New Madrid County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in New Madrid County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in New Madrid County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.9 minutes.

New Madrid County holds about 0.3% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in New Madrid County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,766 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)
New Madrid County	17.1 min	34.2 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,415	465
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 17.1 minutes to get to work in New Madrid County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in Missouri

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in New Madrid County

• Car: 95.8%
• Worked at Home: 3.3% unusually low
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in New Madrid County: 3.2 times less than the Missouri average (0.6% vs 1.8%).

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

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

Working from home is unusually rare in New Madrid County: 3.9 times less than the Missouri average (3.3% vs 13.0%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in New Madrid County: just 0.6%, 3.3 times below the Missouri average of 2.0%.

Commute Mode Trends in New Madrid County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in New Madrid 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	92.9%	3.0%	3.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	92.8%	3.8%	2.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.7%	3.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	94.9%	2.0%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.5%	2.4%	2.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.0%	1.9%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	94.0%	2.7%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.5%	3.6%	3.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.3%	3.8%	3.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	92.4%	4.1%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	3.4%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	93.6%	3.4%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%
2021	95.4%	2.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	95.0%	3.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	95.5%	3.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2024	95.8%	3.3%	0.6%	0.2%	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 bottomed out in 2017 at 92.3%. Overall it rose from 92.9% in 2009 to 95.8% in 2024, up 2.9 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 0.6% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.0% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in New Madrid County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in New Madrid County?

The bars show when commuters in New Madrid 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 New Madrid County6.3% Missouri5.2%	6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM New Madrid County5.5% Missouri3.9%	5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM New Madrid County5.8% Missouri5.3%	5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM New Madrid County9.6% Missouri9.0%	9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM New Madrid County10.6% Missouri10.4%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM New Madrid County13.6% Missouri15.0%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM New Madrid County16.6% Missouri13.6%	16.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM New Madrid County9.4% Missouri10.1%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM New Madrid County2.9% Missouri4.5%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM New Madrid County2.5% Missouri5.2%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM New Madrid County2.7% Missouri2.6%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM New Madrid County1.0% Missouri1.2%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM New Madrid County6.2% Missouri7.0%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM New Madrid County7.4% Missouri6.9%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in New Madrid County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 New Madrid 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 New Madrid 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 New Madrid 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.

• New Madrid County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	New Madrid County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in New Madrid County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in New Madrid County now leave 11 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 New Madrid County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does New Madrid County's commute time compare?

Metric	New Madrid County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 min	21.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in New Madrid County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau