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Perry County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Perry 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 Perry County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Perry County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 131 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Perry 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 Perry County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,625 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)
Perry County 15.7 min 31.4 min 131 hrs/yr $4,062 603
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

Perry County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.7 minutes to get to work in Perry County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 87% of counties in Missouri

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Perry County

  • Car: 92.3%
  • Worked at Home: 5.6%
  • Walked: 1.2%
  • Other: 0.7%
  • Bicycle: 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Perry County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Perry 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 Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 92.5% 2.6% 3.4% 1.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 92.0% 2.9% 3.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2011 92.5% 3.0% 3.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 92.3% 2.9% 3.5% 0.7% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 93.7% 3.3% 2.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2014 93.7% 3.6% 2.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 94.0% 4.4% 1.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 95.0% 3.5% 0.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 96.0% 2.8% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 96.0% 2.8% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2019 95.8% 2.7% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 97.1% 1.5% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 96.2% 2.2% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 95.5% 2.6% 1.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 93.3% 4.6% 1.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 92.3% 5.6% 1.2% 0.7% 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 was highest in 2020 at 97.1% and lowest in 2010 at 92.0%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 92.5% in 2009 and 92.3% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Perry County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 5.6% in 2024, up 3.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Perry County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Perry County?

The bars show when commuters in Perry 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
6.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
17.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Perry County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.4% across Missouri. Early starts are about as common as in Missouri: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 54.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.7%) 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 Perry 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 Perry 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 Perry 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 Perry County Missouri United States
2009 7:13 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:12 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:09 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:14 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:06 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:07 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:03 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:08 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:07 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:08 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:09 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:18 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:13 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Perry County were on the road by 7:13 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Perry County now leave 25 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 Perry County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Perry County's commute time compare?

Metric Perry County Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.7 min 21.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 5.6% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 1.2% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Perry County is 15.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Perry County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Perry County, MO is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 18,976 residents against a local median of 30,051. Where Perry County, MO breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 37% below the local median of 9.0% at 5.6%.

The counties themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so Perry County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Perry County, MO has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Perry County, MO 18,976 15.7 min #1/6 5.6% #5/6 7:13 AM #3/6
Randolph County, IL 30,051 18.3 min 5.3% 7:13 AM
Cape Girardeau County, MO 82,735 17.0 min 9.0% 7:30 AM
Ste. Genevieve County, MO 18,571 23.6 min 6.5% 6:58 AM
Bollinger County, MO 10,559 33.1 min 11.5% 7:08 AM
Jackson County, IL 53,061 16.5 min 10.8% 7:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Perry County, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 131 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,062 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Perry County, Missouri?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Perry 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).