Teton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Teton 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 Teton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Teton County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 135 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Teton County holds about 0.6% of Montana's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Teton County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,671 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)
Teton County	16.2 min	32.3 min	135 hrs/yr	$4,177	123
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

Teton County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.2 minutes to get to work in Teton County. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 71% 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 working from home. About 15.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Teton County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Teton County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Teton 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	76.2%	14.0%	8.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	75.1%	14.4%	9.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	74.9%	15.3%	8.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	75.9%	14.4%	8.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	77.8%	12.0%	7.2%	0.5%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	80.3%	9.6%	7.6%	0.4%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	81.9%	7.7%	7.6%	0.3%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	80.5%	7.7%	8.7%	0.3%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	79.6%	7.6%	8.2%	0.9%	2.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	79.3%	9.8%	8.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	79.1%	10.1%	8.9%	0.6%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	76.3%	13.6%	7.7%	1.0%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	78.0%	13.6%	6.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	76.2%	15.0%	6.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	76.3%	13.3%	8.2%	0.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.0%	15.1%	7.1%	1.5%	0.8%	0.7%	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 2015 at 81.9% and lowest in 2011 at 74.9%. Overall it fell from 76.2% in 2009 to 75.0% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Teton County: its share of workers rose from 14.0% in 2009 to 15.1% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.7% to 7.1% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Teton County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Teton County?

The bars show when commuters in Teton 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		3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		19.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		21.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Teton County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 21.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across Montana. Early starts are less common than in Montana: 7.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 67.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.1%) 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 Teton 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 Teton 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 Teton 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	Teton County	Montana	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Teton County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 4 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 Teton County now leave 5 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Teton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Teton County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.2 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	15.1%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	7.1%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Teton County is about the same as in Montana.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Montana. 7.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Teton County, MT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Teton County, MT is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 6,353 residents against a local median of 13,635. Teton County, MT's work from home, at 15.1%, runs 42% above the 10.6% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 16.2 min against a local median of 12.3 min, 32% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 32% above the local median it puts Teton County, MT at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.0% on work from home, so Teton County, MT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Teton County, MT has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Teton County, MT	6,353	16.2 min #5/6	15.1% #1/6	7:43 AM #3/6
Pondera County, MT	6,035	12.0 min	9.6%	7:40 AM
Lewis and Clark County, MT	73,430	16.2 min	14.5%	7:46 AM
Toole County, MT	5,058	10.8 min	10.6%	7:58 AM
Cascade County, MT	84,603	13.9 min	7.4%	7:35 AM
Glacier County, MT	13,635	12.3 min	12.5%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Teton County, Montana.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 135 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,177 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Montana commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Teton 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.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among 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).