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Morgan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Morgan 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 Morgan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morgan County spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 220 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Morgan County holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morgan County would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,733 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)
Morgan County 26.5 min 52.9 min 220 hrs/yr $6,834 1,030
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

Morgan County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 26.5 minutes to get to work in Morgan County. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 85% of 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 11.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morgan County

  • Car: 84.6%
  • Worked at Home: 11.6%
  • Other: 1.9%
  • Walked: 1.5%
  • Bicycle: 0.5%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Morgan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morgan 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 Other Walked Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 85.6% 7.5% 0.7% 4.0% 1.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 85.6% 8.3% 0.7% 3.5% 1.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 85.9% 7.7% 0.9% 3.4% 1.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 86.4% 7.6% 0.8% 3.2% 1.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 86.4% 7.1% 1.1% 3.3% 1.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 85.9% 6.7% 2.2% 3.6% 1.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2015 86.3% 4.9% 3.0% 4.1% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2016 84.6% 5.3% 3.7% 4.9% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 85.2% 5.8% 3.1% 4.2% 1.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 83.6% 7.1% 4.2% 3.8% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 85.7% 7.7% 2.6% 3.1% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 83.2% 11.0% 2.2% 2.4% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 84.4% 11.4% 1.8% 1.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 84.6% 10.9% 1.5% 1.9% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 85.4% 11.3% 1.1% 1.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.6% 11.6% 1.9% 1.5% 0.5% 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 2012 at 86.4% and lowest in 2020 at 83.2%. Overall it fell from 85.6% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 1.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morgan County: its share of workers rose from 7.5% in 2009 to 11.6% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.0% to 1.5% of workers (down 2.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Morgan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan County?

The bars show when commuters in Morgan 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
6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
8.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
14.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morgan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 50.4% 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County Missouri United States
2009 7:24 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:17 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:19 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:21 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:20 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:21 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:23 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:22 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:25 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:24 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:24 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:27 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:20 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:15 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Morgan County now leave 23 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 Morgan County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Morgan County in the whole series.

How does Morgan County's commute time compare?

Metric Morgan County Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 26.5 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.6% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 1.5% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Morgan County is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morgan County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morgan County, MO is typical in size for this group, 21,717 residents against a local median of 20,151, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Morgan County, MO's work from home, at 11.6%, runs 52% above the 7.6% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 26.5 min against a local median of 22.6 min, 17% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 17% above the local median it puts Morgan County, MO at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 4.1% on work from home, so Morgan County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morgan County, MO has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Morgan County, MO 21,717 26.5 min #5/6 11.6% #1/6 7:15 AM #3/6
Moniteau County, MO 15,262 28.0 min 8.7% 7:07 AM
Camden County, MO 43,667 18.8 min 10.5% 7:29 AM
Benton County, MO 20,151 23.9 min 7.6% 7:17 AM
Cooper County, MO 16,823 22.6 min 6.4% 7:14 AM
Pettis County, MO 43,397 15.8 min 7.0% 7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morgan County, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 220 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,834 at a typical national wage. That's 26% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Morgan County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Morgan County, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Morgan County, Missouri?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.8% in Missouri, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Missouri have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).