Lincoln County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lincoln County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lincoln County spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 267 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 78% more time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 14.0 minutes.

Lincoln County holds about 0.3% of Idaho's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lincoln County would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,306 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)
Lincoln County	32.0 min	64.0 min	267 hrs/yr	$8,265	498
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 32.0 minutes to get to work in Lincoln County. That's 43% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Idaho

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lincoln County

• Car: 89.8%
• Worked at Home: 5.3%
• Walked: 3.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Other: 0.8%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Lincoln County: 6.5 times less than the Idaho average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lincoln County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lincoln 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
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	80.6%	10.4%	4.7%	2.4%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	78.7%	11.2%	6.0%	2.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	79.4%	9.2%	6.5%	3.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	81.0%	5.5%	6.5%	5.2%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	82.8%	4.5%	4.7%	5.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	85.0%	4.5%	4.7%	1.2%	3.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	85.2%	6.4%	3.4%	1.3%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	84.3%	6.7%	4.1%	1.0%	3.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	85.7%	6.3%	3.4%	1.2%	3.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	86.3%	6.2%	3.2%	1.2%	2.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.8%	6.5%	3.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.6%	3.6%	2.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	91.4%	4.1%	1.9%	2.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.2%	5.1%	2.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	5.7%	2.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.8%	5.3%	3.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	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 2020 at 92.6% and lowest in 2010 at 78.7%. Overall it rose from 80.6% in 2009 to 89.8% in 2024, up 9.2 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 10.4% to 5.3% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 5.7% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Lincoln County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lincoln County?

The bars show when commuters in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County5.9% Idaho5.2%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lincoln County6.4% Idaho3.5%	6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lincoln County6.8% Idaho5.1%	6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lincoln County10.8% Idaho7.9%	10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lincoln County11.2% Idaho10.3%	11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lincoln County20.3% Idaho14.2%	20.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lincoln County10.4% Idaho14.5%	10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lincoln County8.6% Idaho10.6%	8.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lincoln County1.7% Idaho5.4%	1.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lincoln County3.0% Idaho6.3%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lincoln County1.1% Idaho3.3%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lincoln County0.8% Idaho1.6%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lincoln County2.4% Idaho6.3%	2.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lincoln County10.6% Idaho5.9%	10.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lincoln County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Idaho's: 50.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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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• Idaho
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lincoln County	Idaho	United States
2009	7:07 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:06 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:14 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:09 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:02 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:59 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:00 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:06 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:12 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:13 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lincoln County were on the road by 7:13 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:07 AM). That goes against the trend across Idaho, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lincoln County now leave 25 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 Lincoln County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Lincoln County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lincoln County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.0 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.3%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lincoln County is 32.0 minutes, longer than the 18.0 minutes in Idaho.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Idaho. 3.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau