Osage County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Osage 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 Osage County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Osage County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Osage 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 Osage County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,357 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)
Osage County	22.8 min	45.6 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,892	325
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

Osage County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.8 minutes to get to work in Osage County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% 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 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Osage County

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

Commute Mode Trends in Osage County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Osage 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	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	87.9%	9.1%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.1%	7.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.0%	6.5%	1.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.5%	5.9%	2.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.6%	5.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.9%	4.1%	2.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.8%	3.2%	1.7%	0.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	94.8%	2.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.3%	2.8%	1.3%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.6%	2.8%	2.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.4%	2.8%	2.1%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.2%	4.2%	2.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.4%	4.9%	2.2%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.0%	6.6%	1.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	6.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.7%	7.4%	1.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 94.8%. Overall it rose from 87.9% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Osage County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.0% in 2024, up 1.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 9.1% to 7.4% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Osage County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Osage County?

The bars show when commuters in Osage 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		3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		14.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		15.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		24.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		4.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Osage County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 24.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 58.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.7%) 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 Osage 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 Osage 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 Osage 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	Osage County	Missouri	United States
2009	6:57 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:59 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:57 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:59 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:02 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:06 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:08 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Osage County were on the road by 7:08 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (6:57 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Osage County now leave 30 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 Osage County has moved 10 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Osage County in the whole series.

How does Osage County's commute time compare?

Metric	Osage County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 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	7.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Osage County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Osage County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Osage County, MO is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,402 residents against a local median of 44,740. The measure that sets Osage County, MO apart most is one-way commute: 22.8 min, 25% above the local median of 18.2 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 16.3 min on one-way commute, so Osage County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Osage County, MO has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Osage County, MO	13,402	22.8 min #5/6	7.4% #3/6	7:08 AM #2/6
Maries County, MO	8,450	31.9 min	6.8%	7:01 AM
Gasconade County, MO	14,746	18.2 min	5.2%	7:09 AM
Callaway County, MO	44,740	21.2 min	10.0%	7:17 AM
Cole County, MO	77,032	16.1 min	9.2%	7:29 AM
Phelps County, MO	45,194	15.5 min	7.4%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Osage County, Missouri.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Osage County, Missouri?

Commuters here spend an estimated 190 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,892 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Osage County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Osage 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.

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).