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Phillips County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Phillips County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Phillips 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 92 hours, about 3.8 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 5.0 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Phillips County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,145 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)
Phillips County 11.1 min 22.2 min 92 hrs/yr $2,862 187
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

Phillips County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.1 minutes to get to work in Phillips County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% 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 working from home. About 18.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Phillips County

  • Car: 73.1%
  • Worked at Home: 18.7%
  • Walked: 7.6%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Phillips County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Phillips 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 Public Transportation Motorcycle Taxi Bicycle
2009 83.7% 7.8% 7.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%
2010 83.2% 7.4% 8.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2011 82.8% 8.1% 6.9% 0.4% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2012 81.2% 10.7% 5.4% 1.2% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2013 82.9% 10.2% 4.8% 1.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 79.7% 11.6% 6.5% 1.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2015 77.0% 14.1% 6.2% 1.1% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2016 80.8% 9.1% 7.6% 1.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6%
2017 81.4% 9.4% 7.2% 0.0% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2018 76.2% 11.9% 9.4% 0.2% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 1.1%
2019 73.7% 15.1% 9.9% 0.1% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.4%
2020 68.5% 18.8% 10.2% 0.5% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 1.2%
2021 70.7% 19.1% 7.7% 0.9% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.9%
2022 72.9% 15.8% 9.5% 0.6% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.9%
2023 75.3% 17.1% 7.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 73.1% 18.7% 7.6% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 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 2020 at 68.5%. Overall it fell from 83.7% in 2009 to 73.1% in 2024, down 10.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Phillips County: its share of workers rose from 7.8% in 2009 to 18.7% in 2024, up 10.9 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 10.2% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 7.6%.

Commute Start Times in Phillips County

  • Hitting SnoozeThe 3rd-biggest shift to later mornings among Montana's 56 counties: the typical start is 15 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Phillips County?

The bars show when commuters in Phillips 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
0.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
1.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
22.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
17.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
7.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
1.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Phillips County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 22.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.2% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 5.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 63.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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 Phillips County Montana United States
2009 7:32 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:34 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:38 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:35 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:35 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:38 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:38 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:38 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:31 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:31 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:31 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:31 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:31 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:37 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:42 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:47 AM 7:43 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Phillips County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across Montana, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Phillips County now leave 9 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 Phillips County has moved 17 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Phillips County in the whole series.

How does Phillips County's commute time compare?

Metric Phillips 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 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 18.7% 12.5% 15.0%
Walked 7.6% 3.9% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.2% 0.6% 3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 7.6% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Phillips County, MT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Phillips County, MT is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,221 residents against a local median of 6,948. The measure that sets Phillips County, MT apart most is one-way commute: 11.1 min, 24% above the local median of 8.9 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 2.5 min on one-way commute, so Phillips County, MT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Phillips County, MT has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Phillips County, MT 4,221 11.1 min #5/6 18.7% #2/6 7:47 AM #6/6
Blaine County, MT 6,948 11.1 min 16.6% 7:39 AM
Petroleum County, MT 447 8.6 min 15.3% 7:07 AM
Valley County, MT 7,519 8.7 min 15.9% 7:43 AM
Garfield County, MT 1,094 8.9 min 43.7% 7:22 AM
Fergus County, MT 11,687 10.9 min 16.8% 7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Phillips County, Montana.

Is commuting expensive in Phillips County, Montana?

Commuters here spend an estimated 92 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,862 at a typical national wage. That's 31% less than the typical Montana commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Phillips County, Montana?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Phillips County, Montana. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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

About 18.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Phillips County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,145 at the same national wage assumption used above.

How do commute times compare across 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).