Blaine County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Blaine 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 Blaine County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Blaine 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 31% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Blaine County holds about 0.6% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Blaine County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,148 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)
Blaine County	11.1 min	22.2 min	93 hrs/yr	$2,870	100
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

Blaine County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.1 minutes to get to work in Blaine County. That's 50% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of counties in Montana

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Blaine County

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Blaine County: 29.1 times more than the Montana average (1.5% vs 0.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Blaine County, versus 1.0% in Montana.

Commute Mode Trends in Blaine County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Blaine 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	79.3%	9.3%	10.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%
2010	79.0%	8.7%	10.5%	0.0%	0.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	80.4%	7.3%	10.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	77.9%	8.2%	11.0%	0.0%	1.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	77.5%	8.4%	11.5%	0.0%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	76.7%	9.6%	10.6%	0.0%	1.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	78.3%	10.1%	8.8%	0.0%	1.4%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	79.1%	9.6%	8.1%	0.0%	1.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	82.2%	8.6%	7.6%	0.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	83.0%	7.3%	7.4%	0.0%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	82.4%	6.9%	8.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	80.0%	8.2%	8.8%	1.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.9%	8.4%	6.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	75.2%	13.0%	8.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.3%	15.5%	7.5%	1.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.7%	16.6%	5.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.6%	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 2018 at 83.0% and lowest in 2023 at 73.3%. Overall it fell from 79.3% in 2009 to 75.7% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Blaine County: its share of workers rose from 9.3% in 2009 to 16.6% in 2024, up 7.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 10.2% to 5.1% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

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

Public transit peaked at 1.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Blaine County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Blaine County?

The bars show when commuters in Blaine 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		3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		38.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Blaine County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 38.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.2% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 6.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 74.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 13 commuters (7.5%) 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 Blaine 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 Blaine 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 Blaine 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	Blaine 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	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 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	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:40 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Blaine County were on the road by 7:39 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Montana, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Blaine County now leave 1 minute later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Blaine County's commute time compare?

Metric	Blaine County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.1 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.6%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	5.1%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Blaine County is 11.1 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Montana. 5.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Blaine County, MT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Blaine County, MT is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 6,948 residents against a local median of 5,905. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest counties, which makes Blaine County, MT an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% above the local median at 16.6% against 15.3%. Blaine County, MT has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Blaine County, MT	6,948	11.1 min #4/6	16.6% #3/6	7:39 AM #3/6
Phillips County, MT	4,221	11.1 min	18.7%	7:47 AM
Hill County, MT	16,155	12.1 min	5.1%	7:45 AM
Fergus County, MT	11,687	10.9 min	16.8%	7:34 AM
Petroleum County, MT	447	8.6 min	15.3%	7:07 AM
Chouteau County, MT	5,905	15.9 min	12.5%	7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Blaine County, Montana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 93 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,870 at a typical national wage. That's 31% less than the typical Montana commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Blaine County, Montana?

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

How much time do residents in Blaine County, Montana save by working from home?

About 16.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Blaine County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,148 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Montana?

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).