Grundy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Grundy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grundy County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 113 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.4 minutes.

Grundy County holds about 0.2% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grundy County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,403 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)
Grundy County	13.6 min	27.1 min	113 hrs/yr	$3,507	396
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

Compare commute times among different counties

N

On average, it takes 13.6 minutes to get to work in Grundy County. That's 39% 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 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grundy County

• Car: 87.6%
• Worked at Home: 5.3%
• Walked: 5.0%
• Other: 1.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.4% unusually high
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Grundy County: 3.5 times more than the Missouri average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Grundy County: 33.4 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grundy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grundy 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	87.2%	6.2%	4.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	85.5%	6.7%	5.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.1%	6.3%	4.9%	2.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.4%	6.1%	4.8%	2.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.4%	5.2%	4.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.6%	3.6%	4.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.3%	3.5%	3.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	87.9%	4.0%	5.0%	1.4%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.7%	4.8%	5.4%	1.4%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	84.1%	6.6%	5.8%	1.5%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	82.0%	8.1%	5.9%	2.2%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	83.7%	7.9%	4.4%	1.7%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	85.1%	8.5%	3.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2022	85.6%	8.1%	3.2%	1.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2023	86.8%	6.3%	4.6%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.6%	5.3%	5.0%	1.6%	0.4%	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 was highest in 2015 at 90.3% and lowest in 2019 at 82.0%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 87.2% in 2009 and 87.6% in 2024. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Grundy County: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 5.0% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.2% to 5.3% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Grundy County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grundy County?

The bars show when commuters in Grundy 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	12:00-4:59 AM Grundy County7.2% Missouri5.2%	7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Grundy County2.9% Missouri3.9%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Grundy County3.7% Missouri5.3%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Grundy County10.7% Missouri9.0%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Grundy County11.5% Missouri10.4%	11.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Grundy County16.8% Missouri15.0%	16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Grundy County17.7% Missouri13.6%	17.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Grundy County6.6% Missouri10.1%	6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Grundy County4.1% Missouri4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Grundy County2.6% Missouri5.2%	2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Grundy County0.9% Missouri2.6%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Grundy County0.7% Missouri1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Grundy County6.3% Missouri7.0%	6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Grundy County8.4% Missouri6.9%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grundy County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are about as common as in Missouri: 13.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.9%) 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 Grundy 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 Grundy 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 Grundy 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.

• Grundy County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Grundy County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grundy County were on the road by 7:25 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Grundy County now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Grundy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grundy County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.6 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	5.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.0%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grundy County is 13.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 5.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau