Ray County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ray 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 Ray County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ray County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 268 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 54% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 11.2 minutes.

Ray County holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ray County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,326 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)
Ray County	32.2 min	64.4 min	268 hrs/yr	$8,316	821
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

Ray County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 32.2 minutes to get to work in Ray County. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest 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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ray County

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Ray County: 5.9 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Ray County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ray 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.2%	4.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	4.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	92.5%	4.1%	0.8%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	93.4%	3.1%	0.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	93.6%	3.0%	0.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	93.7%	3.0%	0.8%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	94.0%	3.2%	0.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	96.1%	2.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	95.6%	2.6%	0.1%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.6%	3.1%	0.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.2%	3.5%	0.5%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.3%	5.7%	0.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	6.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.4%	8.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.3%	10.3%	0.6%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	10.6%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	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 peaked in 2016 at 96.1%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ray County: its share of workers rose from 4.9% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Ray County

Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among Missouri's 115 counties: the typical start is 15 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ray County?

The bars show when commuters in Ray 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		8.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ray County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 21.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 42.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.8%) 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 Ray 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 Ray 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 Ray 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	Ray County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:07 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ray County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:03 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Ray County now leave 19 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 Ray County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Ray County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ray County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.2 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	10.6%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ray County is 32.2 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.8% in Missouri. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ray County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Ray County, MO is typical in size for this group, 23,145 residents against a local median of 21,414, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Ray County, MO apart most is one-way commute: 32.2 min, 39% above the local median of 23.2 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 13.0 min on one-way commute, so Ray County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Ray County, MO has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ray County, MO	23,145	32.2 min #6/6	10.6% #2/6	7:18 AM #4/6
Caldwell County, MO	8,927	30.9 min	10.4%	7:02 AM
Lafayette County, MO	33,096	23.2 min	9.0%	7:16 AM
Clay County, MO	258,122	21.0 min	15.9%	7:30 AM
Clinton County, MO	21,414	27.2 min	10.0%	7:10 AM
Carroll County, MO	8,411	17.9 min	8.7%	7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ray County, Missouri.

Is commuting expensive in Ray County, Missouri?

Commuters here spend an estimated 268 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,316 at a typical national wage. That's 54% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Ray County, Missouri?

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

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).