Benewah County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Benewah County, Idaho: 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 Benewah County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Benewah County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% less time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Benewah County holds about 0.5% of Idaho's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Benewah County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,731 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)
Benewah County	16.8 min	33.5 min	140 hrs/yr	$4,328	295
Idaho	18.0 min	35.9 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,641	865
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: Idaho Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Idaho

Custer County (8.9 min)
Lemhi County (11.6 min)
Madison County (12.0 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Idaho

Camas County (49.5 min)
Boise County (38.0 min)
Lincoln County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Benewah County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.8 minutes to get to work in Benewah County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Benewah County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Benewah County, versus 0.2% in Idaho.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Benewah County, versus 0.1% in Idaho.

Biking is unusually rare in Benewah County: 15.6 times less than the Idaho average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Benewah County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Benewah 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.

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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.8%	3.2%	4.4%	2.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	87.3%	3.4%	5.2%	2.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	85.6%	4.2%	5.6%	2.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2012	85.9%	4.2%	5.5%	2.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2013	86.0%	3.6%	7.5%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	85.4%	3.7%	7.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%
2015	86.1%	3.9%	6.5%	1.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2016	87.5%	3.1%	6.3%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	85.5%	4.2%	6.9%	1.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2018	87.5%	4.7%	4.3%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.8%	0.2%
2019	88.6%	4.5%	4.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	89.0%	4.2%	4.0%	1.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	88.4%	6.0%	3.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	86.9%	7.2%	3.2%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	87.8%	7.0%	2.3%	1.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	87.4%	8.0%	1.6%	1.6%	1.3%	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 was highest in 2020 at 89.0% and lowest in 2014 at 85.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 87.8% in 2009 and 87.4% in 2024.

Working from home gained the most ground in Benewah County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 1.6% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Benewah County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Benewah County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		16.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

Benewah County Idaho Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Benewah County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.2% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 25.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Idaho: 42.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.8%) 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 Benewah 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 Benewah 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 Benewah County next to Idaho 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	Benewah County	Idaho	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Benewah County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). That goes against the trend across Idaho, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Benewah County now leave 13 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Benewah County's commute time compare?

Metric	Benewah County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.8 min	18.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	8.0%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Benewah County is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.0 minutes in Idaho.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Idaho. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Benewah County, ID Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Benewah County, ID is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,141 residents against a local median of 42,646. Benewah County, ID's work from home, at 8.0%, runs 19% below the 9.9% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 7.4% on work from home, so Benewah County, ID sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Benewah County, ID has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Benewah County, ID	10,141	16.8 min #4/6	8.0% #6/6	7:24 AM #1/6
Latah County, ID	41,044	15.6 min	9.9%	7:48 AM
Kootenai County, ID	181,718	18.6 min	15.1%	7:27 AM
Shoshone County, ID	13,782	13.4 min	8.1%	7:30 AM
Spokane County, WA	548,846	20.5 min	15.5%	7:35 AM
Nez Perce County, ID	42,646	13.5 min	9.3%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Benewah County, Idaho.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Benewah County, Idaho?

Commuters here spend an estimated 140 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,328 at a typical national wage. That's 7% less than the typical Idaho commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Benewah County, Idaho?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Benewah County, Idaho. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Idaho?

Among counties in Idaho, the shortest average commutes are in Custer County (8.9 min), Lemhi County (11.6 min), Madison County (12.0 min). The longest are in Camas County (49.5 min), Boise County (38.0 min), Lincoln County (32.0 min).