Minidoka County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Minidoka County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Minidoka County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Idaho average of 18.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Minidoka County holds about 1.2% of Idaho's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Minidoka County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,690 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)
Minidoka County	16.4 min	32.7 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,225	849
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 16.4 minutes to get to work in Minidoka County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Minidoka County

• Car: 93.0%
• Worked at Home: 4.7%
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.6% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Minidoka County: 4.4 times less than the Idaho average (0.6% vs 2.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Minidoka County: 18.8 times less than the Idaho average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Minidoka County: 586522.6 times less than the Idaho average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Minidoka County: just 0.6%, 5.6 times below the Idaho average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Minidoka County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Minidoka 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	4.1%	0.7%	2.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	4.1%	0.3%	2.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	91.5%	5.2%	0.3%	2.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.5%	4.6%	0.6%	2.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	92.4%	4.1%	0.7%	2.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.8%	2.8%	0.4%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	95.3%	2.3%	0.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	95.7%	1.9%	0.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	95.8%	2.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	95.6%	2.6%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	94.1%	4.0%	0.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	93.5%	3.7%	0.6%	1.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	92.5%	4.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	92.8%	3.7%	1.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	92.4%	5.3%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.0%	4.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.4%	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 was highest in 2017 at 95.8% and lowest in 2011 at 91.5%. Overall it rose from 92.1% in 2009 to 93.0% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Minidoka County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 4.7% in 2024, up 0.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Minidoka County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Minidoka County?

The bars show when commuters in Minidoka 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 Minidoka County3.7% Idaho5.2%	3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Minidoka County9.3% Idaho3.5%	9.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Minidoka County4.3% Idaho5.1%	4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Minidoka County13.6% Idaho7.9%	13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Minidoka County9.9% Idaho10.3%	9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Minidoka County10.4% Idaho14.2%	10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Minidoka County15.9% Idaho14.5%	15.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Minidoka County9.6% Idaho10.6%	9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Minidoka County2.9% Idaho5.4%	2.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Minidoka County5.8% Idaho6.3%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Minidoka County2.3% Idaho3.3%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Minidoka County1.2% Idaho1.6%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Minidoka County5.4% Idaho6.3%	5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Minidoka County5.7% Idaho5.9%	5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Minidoka County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.5% across Idaho. Early starts are more common than in Idaho: 17.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Idaho: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Minidoka 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 Minidoka 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 Minidoka 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Minidoka County	Idaho	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:41 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:41 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Minidoka County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). The shift is sharper than across Idaho, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Minidoka County now leave 11 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 Minidoka County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Minidoka County's commute time compare?

Metric	Minidoka County	Idaho	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.7%	13.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Minidoka County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 18.0 minutes in Idaho.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Idaho. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in Idaho.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau