Maries County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Maries County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Maries County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 266 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 52% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 10.9 minutes.

Maries County holds about 0.1% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Maries County would save about 106 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,293 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)
Maries County	31.9 min	63.7 min	266 hrs/yr	$8,232	496
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 31.9 minutes to get to work in Maries County. That's 42% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Missouri

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Maries County

• Car: 90.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.8%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Other: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is essentially absent in Maries County, versus 0.8% in Missouri.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Maries County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Maries 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
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.1%	7.9%	2.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.1%	9.0%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	90.8%	6.9%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.5%	7.9%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.2%	7.3%	1.7%	0.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.2%	6.4%	3.1%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	88.2%	7.2%	2.8%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.4%	8.3%	3.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	87.5%	7.8%	2.5%	1.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.9%	8.0%	2.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.8%	7.3%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	6.1%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.2%	8.6%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.0%	5.3%	3.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.9%	6.1%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.9%	6.8%	1.2%	0.9%	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 2023 at 91.9% and lowest in 2016 at 86.4%. Overall it rose from 89.1% in 2009 to 90.9% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.9% to 6.8% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 3.3% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Maries County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Maries County?

The bars show when commuters in Maries 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 Maries County7.4% Missouri5.2%	7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Maries County7.5% Missouri3.9%	7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Maries County11.0% Missouri5.3%	11.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Maries County11.0% Missouri9.0%	11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Maries County12.7% Missouri10.4%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Maries County15.0% Missouri15.0%	15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Maries County11.7% Missouri13.6%	11.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Maries County4.3% Missouri10.1%	4.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Maries County1.9% Missouri4.5%	1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Maries County3.8% Missouri5.2%	3.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Maries County2.8% Missouri2.6%	2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Maries County0.7% Missouri1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Maries County6.9% Missouri7.0%	6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Maries County3.3% Missouri6.9%	3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Maries County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 25.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 43.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.5%) 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 Maries 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 Maries 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 Maries 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	Maries County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:07 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:01 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Maries County were on the road by 7:01 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Maries County now leave 37 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 Maries County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Maries County's commute time compare?

Metric	Maries County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.9 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Maries County is 31.9 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau