Sheridan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sheridan 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 Sheridan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sheridan County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 75 hours, about 3.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Sheridan County holds about 0.3% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sheridan County would save about 30 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $929 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)
Sheridan County	9.0 min	18.0 min	75 hrs/yr	$2,323	89
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

Treasure County (7.2 min)
Rosebud County (8.2 min)
Fallon County (8.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Montana

Broadwater County (30.3 min)
Stillwater County (27.8 min)
Granite County (23.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Sheridan County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 9.0 minutes to get to work in Sheridan County. That's 60% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% of counties in Montana

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 5.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sheridan County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Sheridan County: 4.6 times more than the Montana average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually common in Sheridan County: 6.0 times more than the Montana average (3.8% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sheridan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sheridan 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	80.3%	11.9%	6.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2010	83.8%	10.1%	5.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	83.3%	10.4%	5.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	85.0%	9.4%	4.9%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	87.8%	7.1%	4.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.1%	7.2%	5.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.2%	7.4%	6.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	83.0%	7.5%	8.5%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	82.5%	7.6%	8.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2018	81.2%	8.2%	9.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	82.2%	6.2%	9.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2020	83.7%	7.2%	7.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2021	85.8%	7.1%	4.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%
2022	82.6%	8.6%	4.9%	0.5%	2.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2023	83.2%	8.8%	4.0%	0.7%	2.2%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2024	79.1%	9.0%	5.2%	3.8%	2.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 87.8%. Overall it fell from 80.3% in 2009 to 79.1% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Sheridan County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 3.8% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 11.9% to 9.0% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 9.3% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 5.2%.

Commute Start Times in Sheridan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sheridan County?

The bars show when commuters in Sheridan 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		20.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sheridan County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 20.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across Montana. Early starts are about as common as in Montana: 11.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 58.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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	Sheridan County	Montana	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sheridan County were on the road by 7:52 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across Montana, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sheridan County now leave 14 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 Sheridan County has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Sheridan County in the whole series.

How does Sheridan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sheridan County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	9.0 min	16.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	5.2%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	9.0%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.8%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sheridan County is 9.0 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

3.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Montana. 9.0% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sheridan County, MT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sheridan County, MT is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,668 residents against a local median of 10,526. The measure that sets Sheridan County, MT apart most is one-way commute: 9.0 min, 33% below the local median of 13.5 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 8.5 min on one-way commute, so Sheridan County, MT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sheridan County, MT has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sheridan County, MT	3,668	9.0 min #2/6	5.2% #3/6	7:52 AM #5/6
Roosevelt County, MT	10,526	13.5 min	3.9%	7:45 AM
Richland County, MT	11,232	16.6 min	5.4%	7:26 AM
Divide County, ND	2,167	8.1 min	4.7%	8:00 AM
Daniels County, MT	1,494	10.4 min	7.6%	7:46 AM
Williams County, ND	39,554	13.9 min	4.0%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sheridan County, Montana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 75 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,323 at a typical national wage. That's 44% less than the typical Montana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Sheridan 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 Sheridan County, Montana?

Public transit usage is notably higher here than typical: about 3.8% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in Montana, making it a realistic option for many 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).