St. Francois County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in St. Francois County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in St. Francois County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

St. Francois County holds about 1.1% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Francois County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,853 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)
St. Francois County	17.9 min	35.9 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,633	1,517
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.

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On average, it takes 17.9 minutes to get to work in St. Francois County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in St. Francois County

• Car: 88.4%
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 1.6%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in St. Francois County: 3.8 times less than the Missouri average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Biking is unusually rare in St. Francois County: 3.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in St. Francois County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in St. Francois 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.8%	2.9%	0.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.7%	3.0%	0.3%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2011	94.6%	2.9%	0.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	94.5%	2.6%	0.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	95.5%	2.0%	0.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	96.7%	1.3%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	96.8%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	96.7%	1.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	96.7%	1.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.1%	2.0%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	95.3%	2.7%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	92.9%	4.2%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	92.4%	4.9%	0.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	91.7%	5.4%	0.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	89.4%	6.5%	1.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	88.4%	7.6%	1.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 96.8%. Overall it fell from 94.8% in 2009 to 88.4% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in St. Francois County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 7.6% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in St. Francois County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. Francois County?

The bars show when commuters in St. Francois 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 St. Francois County11.2% Missouri5.2%	11.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM St. Francois County3.9% Missouri3.9%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM St. Francois County7.3% Missouri5.3%	7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM St. Francois County7.7% Missouri9.0%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM St. Francois County9.6% Missouri10.4%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM St. Francois County16.4% Missouri15.0%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM St. Francois County10.4% Missouri13.6%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM St. Francois County7.5% Missouri10.1%	7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM St. Francois County4.1% Missouri4.5%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM St. Francois County4.3% Missouri5.2%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM St. Francois County2.1% Missouri2.6%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM St. Francois County1.1% Missouri1.2%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM St. Francois County7.6% Missouri7.0%	7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM St. Francois County6.9% Missouri6.9%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in St. Francois County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 22.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 43.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 St. Francois 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 St. Francois 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 St. Francois 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	St. Francois County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 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	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in St. Francois County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in St. Francois County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for St. Francois County in the whole series.

How does St. Francois County's commute time compare?

Metric	St. Francois County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.6%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in St. Francois County is 17.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau