Average for workers who did not work from home.
PLACE · MO · GEOID 29413482024 5-YEAR
COMMUTE PROFILE
Lee's Summit, Missouri
According to the 2024 ACS five-year estimates, residents here averaged 25.2 min one way; 20.8% worked from home, 71.4% drove alone, and 3.0% of commuters traveled 60 minutes or more.
Mean one-way trip25.2 min±1.6 min MOE
Worked from home20.8%±2.0 pp MOE
Drove alone71.4%±2.0 pp MOE
60+ minute trip3.0%among commuters
U.S. Census Bureau ACS estimates for residents age 16+ who work. Commute time excludes people working from home.
01 / THE SHIFT
What changed in Lee's Summit city's published commute estimate?
From the 2021 to 2024 overlapping ACS periods, mean commute changed -1.1 minutes and the work-from-home share changed +6.8 percentage points.
These periods overlap: 2021 covers 2017–2021 and 2024 covers 2020–2024. Changes are directional comparisons, not independent annual measurements.
Share of workers age 16+ who usually worked from home.
Public transportation excluding taxi.
Car, truck, or van—drove alone.
02 / MODE SHARE
How Lee's Summit city residents usually get to work
Driving alone was the largest listed mode at 71.4%; 0.1% used public transit and 20.8% worked from home.
Each share uses 52,764 estimated workers as its denominator. Categories shown here do not include every ACS mode.
03 / PEER CONTEXT
How Lee's Summit city compares with similar-size places
This place's mean commute is at the 55th percentile among covered 100k–500k places; each percentile describes one metric only.
Percentiles are single-metric context, never a “good commute” score.
Mean commute time is higher than about 55% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The work-from-home share is higher than about 79% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The public-transit share is lower than about 97% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
The 60+ minute share is lower than about 90% of covered places in the 100k–500k population band.
04 / ESTIMATE BASE
The counts behind Lee's Summit city's commute shares
The 2024 estimates cover 52,764 workers age 16+, including 41,790 workers with reported travel time and 10,974 home workers.
Population estimate103,656± 83 MOE
Workers age 16+52,764± 1,262 MOE
Workers with travel time41,790± 1,385 MOE
Estimated home workers10,974± 1,075 MOE
Why the ± matters
ACS values are survey estimates. The margin of error is the 90% confidence interval published by the Census Bureau or calculated for a share from published component margins. Small differences can be sampling noise.
05 / SAME STATE
All Missouri reports →Comparable Missouri commute records for Lee's Summit city
These 4 same-state records are the closest population peers available in the published dataset, not recommendations or a composite ranking.