Commuting in Fremont 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 Fremont County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Fremont County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 147 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.3 minutes.
Fremont County holds about 0.7% of Idaho's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Fremont County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,821 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)
Fremont County
17.6 min
35.3 min
147 hrs/yr
$4,554
665
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.
On average, it takes
17.6
minutes to get to work in
Fremont County.
That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.7% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Fremont County
Car:
84.1%
Worked at Home:
11.7%
Walked:
2.7%
Other:
1.0%
Bicycle:
0.3%
Public Transportation:
0.2%unusually low
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public transit is unusually rare in Fremont County: 3.3 times less than the Idaho average (0.2% vs 0.5%).
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Fremont County, versus 0.1% in Idaho.
Commute Mode Trends in Fremont County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Fremont 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
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
89.6%
6.5%
2.5%
0.3%
0.0%
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2010
88.5%
7.7%
1.7%
0.2%
0.1%
1.6%
0.1%
0.0%
2011
88.5%
8.4%
0.8%
0.1%
0.3%
1.6%
0.1%
0.0%
2012
89.4%
8.0%
0.7%
0.2%
0.3%
1.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2013
91.1%
7.2%
0.4%
0.5%
0.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2014
91.3%
6.6%
0.9%
0.4%
0.2%
0.4%
0.2%
0.0%
2015
90.4%
6.4%
1.4%
1.3%
0.2%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
90.5%
5.6%
1.7%
1.3%
0.2%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
89.1%
5.7%
2.5%
1.5%
0.2%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
90.6%
4.3%
2.5%
1.2%
0.2%
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
88.9%
6.4%
2.6%
1.3%
0.1%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
87.7%
7.4%
3.6%
0.3%
0.1%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
86.4%
9.1%
2.7%
1.4%
0.0%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2022
87.1%
9.8%
2.0%
0.7%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2023
82.6%
13.3%
2.5%
0.9%
0.4%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
2024
84.1%
11.7%
2.7%
1.0%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
0.0%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 91.3% and lowest in 2023 at 82.6%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 5.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.
Working from home gained the most ground in Fremont County: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 11.7% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).
Working from home peaked at 13.3% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 11.7%.
Commute Start Times in Fremont County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fremont County?
The bars show when commuters in Fremont 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 AMFremont County2.2%Idaho5.2%
2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMFremont County3.9%Idaho3.5%
3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMFremont County2.3%Idaho5.1%
2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMFremont County7.5%Idaho7.9%
7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMFremont County13.7%Idaho10.3%
13.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMFremont County21.2%Idaho14.2%
21.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMFremont County16.2%Idaho14.5%
16.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMFremont County9.2%Idaho10.6%
9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMFremont County5.7%Idaho5.4%
5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMFremont County5.2%Idaho6.3%
5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMFremont County3.5%Idaho3.3%
3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMFremont County0.8%Idaho1.6%
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMFremont County4.0%Idaho6.3%
4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMFremont County4.6%Idaho5.9%
4.6%
Fremont CountyIdahoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Fremont County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Idaho. Early starts are less common than in Idaho: 8.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Idaho: 60.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Fremont 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 Fremont 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 Fremont 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
Fremont County
Idaho
United States
2009
7:33 AM
7:40 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:32 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:35 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:33 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:34 AM
7:40 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:38 AM
7:41 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:37 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:33 AM
7:41 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:33 AM
7:40 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:32 AM
7:41 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:35 AM
7:40 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:34 AM
7:40 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:38 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:29 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Fremont County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). The shift is sharper than across Idaho, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Fremont County now leave 9 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 Fremont County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Fremont County in the whole series.
How does Fremont County's commute time compare?
Metric
Fremont County
Idaho
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
17.6 min
18.0 min
22.4 min
Departure Window
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
11.7%
13.3%
15.0%
Walked
2.7%
2.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
0.5%
3.2%
The average commute time in Fremont County is about the same as in Idaho.
0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Idaho. 2.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Idaho.
Fremont County, ID Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Fremont County, ID is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,943 residents against a local median of 33,153. The measure that sets Fremont County, ID apart most is one-way commute: 17.6 min, 20% below the local median of 22.1 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.
The counties themselves spread 19.8 min on one-way commute, so Fremont County, ID sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Fremont County, ID has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Fremont County, Idaho.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Fremont County, Idaho?
Commuters here spend an estimated 147 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,554 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Idaho commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Fremont County, Idaho?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fremont County, Idaho. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Do people use public transit in Fremont County, Idaho?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in Idaho, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
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).