Beaverhead County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Beaverhead County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beaverhead County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 93 hours, about 3.9 full days, spent commuting.

That is 30% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Beaverhead County holds about 0.9% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Beaverhead County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,155 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)
Beaverhead County	11.2 min	22.4 min	93 hrs/yr	$2,889	144
Montana	16.0 min	32.0 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,139	403
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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: Montana Counties

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On average, it takes 11.2 minutes to get to work in Beaverhead County. That's 50% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% of counties in Montana

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.5%
• Walked: 4.8%
• Other: 2.7%
• Public Transportation: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Beaverhead County, versus 0.1% in Montana.

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Beaverhead County, versus 0.1% in Montana.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Beaverhead County: 4.3 times less than the Montana average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

How does Beaverhead County's commute time compare?

Metric	Beaverhead County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.2 min	16.0 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.5%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	4.8%	4.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.6%	3.5%

The average commute time in Beaverhead County is 11.2 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

1.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Montana. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 4.0% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau