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Commuting in Raytown, 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 Raytown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Raytown spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Raytown holds about 0.5% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Raytown would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,332 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)
Raytown 22.6 min 45.1 min 188 hrs/yr $5,830 1,521
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.

Raytown Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Raytown. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 11.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Raytown

  • Car: 86.2%
  • Worked at Home: 11.6%
  • Other: 0.8%
  • Walked: 0.8%
  • Motorcycle: 0.4%
  • Taxi: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Raytown: 58.5 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Biking is essentially absent in Raytown, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Commute Mode Trends in Raytown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Raytown 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 Motorcycle Taxi Public Transportation Bicycle
2009 95.2% 3.0% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.9% 0.0%
2010 94.8% 3.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6% 0.0%
2011 93.5% 3.7% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 2.1% 0.0%
2012 94.2% 3.2% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 1.9% 0.0%
2013 94.4% 2.8% 0.4% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 1.6% 0.0%
2014 94.8% 2.2% 0.7% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 1.4% 0.1%
2015 95.0% 2.3% 0.8% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.9% 0.1%
2016 95.0% 3.0% 0.9% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1%
2017 95.0% 2.7% 0.8% 0.6% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1%
2018 94.0% 3.0% 0.8% 0.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.9%
2019 93.7% 4.1% 0.5% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.7%
2020 94.3% 3.8% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.3% 0.6%
2021 92.3% 5.3% 0.7% 0.5% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.6%
2022 89.1% 8.7% 0.8% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.5%
2023 87.2% 10.6% 0.9% 0.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 86.2% 11.6% 0.8% 0.8% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 95.2% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 9.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Raytown: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 11.6% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Raytown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Raytown?

The bars show when commuters in Raytown 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
6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Raytown is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are about as common as in Missouri: 14.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 50.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Raytown, 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 Raytown 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 Raytown 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 Raytown Missouri United States
2009 7:28 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:29 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:31 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:31 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:36 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:40 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:32 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:30 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:36 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:30 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:31 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:36 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:37 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:35 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:32 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:33 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Raytown were on the road by 7:33 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Raytown now leave 5 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 Raytown has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Raytown's commute time compare?

Metric Raytown Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.6 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 11.6% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 0.8% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Raytown is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Raytown, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Raytown, MO is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 28,527 residents against a local median of 96,025. Raytown, MO's work from home, at 11.6%, runs 28% below the 16.2% typical of the cities around it.

The cities themselves spread 8.1% on work from home, so Raytown, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Raytown, MO has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Raytown, MO 28,527 22.6 min #2/4 11.6% #4/4 7:33 AM #2/4
Lee's Summit, MO 96,025 23.5 min 20.5% 7:35 AM
Grandview, MO 26,526 22.2 min 16.2% 7:39 AM
Independence, MO 120,545 22.8 min 12.5% 7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Raytown, Missouri.

Is commuting expensive in Raytown, Missouri?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,830 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Raytown, 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Raytown, 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.