Sioux County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sioux County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sioux County spend about 20 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 84 hours, about 3.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the Iowa average of 17.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.8 minutes.

Sioux County holds about 1.1% of Iowa's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sioux County would save about 34 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,046 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)
Sioux County	10.1 min	20.2 min	84 hrs/yr	$2,615	362
Iowa	17.0 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,382	606
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: Iowa Counties

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On average, it takes 10.1 minutes to get to work in Sioux County. That's 55% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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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 12.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sioux County

• Car: 82.0%
• Worked at Home: 12.8%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Sioux County: 9.3 times less than the Iowa average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Sioux County, versus 0.2% in Iowa.

Commute Mode Trends in Sioux County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sioux 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	88.4%	6.3%	3.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	79.3%	13.1%	4.8%	0.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	79.1%	13.3%	5.3%	0.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	79.9%	13.4%	4.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	80.8%	12.4%	4.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	82.2%	11.5%	4.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	82.7%	10.6%	4.7%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	83.1%	10.9%	4.1%	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	84.5%	10.2%	3.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	84.7%	10.1%	3.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	84.6%	10.0%	4.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	83.6%	12.0%	2.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	83.2%	12.6%	2.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	82.9%	12.7%	3.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	81.7%	13.3%	3.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	82.0%	12.8%	3.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2011 at 79.1%. Overall it fell from 88.4% in 2009 to 82.0% in 2024, down 6.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sioux County: its share of workers rose from 6.3% in 2009 to 12.8% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 5.3% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 3.4%.

Commute Start Times in Sioux County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sioux County?

The bars show when commuters in Sioux 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 Iowa for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Sioux County2.3% Iowa5.2%	2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sioux County3.6% Iowa4.1%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sioux County5.1% Iowa5.7%	5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sioux County8.1% Iowa8.2%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sioux County15.0% Iowa11.2%	15.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sioux County16.2% Iowa15.1%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sioux County19.2% Iowa15.6%	19.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sioux County9.7% Iowa9.1%	9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sioux County3.2% Iowa3.6%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sioux County3.0% Iowa4.4%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sioux County1.1% Iowa2.3%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sioux County0.4% Iowa1.1%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sioux County5.9% Iowa7.5%	5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sioux County7.2% Iowa6.8%	7.2%

Sioux County Iowa Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Sioux County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.6% across Iowa. Early starts are less common than in Iowa: 11.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Iowa: 60.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Sioux 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 Sioux 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 Sioux County next to Iowa 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	Sioux County	Iowa	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sioux County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Iowa, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Sioux County now leave 8 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 Sioux County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Sioux County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sioux County	Iowa	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.1 min	17.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.8%	11.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	2.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sioux County is 10.1 minutes, shorter than the 17.0 minutes in Iowa.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.7% in Iowa. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.9% in Iowa.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau