Livingston County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Livingston 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 Livingston County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Livingston 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 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.5 minutes.

Livingston 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 Livingston County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,395 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)
Livingston County	13.5 min	27.0 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,487	523
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

Saline County (11.9 min)
Adair County (12.0 min)
Nodaway County (12.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Missouri

Bollinger County (33.1 min)
Ray County (32.2 min)
Maries County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Livingston County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.5 minutes to get to work in Livingston County. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest 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 6.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Livingston County

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

Biking is unusually rare in Livingston County: 6.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Livingston County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Livingston 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	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.8%	5.5%	1.1%	0.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2010	90.3%	5.7%	1.3%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	92.3%	4.1%	1.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	90.9%	5.3%	1.9%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	90.2%	5.2%	2.5%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	89.4%	6.0%	3.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	88.5%	6.3%	3.1%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	88.0%	6.9%	3.5%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.1%	4.6%	2.7%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	90.3%	5.3%	2.0%	0.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.9%	4.9%	2.1%	0.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.8%	4.7%	1.2%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	92.3%	4.4%	1.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.3%	5.0%	0.9%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.9%	6.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	6.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2020 at 92.8% and lowest in 2016 at 88.0%. Overall it rose from 89.8% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, up 2.1 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Livingston County: its share of workers rose from 5.5% in 2009 to 6.1% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.5% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Livingston County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Livingston County?

The bars show when commuters in Livingston 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Livingston County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 10.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 58.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.8%) 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 Livingston 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 Livingston 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 Livingston 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	Livingston County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Livingston County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Livingston County now leave 6 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 Livingston County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Livingston County's commute time compare?

Metric	Livingston County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.5 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	6.1%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Livingston County is 13.5 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Livingston County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Livingston County, MO is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 14,364 residents against a local median of 8,927. The measure that sets Livingston County, MO apart most is work from home: 6.1%, 33% below the local median of 9.1%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 13.5 min against a local median of 17.9 min, 24% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 24% below the local median it puts Livingston County, MO at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 8.2% on work from home, so Livingston County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Livingston County, MO has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Livingston County, MO	14,364	13.5 min #1/6	6.1% #5/6	7:32 AM #6/6
Grundy County, MO	9,787	13.6 min	5.3%	7:25 AM
Carroll County, MO	8,411	17.9 min	8.7%	7:23 AM
Linn County, MO	11,852	15.8 min	9.1%	7:16 AM
Caldwell County, MO	8,927	30.9 min	10.4%	7:02 AM
Daviess County, MO	8,477	22.1 min	13.5%	7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Livingston County, Missouri.

Is living in Livingston County, Missouri good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,487 at a typical national wage. That's 36% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Livingston County, Missouri?

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

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).