Holt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Holt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Holt County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Holt 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 Holt County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,853 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)
Holt County	17.9 min	35.9 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,633	213
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

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On average, it takes 17.9 minutes to get to work in Holt County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 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 Holt County

• Car: 88.9%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Walked: 2.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Other: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Holt County: 3.3 times less than the Missouri average (0.3% vs 0.8%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Holt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Holt 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.3%	5.7%	2.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	90.5%	5.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.3%	5.9%	3.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.4%	5.2%	3.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	90.5%	4.9%	4.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.2%	4.4%	4.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	2.8%	4.5%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.2%	2.8%	3.6%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.3%	3.1%	3.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.5%	3.5%	4.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.4%	4.5%	3.0%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.6%	6.8%	3.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.9%	7.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.7%	7.7%	3.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.2%	8.3%	3.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.9%	8.0%	2.8%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2017 at 92.3% and lowest in 2023 at 88.2%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 88.9% in 2024, down 2.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Holt County: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 4.9% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 2.8%.

Commute Start Times in Holt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Holt County?

The bars show when commuters in Holt 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 Holt County7.0% Missouri5.2%	7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Holt County5.1% Missouri3.9%	5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Holt County10.5% Missouri5.3%	10.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Holt County14.2% Missouri9.0%	14.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Holt County8.5% Missouri10.4%	8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Holt County10.9% Missouri15.0%	10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Holt County13.7% Missouri13.6%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Holt County11.0% Missouri10.1%	11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Holt County1.9% Missouri4.5%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Holt County4.4% Missouri5.2%	4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Holt County2.2% Missouri2.6%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Holt County1.0% Missouri1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Holt County5.7% Missouri7.0%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Holt County3.9% Missouri6.9%	3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Holt County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 22.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 44.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.2%) 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 Holt 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 Holt 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 Holt 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Holt County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Holt County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 12 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Holt County now leave 25 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 Holt County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Holt County in the whole series.

How does Holt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Holt County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 min	21.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	8.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Holt County is 17.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau