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grandview	Missouri	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grandview were on the road by 7:39 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Grandview now leave 1 minute 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 Grandview has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Grandview's commute time compare?

Metric	Grandview	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 min	21.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.2%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grandview is 22.2 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau