Roosevelt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Roosevelt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roosevelt County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 113 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Roosevelt County holds about 0.9% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roosevelt County would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,397 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)
Roosevelt County	13.5 min	27.0 min	113 hrs/yr	$3,492	78
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 13.5 minutes to get to work in Roosevelt County. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 3.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roosevelt County

• Car: 86.5%
• Walked: 8.3%
• Worked at Home: 3.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Roosevelt County: 3.0 times less than the Montana average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Roosevelt County: 3.2 times less than the Montana average (3.9% vs 12.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Roosevelt County: 6.1 times less than the Montana average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Roosevelt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roosevelt 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	86.4%	6.5%	6.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.2%	6.8%	5.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.5%	6.1%	4.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.3%	4.8%	4.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	89.2%	4.3%	5.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.6%	4.0%	4.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	89.2%	3.7%	4.7%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	88.8%	5.4%	4.0%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	85.8%	8.2%	4.6%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	84.8%	8.7%	4.2%	0.1%	2.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	84.1%	10.2%	3.9%	0.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.7%	10.0%	3.9%	0.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	85.1%	8.4%	5.0%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.0%	7.3%	4.7%	0.2%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.5%	7.6%	3.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	8.3%	3.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 89.6% and lowest in 2019 at 84.1%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 86.4% in 2009 and 86.5% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Roosevelt County: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 1.8 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.3% to 3.9% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Roosevelt County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roosevelt County?

The bars show when commuters in Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County5.1% Montana4.0%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Roosevelt County1.8% Montana2.7%	1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Roosevelt County1.7% Montana4.0%	1.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Roosevelt County8.3% Montana6.7%	8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Roosevelt County7.2% Montana10.3%	7.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Roosevelt County13.0% Montana13.7%	13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Roosevelt County26.3% Montana19.2%	26.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Roosevelt County15.3% Montana11.7%	15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Roosevelt County5.6% Montana5.7%	5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Roosevelt County4.9% Montana6.3%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Roosevelt County2.1% Montana3.3%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Roosevelt County0.2% Montana1.5%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Roosevelt County6.2% Montana5.7%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Roosevelt County2.2% Montana5.2%	2.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roosevelt County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 26.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.2% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 61.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.6%) 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 Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt 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	Roosevelt County	Montana	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roosevelt County were on the road by 7:45 AM, 4 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 Roosevelt County now leave 7 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 Roosevelt County has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Roosevelt County in the whole series.

How does Roosevelt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Roosevelt County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.5 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	3.9%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	8.3%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roosevelt County is 13.5 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 8.3% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau