Wheatland County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Wheatland County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wheatland County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 91 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting.

That is 32% less time on the road than the Montana average of 16.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 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 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,131 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	10.9 min	21.9 min	91 hrs/yr	$2,827	133
Montana	16.0 min	32.0 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,139	403
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 10.9 minutes to get to work in Wheatland County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of counties in Montana

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 21.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 64.1% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 21.7%
• Walked: 13.3% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Wheatland County, versus 0.1% in Montana.

Car commuting in Wheatland County is 21% lower than the Montana average (64.1% vs 81.6%).

Walked commuting is unusually common in Wheatland County: 3.4 times more than the Montana average (13.3% vs 4.0%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Wheatland County, versus 0.1% in Montana.

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

How does Wheatland County's commute time compare?

Metric	Wheatland County	Montana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.9 min	16.0 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	21.7%	11.6%	13.4%
Walked	13.3%	4.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.6%	3.5%

The average commute time in Wheatland County is 10.9 minutes, shorter than the 16.0 minutes in Montana.

0.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Montana. 13.3% commute by walking, higher than the 4.0% in Montana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau