Bon Homme County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bon Homme County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bon Homme County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Bon Homme County holds about 0.8% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bon Homme County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,780 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)
Bon Homme County	17.2 min	34.4 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,449	290
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.

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On average, it takes 17.2 minutes to get to work in Bon Homme County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in South Dakota

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bon Homme County

• Car: 87.0%
• Worked at Home: 7.4%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Other: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bon Homme County, versus 0.2% in South Dakota.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Bon Homme County, versus 0.1% in South Dakota.

Commute Mode Trends in Bon Homme County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bon Homme 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	78.3%	13.8%	5.7%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	74.1%	18.0%	5.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	74.4%	17.5%	5.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	77.2%	15.1%	5.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	76.8%	15.2%	6.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	75.3%	16.4%	7.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	79.5%	13.6%	5.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	81.0%	12.1%	5.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	82.6%	11.2%	5.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.5%	11.8%	3.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	82.9%	12.0%	2.8%	0.9%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	83.9%	10.3%	2.7%	1.4%	0.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.2%	8.0%	3.4%	0.9%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.3%	7.5%	3.0%	1.3%	0.3%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.0%	7.6%	2.7%	1.8%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.0%	7.4%	3.4%	1.8%	0.3%	0.1%	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 74.1%. Overall it rose from 78.3% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, up 8.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 13.8% to 7.4% of workers (down 6.4 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 7.2% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 3.4%.

Commute Start Times in Bon Homme County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bon Homme County?

The bars show when commuters in Bon Homme 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	12:00-4:59 AM Bon Homme County4.6% South Dakota4.1%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bon Homme County7.9% South Dakota3.1%	7.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bon Homme County6.0% South Dakota5.1%	6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bon Homme County5.3% South Dakota6.9%	5.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bon Homme County10.1% South Dakota11.3%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bon Homme County19.9% South Dakota16.2%	19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bon Homme County17.6% South Dakota19.9%	17.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bon Homme County13.2% South Dakota10.2%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bon Homme County2.1% South Dakota3.7%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bon Homme County2.5% South Dakota4.3%	2.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bon Homme County0.8% South Dakota2.0%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bon Homme County0.7% South Dakota1.4%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bon Homme County4.6% South Dakota6.1%	4.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bon Homme County4.7% South Dakota5.8%	4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bon Homme County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.2% across South Dakota. Early starts are more common than in South Dakota: 18.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 60.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (13.4%) 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 Bon Homme 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 Bon Homme 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 Bon Homme 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bon Homme County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:40 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bon Homme County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Dakota, where the typical start moved 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bon Homme County now leave 14 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 Bon Homme County has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Bon Homme County's commute time compare?

Metric	Bon Homme County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.2 min	15.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.4%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	3.4%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bon Homme County is 17.2 minutes, longer than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 3.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau