Clay County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Clay County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clay 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 91 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting.

That is 29% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Clay County holds about 1.6% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clay County would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,125 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)
Clay County	10.9 min	21.8 min	91 hrs/yr	$2,813	297
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 10.9 minutes to get to work in Clay County. That's 52% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 77% of counties in South Dakota

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Walked . About 7.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 78.9%
• Walked: 10.7% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.7%
• Bicycle: 1.9% unusually high
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walked commuting is unusually common in Clay County: 3.4 times more than the South Dakota average (10.7% vs 3.2%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Clay County: 6.7 times less than the South Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Clay County: 5.9 times more than the South Dakota average (1.9% vs 0.3%).

Clay County stands out for active commuting: 12.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.6 times the South Dakota average of 3.5%.

How does Clay County's commute time compare?

Metric	Clay County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.7%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	10.7%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Clay County is 10.9 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 10.7% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau