Pike County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pike 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 Pike County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pike County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Pike County holds about 0.3% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pike County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,936 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)
Pike County	18.7 min	37.5 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,841	423
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

Pike County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.7 minutes to get to work in Pike County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pike County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Pike County: 5.6 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Pike County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Commute Mode Trends in Pike County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pike 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	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.7%	5.2%	2.6%	1.0%	0.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.6%	6.1%	2.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.3%	5.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	91.6%	4.2%	1.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	90.6%	4.8%	2.0%	1.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	91.4%	4.2%	2.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	89.7%	5.7%	2.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	89.2%	6.1%	2.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	88.3%	7.4%	2.6%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.8%	6.9%	2.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.4%	7.1%	1.5%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	4.9%	1.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.8%	4.1%	2.3%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	93.1%	3.6%	2.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.3%	3.4%	2.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.6%	4.4%	3.2%	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 2023 at 93.3% and lowest in 2017 at 88.3%. Overall it rose from 89.7% in 2009 to 91.6% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Pike County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 3.2% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 7.4% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 4.4%.

Commute Start Times in Pike County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pike County?

The bars show when commuters in Pike 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		4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		29.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		4.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pike County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 29.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 19.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 55.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.5%) 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 Pike 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 Pike 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 Pike 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	Pike County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pike County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Pike County now leave 8 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 Pike County has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Pike County in the whole series.

How does Pike County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pike County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.7 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	4.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pike County is 18.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pike County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pike County, MO is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 17,710 residents against a local median of 11,426. The measure that sets Pike County, MO apart most is work from home: 4.4%, 47% below the local median of 8.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 18.7 min against a local median of 26.0 min, 28% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 28% below the local median it puts Pike County, MO at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 14.2% on work from home, so Pike County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pike County, MO has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pike County, MO	17,710	18.7 min #3/6	4.4% #6/6	7:30 AM #5/6
Lincoln County, MO	63,057	30.7 min	8.3%	7:16 AM
Ralls County, MO	10,428	18.7 min	7.6%	7:31 AM
Pike County, IL	14,468	18.2 min	5.9%	7:26 AM
Montgomery County, MO	11,426	26.0 min	9.0%	7:02 AM
Calhoun County, IL	4,330	43.8 min	20.1%	6:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pike County, Missouri.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 156 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,841 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Pike 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.

Do people use public transit in Pike County, Missouri?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.8% in Missouri, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).