Chouteau County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chouteau County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chouteau County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 132 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Chouteau County holds about 0.5% of Montana's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chouteau County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,638 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)
Chouteau County	15.9 min	31.7 min	132 hrs/yr	$4,096	48
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.

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On average, it takes 15.9 minutes to get to work in Chouteau County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chouteau County

• Car: 79.5%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 6.7%
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.3% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Chouteau County: 6.8 times more than the Montana average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Chouteau County: 11.3 times less than the Montana average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chouteau County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chouteau 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
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	74.2%	14.1%	8.5%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	1.5%	0.3%
2010	75.3%	12.6%	9.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	1.3%	0.3%
2011	75.1%	14.0%	8.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%
2012	74.8%	13.2%	8.4%	0.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2013	74.0%	14.0%	9.1%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	74.2%	14.3%	8.9%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2015	71.3%	15.8%	8.6%	0.6%	1.8%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%
2016	71.9%	14.3%	9.2%	0.6%	1.9%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%
2017	72.9%	15.3%	8.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%
2018	71.6%	15.4%	10.0%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%
2019	72.7%	14.5%	10.2%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	76.3%	11.2%	10.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	77.3%	10.9%	10.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	77.3%	11.9%	9.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	77.5%	13.0%	7.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	79.5%	12.5%	6.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2015 at 71.3%. Overall it rose from 74.2% in 2009 to 79.5% in 2024, up 5.3 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.5% to 6.7% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 15.8% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 12.5%.

Commute Start Times in Chouteau County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chouteau County?

The bars show when commuters in Chouteau 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 Chouteau County1.2% Montana4.0%	1.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chouteau County1.0% Montana2.7%	1.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chouteau County2.3% Montana4.0%	2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chouteau County7.0% Montana6.7%	7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chouteau County9.8% Montana10.3%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chouteau County18.5% Montana13.7%	18.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chouteau County14.8% Montana19.2%	14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chouteau County25.4% Montana11.7%	25.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chouteau County9.1% Montana5.7%	9.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chouteau County3.5% Montana6.3%	3.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chouteau County2.3% Montana3.3%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chouteau County0.2% Montana1.5%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chouteau County2.2% Montana5.7%	2.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chouteau County2.6% Montana5.2%	2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chouteau County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 25.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 4.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 68.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (10.8%) 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 Chouteau 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 Chouteau 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 Chouteau 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.

• Chouteau County
• Montana
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chouteau County	Montana	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chouteau County were on the road by 7:51 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). That goes against the trend across Montana, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Chouteau County now leave 13 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 Chouteau County has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Chouteau County in the whole series.

How does Chouteau County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chouteau County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.9 min	16.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	12.5%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	6.7%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chouteau County is about the same as in Montana.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 6.7% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau