Webster Groves Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Webster Groves, 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 Webster Groves: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Webster Groves spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 156 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.

Webster Groves holds about 0.4% of Missouri's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Webster Groves would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,933 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)
Webster Groves	18.7 min	37.4 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,833	2,594
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.

Webster Groves Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.7 minutes to get to work in Webster Groves. 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 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 26.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Webster Groves

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Webster Groves: 231.1 times less than the Missouri average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Webster Groves, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Webster Groves 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.3%	6.7%	4.2%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	87.1%	7.2%	4.1%	0.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	87.1%	7.4%	3.4%	0.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	87.5%	7.3%	3.2%	0.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	87.6%	7.6%	2.6%	0.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	88.7%	6.8%	2.4%	0.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	88.5%	6.4%	2.5%	0.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	86.7%	7.2%	3.3%	0.4%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	86.8%	7.0%	3.2%	0.6%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	87.8%	6.2%	3.1%	0.5%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	86.5%	7.8%	3.1%	0.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	82.2%	12.6%	3.0%	0.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.1%	15.8%	2.3%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	77.8%	18.9%	2.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	74.7%	22.1%	2.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	70.6%	26.1%	2.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	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 2014 at 88.7%. Overall it fell from 87.3% in 2009 to 70.6% in 2024, down 16.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Webster Groves: its share of workers rose from 6.7% in 2009 to 26.1% in 2024, up 19.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.2% to 2.1% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Webster Groves

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Webster Groves?

The bars show when commuters in Webster Groves 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		3.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		2.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

Webster Groves Missouri Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Webster Groves is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.6% across Missouri. Early starts are less common than in Missouri: 6.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Missouri: 57.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.5%) 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 Webster Groves, 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 Webster Groves 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 Webster Groves 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	Webster Groves	Missouri	United States
2009	7:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:56 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:56 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:54 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:53 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:59 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Webster Groves were on the road by 7:59 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:55 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Webster Groves now leave 22 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 Webster Groves has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Webster Groves's commute time compare?

Metric	Webster Groves	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	26.1%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Webster Groves is 18.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Webster Groves, Missouri.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Webster Groves, Missouri?

Commuters here spend an estimated 156 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,833 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Missouri commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Webster Groves, Missouri?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Webster Groves, Missouri. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Webster Groves, Missouri?

About 26.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Webster Groves would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,933 at the same national wage assumption used above.