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Granite County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Granite 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 Granite County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Granite County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% more time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Granite County holds about 0.3% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Granite County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,406 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)
Granite County 23.3 min 46.6 min 194 hrs/yr $6,014 157
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
  1. Treasure County (7.2 min)
  2. Rosebud County (8.2 min)
  3. Fallon County (8.4 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Montana
  1. Broadwater County (30.3 min)
  2. Stillwater County (27.8 min)
  3. Granite County (23.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Granite County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.3 minutes to get to work in Granite County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Montana

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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Granite County

  • Car: 83.4%
  • Worked at Home: 9.9%
  • Walked: 5.9%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Bicycle: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Granite County, versus 0.6% in Montana.

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

Commute Mode Trends in Granite County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Granite 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 72.9% 8.8% 12.4% 2.5% 0.3% 2.6% 0.0% 0.5%
2010 77.9% 7.8% 9.7% 1.8% 0.3% 2.1% 0.0% 0.4%
2011 79.6% 7.7% 9.7% 0.9% 0.3% 1.8% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 78.1% 9.6% 8.1% 1.0% 0.3% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 79.7% 10.3% 8.9% 0.2% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 80.8% 10.7% 7.5% 0.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 78.5% 11.5% 9.0% 0.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 76.7% 10.6% 11.2% 1.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 76.2% 10.1% 12.9% 0.5% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 73.4% 10.6% 14.4% 1.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 69.8% 14.7% 13.9% 1.1% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 73.1% 10.6% 13.9% 1.7% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 73.2% 11.6% 12.4% 2.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 76.1% 10.5% 10.5% 2.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 82.7% 10.8% 5.9% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 83.4% 9.9% 5.9% 0.5% 0.3% 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 2019 at 69.8%. Overall it rose from 72.9% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, up 10.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Granite County: its share of workers rose from 8.8% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 12.4% to 5.9% of workers (down 6.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 14.7% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 9.9%.

Commute Start Times in Granite County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Granite County?

The bars show when commuters in Granite 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
1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
8.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
23.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
0.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
1.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Granite County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.7% across Montana. Early starts are more common than in Montana: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 60.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.1%) 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 Granite 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 Granite 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 Granite 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 Granite County Montana United States
2009 7:39 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:44 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:47 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:45 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:51 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:43 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:41 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:34 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:38 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:39 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:38 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:26 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:25 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:18 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:22 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Granite County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across Montana, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Granite 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 Granite County has moved 17 minutes earlier.

How does Granite County's commute time compare?

Metric Granite County Montana US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.3 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 9.9% 12.5% 15.0%
Walked 5.9% 3.9% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Granite County is 23.3 minutes, longer than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 5.9% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Granite County, MT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Granite County, MT is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,462 residents against a local median of 35,793. Granite County, MT's one-way commute, at 23.3 min, runs 54% above the 15.1 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 6.4 min on one-way commute, so Granite County, MT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Granite County, MT has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Granite County, MT 3,462 23.3 min #6/6 9.9% #3/6 7:22 AM #1/6
Deer Lodge County, MT 9,595 15.1 min 8.1% 7:38 AM
Powell County, MT 7,053 12.1 min 9.4% 7:53 AM
Ravalli County, MT 46,722 18.5 min 14.2% 7:46 AM
Missoula County, MT 120,671 16.1 min 14.6% 7:57 AM
Silver Bow County, MT 35,793 13.0 min 7.6% 7:51 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Granite County, Montana.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Granite County, Montana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,014 at a typical national wage. That's 45% more than the typical Montana commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Granite County, Montana?

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

Do people use public transit in Granite County, Montana?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Montana, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).