Codington County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Codington County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Codington County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 99 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Codington County holds about 3.2% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 2.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Codington County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,223 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)
Codington County	11.8 min	23.7 min	99 hrs/yr	$3,057	629
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.

Commute Time Map: South Dakota Counties

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On average, it takes 11.8 minutes to get to work in Codington County. That's 47% 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 5.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Codington County

• Car: 92.1%
• Worked at Home: 5.6%
• Walked: 1.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Other: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Commute Mode Trends in Codington County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Codington 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
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	90.9%	5.7%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	91.8%	5.1%	2.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	91.2%	4.8%	2.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	4.0%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	3.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	4.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	92.2%	4.8%	1.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	93.0%	4.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	5.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	91.7%	5.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.6%	5.7%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.9%	5.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	92.0%	5.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	92.4%	5.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	91.0%	6.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2024	92.1%	5.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 93.2%. Overall it rose from 90.9% in 2009 to 92.1% in 2024, up 1.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Codington County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Codington County?

The bars show when commuters in Codington 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 Codington County6.8% South Dakota4.1%	6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Codington County4.3% South Dakota3.1%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Codington County10.2% South Dakota5.1%	10.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Codington County5.2% South Dakota6.9%	5.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Codington County8.4% South Dakota11.3%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Codington County9.7% South Dakota16.2%	9.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Codington County21.2% South Dakota19.9%	21.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Codington County10.3% South Dakota10.2%	10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Codington County4.0% South Dakota3.7%	4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Codington County4.6% South Dakota4.3%	4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Codington County2.5% South Dakota2.0%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Codington County0.2% South Dakota1.4%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Codington County6.1% South Dakota6.1%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Codington County6.5% South Dakota5.8%	6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Codington County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 21.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are more common than in South Dakota: 21.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in South Dakota: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Codington 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 Codington 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 Codington 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.

• Codington County
• South Dakota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Codington County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:42 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	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Codington County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). South Dakota followed the same path, with the typical start moving 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Codington County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Codington County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Codington County's commute time compare?

Metric	Codington County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.8 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	5.6%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Codington County is 11.8 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as South Dakota. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau