Stoddard County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Stoddard County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stoddard County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Stoddard County 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 Stoddard County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,150 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)
Stoddard County	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,375	476
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 20.8 minutes to get to work in Stoddard County. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 3.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stoddard County

• Car: 94.6%
• Worked at Home: 3.0% unusually low
• Walked: 1.3%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Stoddard County, versus 0.1% in Missouri.

Public transit is unusually rare in Stoddard County: 12.8 times less than the Missouri average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Stoddard County, versus 0.2% in Missouri.

Working from home is unusually rare in Stoddard County: 4.3 times less than the Missouri average (3.0% vs 13.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Stoddard County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.6%	3.4%	2.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	3.6%	1.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	93.7%	3.4%	1.4%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.3%	3.5%	1.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.1%	3.1%	2.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	94.1%	2.6%	1.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	94.3%	2.6%	1.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	93.2%	2.9%	1.9%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	93.7%	2.8%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	93.5%	3.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.4%	4.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	4.7%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	94.2%	3.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	94.2%	3.5%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	94.5%	3.2%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	94.6%	3.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share rose from 92.6% in 2009 to 94.6% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.3% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 4.7% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 3.0%.

Commute Start Times in Stoddard County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stoddard County?

The bars show when commuters in Stoddard 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 Stoddard County7.9% Missouri5.2%	7.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Stoddard County6.7% Missouri3.9%	6.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Stoddard County5.4% Missouri5.3%	5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Stoddard County8.7% Missouri9.0%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Stoddard County10.6% Missouri10.4%	10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Stoddard County16.7% Missouri15.0%	16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Stoddard County17.5% Missouri13.6%	17.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Stoddard County8.5% Missouri10.1%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Stoddard County2.1% Missouri4.5%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Stoddard County3.2% Missouri5.2%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Stoddard County1.3% Missouri2.6%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Stoddard County0.9% Missouri1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Stoddard County4.8% Missouri7.0%	4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Stoddard County5.8% Missouri6.9%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stoddard County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 19.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 53.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.0%) 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 Stoddard 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 Stoddard 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 Stoddard 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.

• Stoddard County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Stoddard County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 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	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:15 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stoddard County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Stoddard County now leave 18 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 Stoddard County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Stoddard County's commute time compare?

Metric	Stoddard County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 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	3.0%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stoddard County is about the same as in Missouri.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau