Wright County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wright County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wright County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Missouri average of 21.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Wright County holds about 0.3% of Missouri's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wright County would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,308 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)
Wright County	22.3 min	44.7 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,769	436
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 22.3 minutes to get to work in Wright County. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wright County

• Car: 89.4%
• Worked at Home: 7.4%
• Other: 1.7%
• Walked: 1.2%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Wright County, versus 0.8% in Missouri.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wright County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.3%	9.6%	1.2%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	86.2%	8.9%	1.1%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	88.3%	7.0%	1.0%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	88.1%	7.1%	0.8%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	90.0%	5.5%	0.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	90.6%	4.4%	1.2%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2015	88.3%	5.0%	1.9%	4.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	86.9%	5.9%	1.6%	4.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	87.8%	5.5%	1.5%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%
2018	88.2%	5.5%	1.3%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	88.4%	4.9%	1.5%	4.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2020	92.2%	3.7%	0.7%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	92.0%	4.0%	1.4%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	92.9%	3.5%	1.3%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.2%	5.6%	1.1%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.4%	7.4%	1.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2022 at 92.9%. Overall it rose from 85.3% in 2009 to 89.4% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.5% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Wright County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wright County?

The bars show when commuters in Wright 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 Wright County9.1% Missouri5.2%	9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wright County7.3% Missouri3.9%	7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wright County8.4% Missouri5.3%	8.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wright County8.0% Missouri9.0%	8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wright County9.2% Missouri10.4%	9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wright County18.9% Missouri15.0%	18.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wright County12.0% Missouri13.6%	12.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wright County8.0% Missouri10.1%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wright County1.4% Missouri4.5%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wright County2.9% Missouri5.2%	2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wright County1.1% Missouri2.6%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wright County0.9% Missouri1.2%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wright County3.3% Missouri7.0%	3.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wright County9.6% Missouri6.9%	9.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wright County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.0% across Missouri. Early starts are more common than in Missouri: 24.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Missouri's: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Wright 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 Wright 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 Wright 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.

• Wright County
• Missouri
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Wright County	Missouri	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:19 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wright County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). Across Missouri, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Wright County now leave 25 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 Wright County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Wright County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wright County	Missouri	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 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	7.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	1.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.8%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wright County is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 21.0 minutes in Missouri.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.8% in Missouri. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.8% in Missouri.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau