Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 47% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.8 minutes.

Lincoln County holds about 1.0% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln County would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,174 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)
Lincoln County	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,935	1,035
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 30.7 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 95% of counties in Missouri

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lincoln County

• Car: 88.8%
• Worked at Home: 8.3%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 36.9 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 7.6 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 28.6 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lincoln 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.8%	2.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	95.3%	2.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	95.0%	2.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	95.1%	2.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	94.8%	2.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	94.7%	2.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	95.2%	2.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	94.9%	3.3%	0.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	95.2%	3.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	95.3%	3.2%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.7%	3.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	93.1%	3.6%	2.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	92.6%	4.0%	2.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	90.3%	6.1%	2.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	6.6%	2.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.8%	8.3%	1.9%	0.8%	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 peaked in 2010 at 95.3%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 88.8% in 2024, down 6.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lincoln County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Lincoln County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln County?

The bars show when commuters in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County6.1% Missouri5.2%	6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lincoln County8.1% Missouri3.9%	8.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lincoln County6.5% Missouri5.3%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lincoln County9.9% Missouri9.0%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lincoln County9.9% Missouri10.4%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lincoln County18.2% Missouri15.0%	18.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lincoln County15.8% Missouri13.6%	15.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lincoln County3.8% Missouri10.1%	3.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lincoln County1.3% Missouri4.5%	1.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lincoln County3.1% Missouri5.2%	3.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lincoln County1.6% Missouri2.6%	1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lincoln County0.8% Missouri1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lincoln County7.9% Missouri7.0%	7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lincoln County7.1% Missouri6.9%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lincoln County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 20.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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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• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lincoln County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:01 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:05 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Lincoln County now leave 22 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 Lincoln County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 min	21.0 min	22.4 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%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau