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Commuting in Taney County, 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 Taney County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Taney County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.3 minutes.

Taney County holds about 0.9% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Taney County would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,927 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)
Taney County 18.6 min 37.3 min 155 hrs/yr $4,817 806
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Missouri
  1. Saline County (11.9 min)
  2. Adair County (12.0 min)
  3. Nodaway County (12.1 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Missouri
  1. Bollinger County (33.1 min)
  2. Ray County (32.2 min)
  3. Maries County (31.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Taney County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Taney County. That's 17% 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 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Taney County

  • Car: 86.7%
  • Worked at Home: 9.0%
  • Walked: 2.3%
  • Other: 1.6%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Taxi: 0.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Taney County: 35.3 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Taney County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Taney 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.

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 Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle Public Transportation
2009 93.2% 4.7% 1.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 93.3% 4.4% 1.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3%
2011 92.1% 4.7% 2.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2012 92.7% 4.5% 2.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4%
2013 91.6% 4.1% 3.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.5%
2014 92.5% 3.3% 2.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 1.0%
2015 90.6% 4.5% 3.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 1.0%
2016 91.1% 4.2% 2.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.7%
2017 90.5% 4.9% 2.8% 0.6% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.7%
2018 90.4% 5.9% 1.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.8%
2019 89.5% 7.4% 1.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.5%
2020 89.9% 7.9% 1.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
2021 88.4% 8.8% 1.6% 0.6% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2022 88.5% 8.4% 1.8% 0.8% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2023 86.7% 9.8% 2.0% 1.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
2024 86.7% 9.0% 2.3% 1.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 93.3%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 86.7% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Taney County: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 4.3 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 3.3% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Taney County

  • Sleeping InThe highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Missouri's 115 counties: 29.8% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Taney County?

The bars show when commuters in Taney 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
4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Taney County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 9.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.8%) 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 Taney 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 Taney 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 Taney 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Taney County Missouri United States
2009 7:50 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:52 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:54 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:55 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:56 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 8:00 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:59 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:58 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2017 8:00 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:59 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:58 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:51 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:50 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:49 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:50 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:47 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Taney County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:50 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Taney County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Taney County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Taney County in the whole series.

How does Taney County's commute time compare?

Metric Taney County Missouri US Average
Avg. Commute Time 18.6 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 9.0% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 2.3% 1.8% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.8% 3.2%

The average commute time in Taney County is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Taney County, MO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Taney County, MO is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 56,523 residents against a local median of 32,050. Where Taney County, MO breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 15% below the local median of 21.9 min at 18.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 9.3 min on one-way commute, so Taney County, MO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Taney County, MO has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Taney County, MO 56,523 18.6 min #3/6 9.0% #5/6 7:47 AM #6/6
Christian County, MO 92,915 23.4 min 10.2% 7:25 AM
Boone County, AR 38,139 16.3 min 10.0% 7:32 AM
Stone County, MO 32,050 25.6 min 11.9% 7:32 AM
Marion County, AR 17,232 21.9 min 8.2% 7:14 AM
Carroll County, AR 28,630 16.6 min 11.2% 7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Taney County, Missouri.

Is living in Taney County, Missouri good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,817 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Taney County, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Taney County, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Taney County, 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.

Which counties in Missouri have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Missouri, the shortest average commutes are in Saline County (11.9 min), Adair County (12.0 min), Nodaway County (12.1 min). The longest are in Bollinger County (33.1 min), Ray County (32.2 min), Maries County (31.9 min).