McCone County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in McCone County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in McCone County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 108 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

McCone 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 McCone County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,344 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)
McCone County	13.0 min	26.0 min	108 hrs/yr	$3,360	106
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 13.0 minutes to get to work in McCone County. That's 42% 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 16.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in McCone County

• Car: 70.7%
• Worked at Home: 16.3%
• Walked: 11.9% unusually high
• Other: 1.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in McCone County: 11962.2 times less than the Montana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in McCone County: 3.1 times more than the Montana average (11.9% vs 3.9%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in McCone County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in McCone 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	62.9%	22.3%	13.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2010	65.1%	24.2%	10.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	73.4%	18.8%	7.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	75.9%	17.0%	6.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	75.8%	17.8%	5.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	80.7%	14.1%	4.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	80.0%	13.5%	6.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	76.4%	16.3%	6.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	71.6%	20.3%	8.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	72.3%	19.3%	8.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	68.2%	19.7%	11.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2020	74.1%	15.3%	9.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2021	67.9%	20.5%	10.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2022	69.5%	16.6%	12.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2023	67.0%	15.7%	15.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2024	70.7%	16.3%	11.9%	1.1%	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 peaked in 2014 at 80.7%. Overall it rose from 62.9% in 2009 to 70.7% in 2024, up 7.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 22.3% to 16.3% of workers (down 6.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 15.7% in 2023 and has since fallen back to 11.9%.

Commute Start Times in McCone County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in McCone County?

The bars show when commuters in McCone 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 McCone County4.0% Montana4.0%	4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM McCone County2.0% Montana2.7%	2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM McCone County0.4% Montana4.0%	0.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM McCone County9.9% Montana6.7%	9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM McCone County10.7% Montana10.3%	10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM McCone County21.0% Montana13.7%	21.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM McCone County20.2% Montana19.2%	20.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM McCone County14.3% Montana11.7%	14.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM McCone County0.7% Montana5.7%	0.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM McCone County5.9% Montana6.3%	5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM McCone County1.0% Montana3.3%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM McCone County7.5% Montana1.5%	7.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM McCone County1.0% Montana5.7%	1.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM McCone County1.3% Montana5.2%	1.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in McCone County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.7% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 6.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 66.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.7%) 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 McCone 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 McCone 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 McCone 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	McCone County	Montana	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in McCone County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across Montana, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in McCone County now leave 5 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 McCone County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does McCone County's commute time compare?

Metric	McCone County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.0 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	16.3%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	11.9%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in McCone County is 13.0 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 11.9% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau