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Commuting in Boundary 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 Boundary County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Boundary County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Boundary County holds about 0.7% of Idaho's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Boundary County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,654 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)
Boundary County 16.0 min 32.0 min 133 hrs/yr $4,136 52
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
  1. Custer County (8.9 min)
  2. Lemhi County (11.6 min)
  3. Madison County (12.0 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Idaho
  1. Camas County (49.5 min)
  2. Boise County (38.0 min)
  3. Lincoln County (32.0 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Boundary County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.0 minutes to get to work in Boundary County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Boundary County

  • Car: 83.8%
  • Worked at Home: 10.4%
  • Walked: 4.6%
  • Bicycle: 0.8%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Boundary County, versus 0.5% in Idaho.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Boundary County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Boundary 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 Bicycle Other Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 84.4% 8.9% 5.7% 0.0% 0.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 87.2% 8.1% 4.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 85.2% 7.4% 5.8% 0.0% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 84.7% 7.7% 6.1% 0.0% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 83.6% 9.1% 4.5% 0.0% 2.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 86.4% 8.6% 3.1% 0.0% 1.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 87.3% 7.7% 3.5% 0.0% 1.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 88.0% 7.5% 3.7% 0.0% 0.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 87.6% 8.0% 3.6% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 88.0% 7.6% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 88.8% 6.9% 3.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 87.1% 7.2% 4.6% 0.7% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 87.3% 7.5% 3.8% 1.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 87.4% 5.2% 5.7% 1.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 85.6% 8.5% 4.9% 0.8% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 83.8% 10.4% 4.6% 0.8% 0.3% 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 2019 at 88.8% and lowest in 2013 at 83.6%. Overall it fell from 84.4% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 0.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Boundary County: its share of workers rose from 8.9% in 2009 to 10.4% in 2024, up 1.5 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 5.7% to 4.6% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Biking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Boundary County

  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe 3rd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Idaho's 44 counties: only 40.6% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Boundary County?

The bars show when commuters in Boundary 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
5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
7.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
4.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
5.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
10.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Boundary County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.3% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 18.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Idaho: 40.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.9%) 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 Boundary 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 Boundary 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 Boundary 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 Boundary County Idaho United States
2009 7:15 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:18 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:07 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:13 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:24 AM 7:40 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:08 AM 7:41 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:16 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:15 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:08 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:14 AM 7:41 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:19 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:20 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:16 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:10 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:13 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:17 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Boundary County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). That goes against the trend across Idaho, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Boundary County now leave 21 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 Boundary County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Boundary County's commute time compare?

Metric Boundary County Idaho US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.0 min 18.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 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 10.4% 13.3% 15.0%
Walked 4.6% 2.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Boundary County is 16.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.0 minutes in Idaho.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Idaho. 4.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Boundary County, ID Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Boundary County, ID is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,172 residents against a local median of 48,063. Where Boundary County, ID breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 22% below the local median of 13.4% at 10.4%.

The counties themselves spread 4.3% on work from home, so Boundary County, ID sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Boundary 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
Boundary County, ID 13,172 16.0 min #2/6 10.4% #6/6 7:17 AM #2/6
Bonner County, ID 51,033 17.9 min 12.0% 7:22 AM
Pend Oreille County, WA 14,050 21.8 min 13.4% 7:20 AM
Lincoln County, MT 21,175 11.2 min 15.5% 7:32 AM
Kootenai County, ID 181,718 18.6 min 15.1% 7:27 AM
Stevens County, WA 48,063 23.2 min 11.1% 7:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Boundary County, Idaho.

Is commuting expensive in Boundary County, Idaho?

Commuters here spend an estimated 133 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,136 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Idaho commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Boundary County, Idaho?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Boundary 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.

Do people use public transit in Boundary County, Idaho?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in Idaho, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).