Daniels County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Daniels County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Daniels County spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 87 hours, about 3.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 35% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Daniels County holds about 0.1% of Montana's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Daniels County would save about 35 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,077 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)
Daniels County	10.4 min	20.8 min	87 hrs/yr	$2,691	69
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 10.4 minutes to get to work in Daniels County. That's 54% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in Montana

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 walking. About 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Daniels County

• Car: 81.2%
• Walked: 10.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Daniels County: 1683.7 times less than the Montana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Daniels County: 1304.9 times less than the Montana average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Daniels County: 22489.0 times less than the Montana average (0.0% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Daniels County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Daniels 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	66.7%	18.0%	14.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	64.7%	18.6%	15.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	66.0%	18.5%	14.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	71.3%	17.5%	10.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	75.0%	14.0%	11.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	78.4%	12.1%	9.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	81.8%	11.1%	6.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	84.2%	7.4%	7.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	85.5%	5.8%	8.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	83.9%	5.7%	9.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2019	80.0%	6.5%	13.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	81.2%	5.0%	13.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	82.8%	6.1%	10.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2022	78.1%	9.4%	11.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2023	79.5%	10.0%	10.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.2%	10.3%	7.6%	0.9%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2017 at 85.5% and lowest in 2010 at 64.7%. Overall it rose from 66.7% in 2009 to 81.2% in 2024, up 14.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 18.0% to 10.3% of workers (down 7.7 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 15.7% in 2010 and has since fallen back to 7.6%.

Commute Start Times in Daniels County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Daniels County?

The bars show when commuters in Daniels 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 Daniels County0.8% Montana4.0%	0.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Daniels County3.4% Montana2.7%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Daniels County2.0% Montana4.0%	2.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Daniels County5.0% Montana6.7%	5.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Daniels County15.1% Montana10.3%	15.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Daniels County8.3% Montana13.7%	8.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Daniels County29.3% Montana19.2%	29.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Daniels County18.3% Montana11.7%	18.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Daniels County5.4% Montana5.7%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Daniels County3.0% Montana6.3%	3.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Daniels County4.6% Montana3.3%	4.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Daniels County0.8% Montana1.5%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Daniels County3.5% Montana5.7%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Daniels County0.4% Montana5.2%	0.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Daniels County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 29.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.2% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 6.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 71.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.3%) 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 Daniels 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 Daniels 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 Daniels 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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Show typical departure times by year

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

In 2024, half of commuters in Daniels County were on the road by 7:46 AM, 6 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 Daniels County now leave 8 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 Daniels County has moved 5 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Daniels County in the whole series.

How does Daniels County's commute time compare?

Metric	Daniels County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.4 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	7.6%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	10.3%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Daniels County is 10.4 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 10.3% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau