Brown County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Brown County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brown County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 24% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Brown County holds about 4.2% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 3.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brown County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,209 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)
Brown County	11.7 min	23.4 min	98 hrs/yr	$3,023	396
South Dakota	15.3 min	30.7 min	128 hrs/yr	$3,961	353
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 11.7 minutes to get to work in Brown County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 6.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.3%
• Worked at Home: 6.5%
• Walked: 3.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Other: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Brown County: 3.7 times less than the South Dakota average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

How does Brown County's commute time compare?

Metric	Brown County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.7 min	15.3 min	22.5 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	6.5%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	3.9%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Brown County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as South Dakota. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau