Sargent County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sargent County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sargent County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 105 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the North Dakota average of 13.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Sargent County holds about 0.5% 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 Sargent County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,301 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)
Sargent County	12.6 min	25.2 min	105 hrs/yr	$3,254	186
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

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On average, it takes 12.6 minutes to get to work in Sargent County. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sargent County

• Car: 85.6%
• Walked: 7.7%
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Sargent County: 2447242535.7 times less than the North Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Sargent County, versus 0.3% in North Dakota.

Commute Mode Trends in Sargent County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sargent 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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• Other
• Public Transportation
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	79.9%	10.0%	8.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	1.1%
2010	80.8%	8.4%	8.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.8%
2011	81.1%	9.6%	7.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	82.1%	8.4%	7.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	1.0%
2013	82.6%	7.1%	7.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	1.2%
2014	83.1%	6.5%	7.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2015	80.7%	7.7%	9.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%
2016	82.5%	6.9%	8.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2017	82.0%	7.9%	8.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2018	82.2%	8.0%	8.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%
2019	82.2%	9.6%	6.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	82.6%	8.9%	7.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2021	84.3%	7.5%	7.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	84.3%	8.0%	6.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2023	84.3%	9.0%	6.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	85.6%	7.7%	5.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share rose from 79.9% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 10.0% to 7.7% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sargent County

• 😴 Sleeping InThe 2nd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among North Dakota's 53 counties: 24.2% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sargent County?

The bars show when commuters in Sargent 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 Sargent County2.1% North Dakota3.6%	2.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sargent County3.7% North Dakota2.7%	3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sargent County4.5% North Dakota4.4%	4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sargent County11.9% North Dakota6.7%	11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sargent County14.9% North Dakota11.2%	14.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sargent County14.4% North Dakota14.8%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sargent County13.7% North Dakota20.9%	13.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sargent County7.7% North Dakota11.0%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sargent County2.7% North Dakota4.7%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sargent County2.7% North Dakota4.5%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sargent County1.7% North Dakota2.3%	1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sargent County1.5% North Dakota1.0%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sargent County12.4% North Dakota6.4%	12.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sargent County6.0% North Dakota5.9%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sargent County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.2% across North Dakota. Early starts are about as common as in North Dakota: 10.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.7% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in North Dakota: 50.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Sargent 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 Sargent 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 Sargent 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	Sargent County	North Dakota	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sargent County were on the road by 7:27 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across North Dakota, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Sargent County now leave 11 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 Sargent County has moved 8 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Sargent County in the whole series.

How does Sargent County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sargent County	North Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.6 min	13.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	5.8%	8.1%	15.0%
Walked	7.7%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.3%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sargent County is 12.6 minutes, shorter than the 13.8 minutes in North Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.3% in North Dakota. 7.7% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in North Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau