Bingham County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bingham 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 Bingham County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bingham County spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.

Bingham County holds about 2.6% of Idaho's population and accounts for roughly 2.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bingham County would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,890 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)
Bingham County	18.3 min	36.6 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,726	851
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

Bingham County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.3 minutes to get to work in Bingham County. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 70% of counties in Idaho

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 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bingham County

Biking is unusually rare in Bingham County: 80.0 times less than the Idaho average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bingham County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bingham 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	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.0%	4.2%	2.9%	2.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	89.2%	4.2%	2.7%	2.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	89.9%	3.9%	1.9%	2.5%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	90.3%	3.9%	1.5%	2.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	90.5%	4.0%	1.6%	2.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	89.9%	4.6%	1.2%	2.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	89.7%	4.0%	1.7%	2.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	90.2%	4.5%	1.6%	2.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	89.5%	4.8%	1.8%	2.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2018	88.6%	5.5%	1.9%	1.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2019	88.9%	4.7%	2.1%	2.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	89.9%	5.2%	1.3%	2.7%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	5.8%	1.1%	2.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	90.5%	6.1%	1.1%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.7%	5.9%	1.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	6.5%	1.7%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%	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 2023 at 90.7% and lowest in 2018 at 88.6%. Overall it rose from 89.0% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bingham County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 1.7% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bingham County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bingham County?

The bars show when commuters in Bingham 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		5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bingham County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Idaho. Early starts are about as common as in Idaho: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Idaho's: 51.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Bingham 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 Bingham 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 Bingham 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	Bingham County	Idaho	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 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	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bingham County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). Idaho followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bingham County now leave 5 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Bingham County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bingham County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.3 min	18.0 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	6.5%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bingham County is about the same as in Idaho.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Idaho. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bingham County, ID Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Bingham County, ID is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 49,662 residents against a local median of 33,153. Where Bingham County, ID breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 38% below the local median of 10.4% at 6.5%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 18.3 min against a local median of 13.9 min, 32% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 32% above the local median it puts Bingham County, ID at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 8.3% on work from home, so Bingham County, ID sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bingham 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
Bingham County, ID	49,662	18.3 min #5/6	6.5% #6/6	7:33 AM #3/6
Bannock County, ID	89,452	13.5 min	11.4%	7:51 AM
Jefferson County, ID	33,153	22.1 min	7.6%	7:33 AM
Power County, ID	8,133	13.9 min	9.7%	7:39 AM
Bonneville County, ID	129,518	16.0 min	10.4%	7:45 AM
Butte County, ID	2,683	13.9 min	16.0%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bingham County, Idaho.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 152 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,726 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Idaho commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Bingham County, Idaho?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Bingham 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.

Which counties in Idaho have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).