Pricing
Map Drive-Time Zone10-min drive time • PDF report

Dickey County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Help

Commuting in Dickey County, North Dakota: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

You 9/24/26, 7:59 PM
Is the commute in Dickey County longer than the national average?
Map AI 9/24/26, 7:59 PM

Commute Time Burden in Dickey County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dickey County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 71 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 38% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Dickey County holds about 0.6% of North Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dickey County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $886 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)
Dickey County 8.6 min 17.1 min 71 hrs/yr $2,215 140
North Dakota 13.8 min 27.6 min 115 hrs/yr $3,567 360
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: North Dakota Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in North Dakota
  1. McIntosh County (6.9 min)
  2. Foster County (7.7 min)
  3. Pierce County (7.7 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in North Dakota
  1. McHenry County (28.9 min)
  2. Renville County (23.5 min)
  3. Oliver County (22.8 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Dickey County
Click a county to open it Explore the map →
Average commute time

On average, it takes 8.6 minutes to get to work in Dickey County. That's 62% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 88% of counties in North Dakota

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dickey County

  • Car: 80.7%
  • Worked at Home: 10.5%
  • Walked: 6.9%
  • Other: 1.8%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Dickey County, versus 0.2% in North Dakota.

Public transit is essentially absent in Dickey County, versus 0.3% in North Dakota.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Dickey County, versus 0.1% in North Dakota.

Commute Mode Trends in Dickey County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dickey 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 Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 79.5% 9.8% 8.8% 0.3% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 82.5% 6.6% 8.4% 0.4% 1.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 82.3% 8.2% 7.6% 0.0% 1.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 81.0% 9.5% 8.1% 0.0% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 83.1% 7.9% 7.8% 0.0% 1.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 82.2% 7.7% 8.9% 0.0% 0.9% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 83.2% 6.4% 9.4% 0.0% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 81.5% 7.2% 10.7% 0.0% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 84.3% 6.2% 8.8% 0.2% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 81.2% 8.4% 8.7% 0.7% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 81.9% 8.7% 7.6% 0.9% 0.2% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 78.4% 12.3% 7.0% 1.7% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 84.5% 8.2% 5.5% 1.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 80.2% 8.8% 8.1% 2.0% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 82.5% 8.8% 6.4% 2.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 80.7% 10.5% 6.9% 1.8% 0.2% 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 2021 at 84.5% and lowest in 2020 at 78.4%. Overall it rose from 79.5% in 2009 to 80.7% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dickey County: its share of workers rose from 9.8% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.8% to 6.9% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 12.3% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 10.5%.

Commute Start Times in Dickey County

  • Night OwlThe 3rd-latest start among North Dakota's 53 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 7:51 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dickey County?

The bars show when commuters in Dickey 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 North Dakota for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
21.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
16.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.6%

Dickey County North Dakota Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Dickey County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 20.9% across North Dakota. Early starts are less common than in North Dakota: 7.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush looks much like North Dakota's: 57.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Dickey 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 Dickey 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 Dickey County next to North Dakota 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 Dickey County North Dakota United States
2009 7:46 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:47 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:40 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:42 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:45 AM 7:40 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:42 AM 7:39 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:40 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:45 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:40 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:48 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:46 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:50 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:48 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:52 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:49 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:51 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dickey County were on the road by 7:51 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). That goes against the trend across North Dakota, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Dickey County now leave 13 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 Dickey County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Dickey County's commute time compare?

Metric Dickey County North Dakota US Average
Avg. Commute Time 8.6 min 13.8 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 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 10.5% 8.1% 15.0%
Walked 6.9% 3.2% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.3% 3.2%

The average commute time in Dickey County is 8.6 minutes, shorter than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 6.9% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Dickey County, ND Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Dickey County, ND is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,935 residents against a local median of 4,118. Where Dickey County, ND breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 32% below the local median of 12.6 min at 8.6 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 4.4 min on one-way commute, so Dickey County, ND sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Dickey County, ND has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Dickey County, ND 4,935 8.6 min #1/6 10.5% #3/6 7:51 AM #6/6
LaMoure County, ND 4,118 13.0 min 11.9% 7:41 AM
Brown County, SD 37,877 11.7 min 6.3% 7:38 AM
McPherson County, SD 2,145 10.8 min 11.6% 7:40 AM
Sargent County, ND 3,804 12.6 min 5.8% 7:27 AM
Ransom County, ND 5,643 15.3 min 10.2% 7:45 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Dickey County, North Dakota.

Is living in Dickey County, North Dakota good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 71 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,215 at a typical national wage. That's 38% less than the typical North Dakota commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Dickey County, North Dakota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Dickey County, North Dakota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Dickey County, North Dakota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.3% in North Dakota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in North Dakota have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in North Dakota, the shortest average commutes are in McIntosh County (6.9 min), Foster County (7.7 min), Pierce County (7.7 min). The longest are in McHenry County (28.9 min), Renville County (23.5 min), Oliver County (22.8 min).