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Knox County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Knox County, Missouri: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Knox County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Knox County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 135 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Knox County holds about 0.1% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Knox County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,675 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)
Knox County 16.2 min 32.4 min 135 hrs/yr $4,189 134
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Missouri
  1. Saline County (11.9 min)
  2. Adair County (12.0 min)
  3. Nodaway County (12.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Missouri
  1. Bollinger County (33.1 min)
  2. Ray County (32.2 min)
  3. Maries County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Knox County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.2 minutes to get to work in Knox County. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 82% of counties in Missouri

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 22.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Knox County

  • Car: 73.0%
  • Worked at Home: 22.4%
  • Walked: 3.2%
  • Public Transportation: 1.2%
  • Other: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Knox County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Knox 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.

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 Walked Public Transportation Other Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 85.8% 7.1% 4.8% 0.2% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 87.4% 6.3% 4.5% 0.0% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2011 87.5% 7.2% 2.5% 0.4% 2.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2012 84.4% 8.6% 3.5% 0.7% 2.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2013 82.4% 10.5% 4.4% 0.6% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2014 82.1% 10.6% 4.7% 0.8% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2015 80.4% 11.3% 5.5% 1.0% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2016 84.8% 8.9% 5.7% 0.1% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 84.9% 10.0% 4.4% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 86.6% 9.3% 3.4% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 85.4% 11.3% 2.5% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 75.3% 22.0% 1.1% 0.1% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 71.5% 24.2% 1.9% 1.1% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 74.6% 20.0% 3.1% 1.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 71.4% 22.3% 3.9% 2.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 73.0% 22.4% 3.2% 1.2% 0.2% 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 2011 at 87.5% and lowest in 2023 at 71.4%. Overall it fell from 85.8% in 2009 to 73.0% in 2024, down 12.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Knox County: its share of workers rose from 7.1% in 2009 to 22.4% in 2024, up 15.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.8% to 3.2% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 24.2% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 22.4%.

Commute Start Times in Knox County

  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Missouri's 115 counties: 69.6% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Knox County?

The bars show when commuters in Knox 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
3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
19.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
27.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
2.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Knox County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 27.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 69.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 12 commuters (8.4%) 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 Knox 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 Knox 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 Knox 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Knox County Missouri United States
2009 7:27 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:27 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:40 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:37 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:41 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:39 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:29 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:25 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:27 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:29 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:21 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:22 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Knox County were on the road by 7:28 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Knox County now leave 10 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Knox County's commute time compare?

Metric Knox County Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.2 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 22.4% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 3.2% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.2% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Knox County is 16.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.8% in Missouri. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Knox County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Knox County, MO is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,756 residents against a local median of 6,675. Where Knox County, MO breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 151% above the local median of 8.9% at 22.4%.

The counties themselves sit within 4.7% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Knox County, MO, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Knox County, MO has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Knox County, MO 3,756 16.2 min #4/6 22.4% #1/6 7:28 AM #4/6
Scotland County, MO 4,686 13.0 min 11.3% 7:22 AM
Shelby County, MO 5,986 15.3 min 6.6% 7:35 AM
Lewis County, MO 9,924 22.2 min 9.0% 7:22 AM
Adair County, MO 25,301 12.0 min 8.0% 7:44 AM
Clark County, MO 6,675 21.5 min 8.9% 7:26 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Knox County, Missouri.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Knox County, Missouri?

Commuters here spend an estimated 135 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,189 at a typical national wage. That's 23% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Knox County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Knox County, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Knox County, Missouri?

About 22.4% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Knox County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,675 at the same national wage assumption used above.

How do commute times compare across counties in Missouri?

Among counties in Missouri, the shortest average commutes are in Saline County (11.9 min), Adair County (12.0 min), Nodaway County (12.1 min). The longest are in Bollinger County (33.1 min), Ray County (32.2 min), Maries County (31.9 min).