LaMoure County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in LaMoure County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in LaMoure County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 108 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

LaMoure County holds about 0.5% of North Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in LaMoure County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,339 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)
LaMoure County	13.0 min	25.9 min	108 hrs/yr	$3,348	114
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.

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On average, it takes 13.0 minutes to get to work in LaMoure County. That's 42% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in LaMoure County

• Car: 82.9%
• Worked at Home: 11.9%
• Walked: 4.4%
• Other: 0.7%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in LaMoure County: 3.8 times less than the North Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in LaMoure County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in LaMoure 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	76.4%	11.9%	10.4%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	74.8%	12.8%	10.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	76.5%	13.4%	7.9%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	75.7%	12.6%	10.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	76.8%	12.2%	9.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	76.4%	12.1%	9.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	76.1%	12.3%	10.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	76.8%	12.4%	9.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	76.5%	13.0%	9.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	74.8%	14.1%	10.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	76.1%	12.8%	9.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	77.8%	13.0%	8.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	79.9%	12.8%	6.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	79.4%	13.3%	6.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	82.3%	11.5%	5.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.9%	11.9%	4.4%	0.7%	0.1%	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 2010 at 74.8%. Overall it rose from 76.4% in 2009 to 82.9% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 10.4% to 4.4% of workers (down 6.0 percentage points).

Working from home peaked at 14.1% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 11.9%.

Commute Start Times in LaMoure County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in LaMoure County?

The bars show when commuters in LaMoure 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	12:00-4:59 AM LaMoure County5.7% North Dakota3.6%	5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM LaMoure County2.5% North Dakota2.7%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM LaMoure County2.8% North Dakota4.4%	2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM LaMoure County4.1% North Dakota6.7%	4.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM LaMoure County7.8% North Dakota11.2%	7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM LaMoure County16.2% North Dakota14.8%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM LaMoure County29.4% North Dakota20.9%	29.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM LaMoure County15.3% North Dakota11.0%	15.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM LaMoure County3.3% North Dakota4.7%	3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM LaMoure County3.9% North Dakota4.5%	3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM LaMoure County1.3% North Dakota2.3%	1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM LaMoure County0.7% North Dakota1.0%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM LaMoure County4.8% North Dakota6.4%	4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM LaMoure County2.5% North Dakota5.9%	2.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in LaMoure County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 29.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 20.9% across North Dakota. Early starts are about as common as in North Dakota: 10.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in North Dakota: 68.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.0%) 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 LaMoure 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 LaMoure 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 LaMoure 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	LaMoure County	North Dakota	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 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	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in LaMoure County were on the road by 7:41 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across North Dakota, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in LaMoure County now leave 3 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does LaMoure County's commute time compare?

Metric	LaMoure County	North Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.0 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.9%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	4.4%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in LaMoure County is 13.0 minutes, shorter than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau