Jerome County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jerome County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jerome 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 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Jerome County holds about 1.3% of Idaho's population and accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jerome County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,868 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)
Jerome County	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,670	991
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

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On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Jerome County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jerome County

• Car: 91.9%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Other: 1.0%
• Walked: 0.8% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Jerome County: 3.2 times less than the Idaho average (0.8% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Jerome County: 10.5 times less than the Idaho average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Jerome County: 8.5 times less than the Idaho average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Jerome County: just 0.9%, 3.7 times below the Idaho average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jerome County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jerome 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
• Other
• Walked
• Motorcycle
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	88.4%	6.0%	0.4%	4.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	89.2%	5.3%	0.4%	4.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	90.8%	3.6%	0.4%	4.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	91.6%	3.5%	0.6%	3.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.4%	2.9%	0.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.0%	2.2%	0.7%	2.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.9%	2.5%	0.7%	3.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.4%	2.5%	0.5%	2.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.5%	3.4%	0.2%	2.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	3.5%	0.3%	3.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	3.7%	0.2%	3.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.7%	4.3%	0.2%	2.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.1%	4.7%	0.3%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.2%	4.6%	0.5%	2.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	93.0%	4.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.9%	5.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 94.0%. Overall it rose from 88.4% in 2009 to 91.9% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.3% to 0.8% of workers (down 3.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Jerome County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jerome County?

The bars show when commuters in Jerome 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 Jerome County5.9% Idaho5.2%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jerome County5.7% Idaho3.5%	5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jerome County6.4% Idaho5.1%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jerome County13.2% Idaho7.9%	13.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jerome County10.7% Idaho10.3%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jerome County16.0% Idaho14.2%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jerome County12.3% Idaho14.5%	12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jerome County7.7% Idaho10.6%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jerome County3.6% Idaho5.4%	3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jerome County6.2% Idaho6.3%	6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jerome County1.1% Idaho3.3%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jerome County0.2% Idaho1.6%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jerome County4.3% Idaho6.3%	4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jerome County6.6% Idaho5.9%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jerome County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 18.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Idaho: 46.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.4%) 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 Jerome 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 Jerome 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 Jerome 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.

• Jerome County
• Idaho
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Jerome 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	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jerome County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 13 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 Jerome County now leave 23 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 Jerome County has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Jerome County in the whole series.

How does Jerome County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jerome County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

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

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Idaho. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau