Bonner County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bonner County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bonner County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way.

Bonner 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 Bonner County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,849 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)
Bonner County	17.9 min	35.8 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,622	749
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.

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On average, it takes 17.9 minutes to get to work in Bonner County. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 12.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bonner County

• Car: 80.9%
• Worked at Home: 12.0%
• Walked: 2.6%
• Bicycle: 2.0%
• Other: 1.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Bonner County: 4.7 times less than the Idaho average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Bonner County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bonner 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.2%	5.4%	2.9%	1.5%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	88.6%	5.5%	2.3%	1.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	89.2%	5.5%	1.9%	1.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	87.8%	5.1%	2.7%	2.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	88.3%	5.3%	2.7%	1.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	87.8%	6.3%	2.6%	1.5%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	87.4%	7.2%	2.6%	1.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	84.8%	9.3%	2.5%	1.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	85.2%	10.2%	1.8%	1.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	84.8%	9.9%	2.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	84.0%	9.7%	2.8%	1.2%	0.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	85.7%	7.3%	2.8%	2.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	84.9%	8.4%	2.7%	2.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	82.0%	10.3%	3.3%	2.2%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	80.2%	11.6%	2.8%	2.5%	1.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	80.9%	12.0%	2.6%	2.0%	1.9%	0.6%	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 2011 at 89.2% and lowest in 2023 at 80.2%. Overall it fell from 88.2% in 2009 to 80.9% in 2024, down 7.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bonner County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 12.0% in 2024, up 6.6 percentage points.

Commute Start Times in Bonner County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bonner County?

The bars show when commuters in Bonner 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	12:00-4:59 AM Bonner County8.5% Idaho5.2%	8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bonner County4.7% Idaho3.5%	4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bonner County6.2% Idaho5.1%	6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bonner County7.9% Idaho7.9%	7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bonner County12.8% Idaho10.3%	12.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bonner County13.5% Idaho14.2%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bonner County14.6% Idaho14.5%	14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bonner County8.9% Idaho10.6%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bonner County4.5% Idaho5.4%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bonner County5.5% Idaho6.3%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bonner County3.4% Idaho3.3%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bonner County1.0% Idaho1.6%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bonner County5.1% Idaho6.3%	5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bonner County3.3% Idaho5.9%	3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bonner County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Idaho's: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.2%) 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 Bonner 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 Bonner 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 Bonner 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bonner County	Idaho	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bonner County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across Idaho, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bonner County now leave 16 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 Bonner County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Bonner County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bonner County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 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	12.0%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.5%	3.2%

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

0.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Idaho. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau