Ripley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Ripley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ripley County spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Ripley County holds about 0.2% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ripley County would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,686 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)
Ripley County	26.0 min	52.0 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,715	232
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

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On average, it takes 26.0 minutes to get to work in Ripley County. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 83% 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 9.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ripley County

• Car: 85.6%
• Worked at Home: 9.7%
• Walked: 3.1%
• Taxi: 0.6% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Ripley County: 3.6 times more than the Missouri average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Ripley County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ripley 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
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	91.3%	3.4%	3.5%	0.0%	0.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.9%	3.2%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	94.2%	2.4%	2.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.0%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	95.3%	1.3%	2.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	95.9%	0.8%	2.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.9%	2.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.7%	3.4%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	4.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	90.7%	6.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	89.7%	8.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	88.7%	9.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	89.2%	9.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	88.3%	10.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	88.1%	9.6%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	85.6%	9.7%	3.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 96.0%. Overall it fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 5.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ripley County: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 9.7% in 2024, up 6.3 percentage points.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Ripley County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ripley County?

The bars show when commuters in Ripley 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 Ripley County7.8% Missouri5.2%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Ripley County5.8% Missouri3.9%	5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Ripley County6.1% Missouri5.3%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Ripley County7.7% Missouri9.0%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Ripley County9.6% Missouri10.4%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Ripley County16.6% Missouri15.0%	16.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Ripley County14.0% Missouri13.6%	14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Ripley County8.6% Missouri10.1%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Ripley County3.4% Missouri4.5%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Ripley County4.5% Missouri5.2%	4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Ripley County3.3% Missouri2.6%	3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Ripley County0.8% Missouri1.2%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Ripley County6.5% Missouri7.0%	6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Ripley County5.5% Missouri6.9%	5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ripley County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 48.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.5%) 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 Ripley 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 Ripley 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 Ripley 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.

• Ripley County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Ripley County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:13 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ripley County were on the road by 7:24 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Ripley County now leave 14 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 Ripley County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Ripley County's commute time compare?

Metric	Ripley County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.0 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	9.7%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ripley County is 26.0 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau