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Ozark County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ozark 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 Ozark County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ozark County spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 250 hours, about 10.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 43% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Ozark 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 Ozark County would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,105 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)
Ozark County 30.1 min 60.1 min 250 hrs/yr $7,763 215
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

Ozark County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Ozark County. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 92% 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 14.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ozark County

  • Car: 82.6%
  • Worked at Home: 14.7%
  • Other: 1.4%
  • Walked: 1.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Ozark County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ozark 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 83.8% 6.3% 1.0% 8.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 84.7% 5.2% 1.1% 8.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 86.9% 4.7% 0.4% 7.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2012 90.2% 4.6% 0.4% 4.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 90.9% 4.9% 0.7% 3.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 93.3% 4.3% 0.7% 1.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.5% 4.7% 0.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 93.1% 4.4% 0.7% 1.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 91.3% 5.0% 0.7% 2.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 88.6% 5.2% 0.4% 5.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 88.6% 4.9% 0.5% 5.7% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 90.0% 3.4% 0.5% 6.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 85.5% 6.9% 1.5% 6.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 81.9% 11.6% 1.2% 5.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 84.4% 12.7% 1.5% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 82.6% 14.7% 1.4% 1.1% 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 2015 at 93.5% and lowest in 2022 at 81.9%. Overall it fell from 83.8% in 2009 to 82.6% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ozark County: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 14.7% in 2024, up 8.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.6% to 1.1% of workers (down 7.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Ozark County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ozark County?

The bars show when commuters in Ozark 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
5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
22.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
18.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ozark County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 16.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 57.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.0%) 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 Ozark 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 Ozark 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 Ozark 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 Ozark County Missouri United States
2009 7:11 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:14 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:13 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:07 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:14 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:10 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:11 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:06 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:17 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:27 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:31 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:28 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:29 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:33 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:22 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:16 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ozark County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Ozark County now leave 22 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 Ozark County has moved 15 minutes earlier.

How does Ozark County's commute time compare?

Metric Ozark County Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 30.1 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 14.7% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 1.1% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Ozark County is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ozark County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Ozark County, MO is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 8,873 residents against a local median of 40,383. Ozark County, MO's work from home, at 14.7%, runs 79% above the 8.2% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 30.1 min against a local median of 18.6 min, 61% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 61% above the local median it puts Ozark County, MO at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.0% on work from home, so Ozark County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Ozark County, MO has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Ozark County, MO 8,873 30.1 min #6/6 14.7% #1/6 7:16 AM #2/6
Douglas County, MO 11,965 20.8 min 11.0% 7:23 AM
Baxter County, AR 42,405 16.1 min 7.4% 7:26 AM
Marion County, AR 17,232 21.9 min 8.2% 7:14 AM
Howell County, MO 40,383 16.7 min 6.0% 7:18 AM
Taney County, MO 56,523 18.6 min 9.0% 7:47 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ozark County, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 250 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,763 at a typical national wage. That's 43% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

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

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

How common is public transit use in Ozark 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.

How do commute times compare across counties in Missouri?

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).