Pettis County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Pettis County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pettis County spend about 32 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.

Pettis County holds about 0.7% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pettis County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,629 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)
Pettis County	15.8 min	31.5 min	131 hrs/yr	$4,072	388
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

Compare commute times among different counties

N

On average, it takes 15.8 minutes to get to work in Pettis County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 86% 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 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pettis County

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pettis County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pettis 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	94.1%	3.2%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	92.7%	4.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	91.8%	5.2%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.8%	5.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	92.2%	4.8%	1.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	91.0%	5.5%	2.3%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.4%	4.6%	1.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.7%	4.3%	1.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.7%	4.3%	1.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.3%	4.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.9%	5.1%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.5%	5.5%	1.6%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.0%	5.4%	1.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	6.3%	1.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	90.4%	6.2%	1.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	88.7%	7.0%	2.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.1% in 2009 to 88.7% in 2024, down 5.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pettis County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Pettis County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pettis County?

The bars show when commuters in Pettis 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 Pettis County8.5% Missouri5.2%	8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Pettis County3.9% Missouri3.9%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Pettis County7.8% Missouri5.3%	7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Pettis County9.0% Missouri9.0%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Pettis County9.6% Missouri10.4%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Pettis County13.4% Missouri15.0%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Pettis County12.0% Missouri13.6%	12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Pettis County8.9% Missouri10.1%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Pettis County4.1% Missouri4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Pettis County3.2% Missouri5.2%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Pettis County2.2% Missouri2.6%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Pettis County0.7% Missouri1.2%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Pettis County8.5% Missouri7.0%	8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Pettis County8.4% Missouri6.9%	8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pettis County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 20.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 43.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Pettis 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 Pettis 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 Pettis 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.

• Pettis County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Pettis County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pettis County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pettis County now leave 13 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 Pettis County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Pettis County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pettis County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pettis County is 15.8 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau