Charles Mix County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Charles Mix County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Charles Mix 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 93 hours, about 3.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Charles Mix County holds about 1.0% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Charles Mix County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,156 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)
Charles Mix County	11.2 min	22.4 min	93 hrs/yr	$2,889	159
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 11.2 minutes to get to work in Charles Mix County. That's 50% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Charles Mix County

• Car: 82.8%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Walked: 4.8%
• Other: 1.9%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Charles Mix County, versus 0.2% in South Dakota.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Charles Mix County, versus 0.1% in South Dakota.

Commute Mode Trends in Charles Mix County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Charles Mix 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	80.0%	9.8%	7.0%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	79.7%	11.2%	6.7%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	78.9%	12.4%	5.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	80.4%	12.2%	4.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2013	81.4%	11.6%	4.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	83.4%	10.2%	4.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	84.5%	9.4%	3.9%	1.2%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	85.9%	7.4%	3.6%	2.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	85.2%	7.8%	4.1%	2.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.7%	7.1%	3.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	85.1%	8.3%	3.5%	1.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	83.1%	10.0%	4.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.6%	10.6%	4.9%	0.5%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.1%	12.3%	3.9%	0.4%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.2%	12.3%	4.0%	1.5%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.8%	9.5%	4.8%	1.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2018 at 86.7% and lowest in 2011 at 78.9%. Overall it rose from 80.0% in 2009 to 82.8% in 2024, up 2.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.0% to 4.8% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2017 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 12.4% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 9.5%.

Commute Start Times in Charles Mix County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Charles Mix County?

The bars show when commuters in Charles Mix 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 Charles Mix County2.5% South Dakota4.1%	2.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Charles Mix County2.7% South Dakota3.1%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Charles Mix County1.9% South Dakota5.1%	1.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Charles Mix County3.7% South Dakota6.9%	3.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Charles Mix County9.7% South Dakota11.3%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Charles Mix County11.1% South Dakota16.2%	11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Charles Mix County29.5% South Dakota19.9%	29.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Charles Mix County16.7% South Dakota10.2%	16.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Charles Mix County5.0% South Dakota3.7%	5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Charles Mix County6.5% South Dakota4.3%	6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Charles Mix County1.8% South Dakota2.0%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Charles Mix County1.6% South Dakota1.4%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Charles Mix County5.5% South Dakota6.1%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Charles Mix County1.9% South Dakota5.8%	1.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Charles Mix County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 29.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are less common than in South Dakota: 7.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 67.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Charles Mix 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 Charles Mix 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 Charles Mix 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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• South Dakota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Charles Mix County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:50 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:52 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:52 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Charles Mix County were on the road by 7:49 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 Charles Mix County now leave 11 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Charles Mix County's commute time compare?

Metric	Charles Mix County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.5%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Charles Mix County is 11.2 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau