Beaverhead County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Beaverhead County, Montana: 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 Beaverhead County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beaverhead 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 25% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 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 40 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,238 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	12.0 min	24.0 min	100 hrs/yr	$3,096	144
Montana	16.0 min	32.1 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,143	403
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: Montana Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Montana

Treasure County (7.2 min)
Rosebud County (8.2 min)
Fallon County (8.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Montana

Broadwater County (30.3 min)
Stillwater County (27.8 min)
Granite County (23.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Beaverhead County

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Average commute time

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

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beaverhead County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Beaverhead County, versus 0.1% in Montana.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Beaverhead County, versus 0.1% in Montana.

Biking is unusually rare in Beaverhead County: 4.9 times less than the Montana average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beaverhead County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beaverhead 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	75.6%	9.3%	12.2%	0.5%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	76.4%	9.5%	11.1%	0.5%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	72.4%	10.9%	13.6%	0.7%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	75.9%	11.0%	11.4%	0.5%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	77.3%	11.2%	9.7%	0.6%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	77.4%	9.8%	11.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	76.7%	9.5%	11.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	78.4%	8.0%	11.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	78.5%	8.0%	10.8%	0.8%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	79.4%	6.8%	10.3%	1.6%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	79.9%	6.9%	10.1%	1.7%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	83.9%	6.0%	6.9%	1.9%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.9%	6.2%	5.5%	3.3%	1.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.6%	7.7%	5.2%	3.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.7%	7.5%	4.8%	2.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.2%	9.2%	3.8%	2.4%	1.3%	0.2%	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 83.9% and lowest in 2011 at 72.4%. Overall it rose from 75.6% in 2009 to 83.2% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Beaverhead County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.3% in 2024, up 1.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 12.2% to 3.8% of workers (down 8.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 11.2% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 9.2%.

Commute Start Times in Beaverhead County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beaverhead County?

The bars show when commuters in Beaverhead 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 Montana for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.7%

Beaverhead County Montana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Beaverhead County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.2% across Montana. Early starts are more common than in Montana: 12.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 58.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Beaverhead 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 Beaverhead 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 Beaverhead County next to Montana 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	Beaverhead County	Montana	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beaverhead County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:40 AM). That goes against the trend across Montana, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Beaverhead County now leave 5 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 Beaverhead County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Beaverhead County's commute time compare?

Metric	Beaverhead County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.0 min	16.0 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.2%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	3.8%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beaverhead County is 12.0 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Montana. 3.8% commute by walking, lower than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Beaverhead County, MT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Beaverhead County, MT is typical in size for this group, 9,712 residents against a local median of 9,223, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Beaverhead County, MT breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 21% below the local median of 15.1 min at 12.0 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 10.8 min on one-way commute, so Beaverhead County, MT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Beaverhead County, MT has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Beaverhead County, MT	9,712	12.0 min #2/6	9.2% #4/6	7:43 AM #3/6
Silver Bow County, MT	35,793	13.0 min	7.6%	7:51 AM
Deer Lodge County, MT	9,595	15.1 min	8.1%	7:38 AM
Madison County, MT	9,223	17.8 min	20.5%	7:44 AM
Clark County, ID	848	22.3 min	9.4%	7:20 AM
Lemhi County, ID	8,243	11.6 min	11.8%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Beaverhead County, Montana.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Beaverhead County, Montana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 100 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,096 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical Montana commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Beaverhead County, Montana?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Beaverhead County, Montana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in Montana have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Montana, the shortest average commutes are in Treasure County (7.2 min), Rosebud County (8.2 min), Fallon County (8.4 min). The longest are in Broadwater County (30.3 min), Stillwater County (27.8 min), Granite County (23.3 min).