Scott County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Scott County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Scott County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Scott County holds about 0.6% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Scott County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,682 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)
Scott County	16.3 min	32.6 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,205	812
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 16.3 minutes to get to work in Scott County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 82% of counties in Missouri

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 Scott County

• Car: 93.3%
• Worked at Home: 4.4%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Scott County: 74.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Scott County: 4.1 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Scott County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Scott 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	92.0%	5.2%	0.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	92.1%	5.1%	0.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2011	93.8%	3.8%	0.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2012	93.8%	4.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2013	93.8%	4.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.1%
2014	93.7%	4.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%
2015	94.2%	4.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	94.2%	3.8%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.9%	3.6%	0.5%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	93.5%	3.9%	0.5%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	95.2%	3.0%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	94.7%	3.5%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	94.7%	3.4%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.2%	4.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.7%	4.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.3%	4.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2019 at 95.2%. Overall it rose from 92.0% in 2009 to 93.3% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.2% to 4.4% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Scott County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Scott County?

The bars show when commuters in Scott 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 Scott County4.7% Missouri5.2%	4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Scott County4.8% Missouri3.9%	4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Scott County6.6% Missouri5.3%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Scott County7.8% Missouri9.0%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Scott County12.7% Missouri10.4%	12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Scott County15.6% Missouri15.0%	15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Scott County16.5% Missouri13.6%	16.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Scott County8.2% Missouri10.1%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Scott County4.5% Missouri4.5%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Scott County3.0% Missouri5.2%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Scott County0.9% Missouri2.6%	0.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Scott County0.9% Missouri1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Scott County7.0% Missouri7.0%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Scott County6.8% Missouri6.9%	6.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Scott County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 53.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.6%) 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 Scott 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 Scott 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 Scott 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.

• Scott County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Scott County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Scott County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Scott County now leave 12 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Scott County's commute time compare?

Metric	Scott County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.3 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	0.8%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Scott County is 16.3 minutes, shorter 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