Rosebud County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Rosebud County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rosebud County spend about 16 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 68 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.8 minutes.

Rosebud County holds about 0.7% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rosebud County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $849 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)
Rosebud County	8.2 min	16.4 min	68 hrs/yr	$2,123	49
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 8.2 minutes to get to work in Rosebud County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Montana

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rosebud County

• Car: 85.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Walked: 6.2%
• Other: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Rosebud County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rosebud 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	81.7%	8.7%	5.9%	0.6%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	79.8%	10.4%	6.1%	1.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	80.3%	10.0%	6.7%	0.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	81.2%	9.3%	7.1%	0.7%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	81.2%	10.1%	5.8%	0.5%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	81.2%	8.5%	6.6%	0.9%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	82.1%	7.2%	6.9%	0.5%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2016	81.7%	7.4%	6.3%	1.0%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2017	81.0%	6.9%	7.5%	1.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	81.4%	6.0%	9.5%	0.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2019	84.1%	5.4%	8.3%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	85.6%	5.5%	6.8%	0.6%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.0%	4.7%	5.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.3%	4.7%	5.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	6.0%	5.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.3%	7.0%	6.2%	0.9%	0.7%	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 2022 at 89.3% and lowest in 2010 at 79.8%. Overall it rose from 81.7% in 2009 to 85.3% in 2024, up 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 8.7% to 7.0% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 9.5% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 6.2%.

Commute Start Times in Rosebud County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rosebud County?

The bars show when commuters in Rosebud 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 Rosebud County6.9% Montana4.0%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Rosebud County4.0% Montana2.7%	4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Rosebud County4.9% Montana4.0%	4.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Rosebud County8.4% Montana6.7%	8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Rosebud County9.0% Montana10.3%	9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Rosebud County16.4% Montana13.7%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Rosebud County24.9% Montana19.2%	24.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Rosebud County6.4% Montana11.7%	6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Rosebud County2.2% Montana5.7%	2.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Rosebud County5.3% Montana6.3%	5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Rosebud County1.0% Montana3.3%	1.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Rosebud County0.8% Montana1.5%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Rosebud County5.6% Montana5.7%	5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Rosebud County4.1% Montana5.2%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rosebud County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 24.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.2% across Montana. Early starts are more common than in Montana: 15.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Montana's: 56.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.9%) 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 Rosebud 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 Rosebud 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 Rosebud 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	Rosebud County	Montana	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:30 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rosebud County were on the road by 7:30 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Montana, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Rosebud County now leave 7 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 Rosebud County has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Rosebud County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rosebud County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.2 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.0%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	6.2%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rosebud County is 8.2 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in Montana. 6.2% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau