Gooding County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gooding County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gooding 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 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.9 minutes.

Gooding County holds about 0.8% of Idaho's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gooding County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,767 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)
Gooding County	17.1 min	34.2 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,416	821
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 17.1 minutes to get to work in Gooding County. That's 24% 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 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gooding County

• Car: 86.8%
• Worked at Home: 8.3%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 1.4%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Gooding County: 5.9 times less than the Idaho average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Gooding County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gooding 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	79.9%	9.7%	7.9%	1.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	82.7%	9.3%	6.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	81.6%	6.5%	9.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	81.3%	6.7%	9.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	83.6%	7.6%	7.2%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.8%	6.1%	6.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	85.9%	5.7%	6.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	89.3%	6.7%	2.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	89.8%	6.9%	1.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	90.6%	4.6%	1.7%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	86.6%	7.5%	2.9%	2.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.5%	6.1%	3.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.0%	8.5%	3.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.8%	10.8%	3.1%	1.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.5%	12.0%	3.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.8%	8.3%	3.4%	1.4%	0.1%	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 peaked in 2018 at 90.6%. Overall it rose from 79.9% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.9% to 3.4% of workers (down 4.5 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 12.0% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 8.3%.

Commute Start Times in Gooding County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gooding County?

The bars show when commuters in Gooding 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 Gooding County4.8% Idaho5.2%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gooding County5.2% Idaho3.5%	5.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gooding County5.9% Idaho5.1%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gooding County10.6% Idaho7.9%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gooding County12.1% Idaho10.3%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gooding County14.8% Idaho14.2%	14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gooding County12.3% Idaho14.5%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gooding County7.8% Idaho10.6%	7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gooding County5.0% Idaho5.4%	5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gooding County3.3% Idaho6.3%	3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gooding County2.5% Idaho3.3%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gooding County1.8% Idaho1.6%	1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gooding County3.4% Idaho6.3%	3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gooding County10.5% Idaho5.9%	10.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gooding County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 15.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Idaho: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Gooding 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 Gooding 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 Gooding 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Gooding County	Idaho	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:14 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gooding County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Idaho followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Gooding County now leave 15 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 Gooding County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Gooding County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gooding County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 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	8.3%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gooding County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 18.0 minutes in Idaho.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Idaho. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau