Big Horn County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Big Horn County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Big Horn County spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 116 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Big Horn County holds about 1.2% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Big Horn County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,433 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)
Big Horn County	13.9 min	27.7 min	116 hrs/yr	$3,582	150
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

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On average, it takes 13.9 minutes to get to work in Big Horn County. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Big Horn County

• Car: 83.6%
• Worked at Home: 10.4%
• Walked: 5.4%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Big Horn County: 9.8 times less than the Montana average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Big Horn County: 22.3 times less than the Montana average (0.0% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Big Horn County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Big Horn 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.9%	9.3%	3.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	84.7%	9.1%	4.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%
2011	81.0%	10.6%	5.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.8%
2012	80.9%	11.5%	5.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2013	79.4%	12.8%	6.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	78.2%	14.0%	5.4%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	79.2%	13.4%	5.0%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	80.0%	12.4%	6.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	81.1%	10.0%	7.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	81.3%	9.5%	7.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	84.5%	7.8%	5.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	85.6%	9.4%	3.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.4%	10.0%	4.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	84.1%	11.3%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.3%	10.7%	3.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.6%	10.4%	5.4%	0.5%	0.1%	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 bottomed out in 2014 at 78.2%. Overall it fell from 85.9% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 2.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Big Horn County: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 14.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 10.4%.

Commute Start Times in Big Horn County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Big Horn County?

The bars show when commuters in Big Horn 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	12:00-4:59 AM Big Horn County4.9% Montana4.0%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Big Horn County4.1% Montana2.7%	4.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Big Horn County5.9% Montana4.0%	5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Big Horn County10.3% Montana6.7%	10.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Big Horn County10.4% Montana10.3%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Big Horn County20.0% Montana13.7%	20.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Big Horn County19.3% Montana19.2%	19.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Big Horn County8.5% Montana11.7%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Big Horn County2.2% Montana5.7%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Big Horn County3.9% Montana6.3%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Big Horn County1.8% Montana3.3%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Big Horn County0.7% Montana1.5%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Big Horn County3.8% Montana5.7%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Big Horn County4.1% Montana5.2%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Big Horn County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.7% across Montana. Early starts are more common than in Montana: 14.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 58.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.3%) 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 Big Horn 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 Big Horn 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 Big Horn 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Big Horn County	Montana	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Big Horn County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across Montana, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Big Horn County now leave 16 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 Big Horn County has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Big Horn County in the whole series.

How does Big Horn County's commute time compare?

Metric	Big Horn County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.9 min	16.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.4%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	5.4%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Big Horn County is 13.9 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 5.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau