Howard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Howard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Howard County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting.

That is 12% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Howard County holds about 0.2% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Howard County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,439 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)
Howard County	23.6 min	47.2 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,097	441
Missouri	21.0 min	42.1 min	175 hrs/yr	$5,435	923
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 23.6 minutes to get to work in Howard County. That's 5% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% of counties in Missouri

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

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 8.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 87.7%
• Worked at Home: 8.3%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Howard County, versus 0.1% in Missouri.

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Howard County, versus 0.1% in Missouri.

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Howard County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

How does Howard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Howard County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.6 min	21.0 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	8.3%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	2.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Howard County is 23.6 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Missouri. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau