Vernon County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Vernon County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Vernon County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Vernon County holds about 0.3% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Vernon County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,577 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)
Vernon County	15.3 min	30.5 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,943	425
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 15.3 minutes to get to work in Vernon County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% 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 11.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Vernon County

• Car: 82.7%
• Worked at Home: 11.8%
• Walked: 2.3%
• Other: 1.9%
• Bicycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Vernon County: 3.4 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Vernon County: 5.0 times less than the Missouri average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

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

Biking is unusually common in Vernon County: 5.8 times more than the Missouri average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Vernon County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Vernon 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.5%	8.7%	2.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%
2010	87.5%	7.8%	2.1%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%
2011	89.8%	6.1%	2.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	90.4%	5.2%	2.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	89.3%	4.9%	3.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%
2014	90.3%	4.1%	3.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%
2015	89.0%	4.9%	3.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
2016	87.7%	6.2%	4.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
2017	86.1%	8.2%	4.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	85.4%	10.2%	3.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	82.9%	12.5%	3.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	82.9%	11.8%	3.0%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.6%	13.0%	3.3%	2.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.2%	12.6%	2.8%	2.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.1%	11.6%	2.7%	2.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.7%	11.8%	2.3%	1.9%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2012 at 90.4% and lowest in 2021 at 80.6%. Overall it fell from 86.5% in 2009 to 82.7% in 2024, down 3.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Vernon County: its share of workers rose from 8.7% in 2009 to 11.8% in 2024, up 3.1 percentage points.

Taking a taxi lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Biking overtook taking a taxi to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.1% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Vernon County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Vernon County?

The bars show when commuters in Vernon 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 Vernon County6.9% Missouri5.2%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Vernon County4.1% Missouri3.9%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Vernon County4.5% Missouri5.3%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Vernon County12.7% Missouri9.0%	12.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Vernon County8.4% Missouri10.4%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Vernon County15.5% Missouri15.0%	15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Vernon County13.6% Missouri13.6%	13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Vernon County8.2% Missouri10.1%	8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Vernon County4.4% Missouri4.5%	4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Vernon County2.0% Missouri5.2%	2.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Vernon County1.7% Missouri2.6%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Vernon County2.0% Missouri1.2%	2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Vernon County8.0% Missouri7.0%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Vernon County7.9% Missouri6.9%	7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Vernon County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Missouri: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.6%) 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 Vernon 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 Vernon 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 Vernon 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	Vernon County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Vernon County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Vernon County now leave 12 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 Vernon County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Vernon County's commute time compare?

Metric	Vernon County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.3 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	11.8%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Vernon County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.2% 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