Wheatland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wheatland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wheatland County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 99 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Wheatland County holds about 0.2% of Montana's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wheatland County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,224 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)
Wheatland County	11.8 min	23.7 min	99 hrs/yr	$3,060	133
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 11.8 minutes to get to work in Wheatland County. That's 47% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 71% of counties in Montana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wheatland County

• Car: 63.3% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 23.3%
• Walked: 10.1%
• Public Transportation: 2.8% unusually high
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 22% less common in Wheatland County than the Montana average (63.3% vs 80.8%).

Public transit is unusually common in Wheatland County: 4.4 times more than the Montana average (2.8% vs 0.6%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Wheatland County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wheatland 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	73.2%	15.5%	7.9%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	64.4%	21.1%	9.4%	4.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	67.1%	17.3%	11.3%	2.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	67.3%	16.6%	12.3%	1.8%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	67.5%	15.0%	15.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	67.2%	16.2%	16.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	61.7%	14.8%	23.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	54.3%	13.6%	31.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	52.8%	13.4%	32.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	54.4%	13.6%	30.0%	1.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	52.8%	11.9%	32.6%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	52.0%	18.8%	27.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	59.8%	22.0%	17.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	60.4%	22.6%	16.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	64.1%	21.7%	13.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	63.3%	23.3%	10.1%	2.8%	0.5%	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 bottomed out in 2020 at 52.0%. Overall it fell from 73.2% in 2009 to 63.3% in 2024, down 9.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wheatland County: its share of workers rose from 15.5% in 2009 to 23.3% in 2024, up 7.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 32.6% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 10.1%.

Commute Start Times in Wheatland County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wheatland County?

The bars show when commuters in Wheatland 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 Wheatland County4.4% Montana4.0%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Wheatland County0.2% Montana2.7%	0.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Wheatland County6.3% Montana4.0%	6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Wheatland County10.1% Montana6.7%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Wheatland County11.4% Montana10.3%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Wheatland County23.6% Montana13.7%	23.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Wheatland County17.3% Montana19.2%	17.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Wheatland County13.9% Montana11.7%	13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Wheatland County1.4% Montana5.7%	1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Wheatland County5.7% Montana6.3%	5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Wheatland County0.8% Montana3.3%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Wheatland County0.3% Montana1.5%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Wheatland County0.8% Montana5.7%	0.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Wheatland County3.6% Montana5.2%	3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wheatland County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 23.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.7% across Montana. Early starts are about as common as in Montana: 10.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Montana: 66.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 55.0% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (11.3%) 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 Wheatland 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 Wheatland 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 Wheatland 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	Wheatland County	Montana	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:20 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:20 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wheatland County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Montana, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Wheatland County now leave 16 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 Wheatland County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Wheatland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wheatland County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.8 min	16.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	23.3%	12.5%	15.0%
Walked	10.1%	3.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.8%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wheatland County is 11.8 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

2.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Montana. 10.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.9% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau