Butte County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Butte County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Butte County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting.

That is 14% more time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Butte County holds about 1.2% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Butte County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,803 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)
Butte County	17.4 min	34.9 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,506	158
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

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On average, it takes 17.4 minutes to get to work in Butte County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 80% 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 .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 9.0% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 81.4%
• Worked at Home: 9.0%
• Walked: 8.3%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Butte County, versus 0.2% in South Dakota.

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Butte County, versus 0.1% in South Dakota.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Butte County: 3.3 times less than the South Dakota average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

How does Butte County's commute time compare?

Metric	Butte County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.4 min	15.3 min	22.5 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	9.0%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	8.3%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Butte County is 17.4 minutes, longer than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 8.3% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau