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Madison County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Madison 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 Madison County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Madison County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 100 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.0 minutes.

Madison County holds about 2.8% of Idaho's population but accounts for roughly 1.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Madison County would save about 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,236 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)
Madison County 12.0 min 23.9 min 100 hrs/yr $3,089 959
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

Madison County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 12.0 minutes to get to work in Madison County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Idaho

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 13.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Madison County

  • Car: 70.5%
  • Walked: 13.9% unusually high
  • Worked at Home: 13.3%
  • Public Transportation: 1.0%
  • Bicycle: 0.9%
  • Other: 0.4%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Madison County: 4.2 times less than the Idaho average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually common in Madison County: 5.3 times more than the Idaho average (13.9% vs 2.6%).

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

Madison County stands out for active commuting: 14.8% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.4 times the Idaho average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Madison County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Madison 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 Walked Worked at Home Public Transportation Bicycle Other Motorcycle Taxi
2009 77.4% 14.0% 4.2% 0.9% 2.4% 0.3% 0.8% 0.0%
2010 76.9% 12.8% 6.1% 0.9% 2.2% 0.3% 0.8% 0.0%
2011 75.9% 13.5% 6.2% 0.9% 2.4% 0.3% 0.8% 0.0%
2012 74.7% 12.6% 7.2% 0.9% 3.2% 0.3% 1.1% 0.0%
2013 75.1% 10.7% 8.3% 0.7% 3.2% 0.9% 1.2% 0.0%
2014 75.3% 9.9% 9.0% 0.5% 3.4% 0.9% 1.1% 0.0%
2015 76.7% 9.6% 7.2% 0.6% 4.0% 0.7% 1.2% 0.0%
2016 78.2% 8.3% 7.5% 0.5% 3.7% 0.8% 1.0% 0.0%
2017 81.5% 8.7% 5.5% 0.5% 2.4% 1.0% 0.5% 0.0%
2018 82.6% 8.7% 5.6% 0.6% 1.7% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0%
2019 84.0% 8.5% 4.9% 0.7% 1.0% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0%
2020 83.0% 7.1% 8.2% 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
2021 84.2% 5.3% 9.3% 0.6% 0.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2022 75.3% 10.3% 12.3% 1.1% 0.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 73.9% 12.2% 11.6% 1.1% 0.9% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 70.5% 13.9% 13.3% 1.0% 0.9% 0.4% 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 2021 at 84.2%. Overall it fell from 77.4% in 2009 to 70.5% in 2024, down 6.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Madison County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 13.3% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Madison County

  • Night OwlThe latest start among Idaho's 44 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 8:21 AM.
  • Sleeping InThe highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among Idaho's 44 counties: 39.4% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.
  • Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among Idaho's 44 counties: the typical start is 11 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Madison County?

The bars show when commuters in Madison 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
4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
3.3%
6:30-6:59 AM
4.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
13.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
5.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
14.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
10.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Madison County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Idaho. Early starts are less common than in Idaho: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Idaho: 41.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (39.4%) 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison 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 Madison County Idaho United States
2009 8:10 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2010 8:11 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2011 8:09 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2012 8:05 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2013 8:00 AM 7:40 AM 7:39 AM
2014 8:05 AM 7:41 AM 7:39 AM
2015 8:06 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2016 8:11 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2017 8:09 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2018 8:08 AM 7:41 AM 7:37 AM
2019 8:14 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2020 8:09 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2021 8:07 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 8:24 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 8:26 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 8:22 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Madison County were on the road by 8:22 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (8:10 AM). That goes against the trend across Idaho, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Madison County now leave 44 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Madison County has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Madison County's commute time compare?

Metric Madison County Idaho US Average
Avg. Commute Time 12.0 min 18.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 13.3% 13.3% 15.0%
Walked 13.9% 2.6% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.0% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Madison County is 12.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.0 minutes in Idaho.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Idaho. 13.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Madison County, ID Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Madison County, ID is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 54,618 residents against a local median of 13,943. The measure that sets Madison County, ID apart most is one-way commute: 12.0 min, 46% below the local median of 22.1 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 13.3% against a local median of 10.4%, 28% above it. The counties themselves spread 15.8 min on one-way commute, so Madison County, ID sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Madison County, ID has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Madison County, ID 54,618 12.0 min #1/6 13.3% #2/6 8:21 AM #6/6
Bonneville County, ID 129,518 16.0 min 10.4% 7:45 AM
Teton County, ID 12,425 31.8 min 17.7% 7:32 AM
Fremont County, ID 13,943 17.6 min 11.7% 7:29 AM
Jefferson County, ID 33,153 22.1 min 7.6% 7:33 AM
Clark County, ID 848 22.3 min 9.4% 7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Madison County, Idaho.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Madison County, Idaho?

Commuters here spend an estimated 100 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,089 at a typical national wage. That's 33% less than the typical Idaho commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Madison County, Idaho?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Madison County, Idaho. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

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).