Montgomery County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Montgomery County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montgomery County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Montgomery 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 Montgomery County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,687 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)
Montgomery County	26.0 min	52.0 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,718	451
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 26.0 minutes to get to work in Montgomery County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% 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 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montgomery County

• Car: 86.4%
• Worked at Home: 9.0%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Other: 1.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Montgomery County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montgomery 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.0%	5.4%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	4.6%	2.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.0%	4.0%	2.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	3.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.1%	3.3%	2.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.2%	3.0%	3.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	92.5%	3.6%	3.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	91.8%	3.9%	2.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	93.5%	3.1%	2.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	93.0%	3.4%	2.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	93.0%	3.5%	2.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	92.0%	4.1%	3.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	91.1%	4.9%	3.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	89.1%	7.4%	2.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.9%	7.9%	2.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.4%	9.0%	2.9%	1.7%	0.0%	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 2017 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 5.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montgomery County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Montgomery County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montgomery County?

The bars show when commuters in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County8.2% Missouri5.2%	8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Montgomery County11.9% Missouri3.9%	11.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Montgomery County9.6% Missouri5.3%	9.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Montgomery County11.3% Missouri9.0%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Montgomery County8.2% Missouri10.4%	8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Montgomery County13.3% Missouri15.0%	13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Montgomery County13.1% Missouri13.6%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Montgomery County7.4% Missouri10.1%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Montgomery County2.2% Missouri4.5%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Montgomery County1.7% Missouri5.2%	1.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Montgomery County1.8% Missouri2.6%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Montgomery County0.5% Missouri1.2%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Montgomery County4.7% Missouri7.0%	4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Montgomery County6.0% Missouri6.9%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montgomery County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 29.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 42.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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	Montgomery County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:58 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:59 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montgomery County were on the road by 7:02 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Montgomery County now leave 36 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Montgomery County's commute time compare?

Metric	Montgomery County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.0 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	9.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montgomery County is 26.0 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau