Beadle County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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

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Commute Time Burden in Beadle County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beadle 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 92 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Beadle County holds about 2.1% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Beadle County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,145 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)
Beadle County	11.1 min	22.2 min	92 hrs/yr	$2,862	215
South Dakota	15.3 min	30.7 min	128 hrs/yr	$3,961	353
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: South Dakota Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in South Dakota

Jones County (6.7 min)
Bennett County (7.5 min)
Jackson County (7.8 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in South Dakota

Custer County (25.5 min)
McCook County (25.4 min)
Turner County (23.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Beadle County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.1 minutes to get to work in Beadle County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 72% of counties in South Dakota

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 6.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beadle County

Public transit is unusually rare in Beadle County: 4.7 times less than the South Dakota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Beadle County: 20.7 times more than the South Dakota average (2.3% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beadle County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beadle 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation
2009	88.1%	6.8%	3.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%
2010	87.9%	5.6%	3.6%	0.2%	0.2%	1.0%	1.0%	0.5%
2011	88.3%	5.2%	3.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.8%
2012	88.6%	4.0%	3.5%	0.1%	0.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.4%
2013	89.1%	4.2%	3.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	0.9%	1.2%
2014	90.0%	3.7%	3.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%	1.1%	0.9%
2015	91.1%	2.9%	2.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%	1.0%	1.7%
2016	91.4%	3.1%	2.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.9%	1.5%
2017	91.4%	3.6%	2.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.8%	1.2%
2018	90.5%	3.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.8%	1.4%
2019	89.7%	4.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	1.5%	1.4%
2020	89.7%	4.6%	4.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2021	89.5%	4.8%	4.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	87.6%	4.6%	4.6%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	5.4%	3.7%	2.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2024	86.4%	6.2%	4.1%	2.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 91.4%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 86.4% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Taking a taxi gained the most ground in Beadle County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 2.3% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.8% to 6.2% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 1.7% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.1%.

Commute Start Times in Beadle County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beadle County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		9.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		2.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.8%

Beadle County South Dakota Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Beadle County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are more common than in South Dakota: 20.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in South Dakota: 48.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Beadle 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 Beadle 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 Beadle County next to South 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	Beadle County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beadle County were on the road by 7:39 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across South Dakota, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 5 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Beadle County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Beadle County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Beadle County's commute time compare?

Metric	Beadle County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.1 min	15.3 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	6.2%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	4.1%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beadle County is 11.1 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 4.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Beadle County, SD Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Beadle County, SD is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 19,309 residents against a local median of 3,140. Where Beadle County, SD breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 64% below the local median of 17.1% at 6.2%.

The counties themselves spread 8.8% on work from home, so Beadle County, SD sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Beadle County, SD has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Beadle County, SD	19,309	11.1 min #2/6	6.2% #6/6	7:39 AM #3/6
Sanborn County, SD	2,384	20.7 min	18.6%	7:31 AM
Jerauld County, SD	1,772	11.5 min	19.8%	7:42 AM
Spink County, SD	6,219	11.4 min	14.7%	7:45 AM
Clark County, SD	3,917	16.2 min	17.1%	7:16 AM
Hand County, SD	3,140	8.4 min	10.9%	7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Beadle County, South Dakota.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Beadle County, South Dakota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 92 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,862 at a typical national wage. That's 28% less than the typical South Dakota commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Beadle County, South Dakota?

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

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Beadle County, South Dakota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in South Dakota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in South Dakota?

Among counties in South Dakota, the shortest average commutes are in Jones County (6.7 min), Bennett County (7.5 min), Jackson County (7.8 min). The longest are in Custer County (25.5 min), McCook County (25.4 min), Turner County (23.1 min).