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Commuting in Deuel County, South Dakota: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Deuel County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Deuel County spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 39% more time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.9 minutes.

Deuel County holds about 0.5% 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 Deuel County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,195 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)
Deuel County 21.2 min 42.5 min 177 hrs/yr $5,486 296
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

Fastest commutes among counties in South Dakota
  1. Jones County (6.7 min)
  2. Bennett County (7.5 min)
  3. Jackson County (7.8 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in South Dakota
  1. Custer County (25.5 min)
  2. McCook County (25.4 min)
  3. Turner County (23.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Deuel County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Deuel County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in South Dakota

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

  • Car: 84.2%
  • Worked at Home: 9.5%
  • Walked: 4.4%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Bicycle: 0.8%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Deuel County: 530723717.2 times less than the South Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Deuel County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Deuel 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 85.3% 9.7% 4.1% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 83.1% 10.7% 4.7% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2011 83.0% 11.7% 4.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2012 84.6% 10.7% 3.1% 0.7% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8%
2013 86.5% 9.7% 3.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2014 85.3% 11.4% 2.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2015 85.5% 12.2% 1.7% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 87.4% 10.6% 1.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2017 88.0% 9.8% 1.7% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 86.9% 10.1% 2.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 89.3% 7.8% 2.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 90.6% 6.6% 2.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 89.9% 6.2% 2.5% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 89.3% 6.4% 2.4% 1.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 86.5% 9.1% 2.6% 1.3% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.2% 9.5% 4.4% 1.1% 0.8% 0.0% 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 2020 at 90.6% and lowest in 2011 at 83.0%. Overall it fell from 85.3% in 2009 to 84.2% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Biking gained the most ground in Deuel County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.8% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 0.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 12.2% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 9.5%.

Commute Start Times in Deuel County

  • Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among South Dakota's 66 counties: 24.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Deuel County?

The bars show when commuters in Deuel 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
10.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
16.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
2.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Deuel County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are more common than in South Dakota: 24.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in South Dakota: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.4%) 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 Deuel 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 Deuel 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 Deuel 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Deuel County South Dakota United States
2009 7:26 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:28 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:23 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:21 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:24 AM 7:39 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:28 AM 7:39 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:27 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:30 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:20 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:22 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:18 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:17 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:18 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:16 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Deuel County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:26 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Dakota, where the typical start moved 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Deuel County now leave 22 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Deuel County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Deuel County in the whole series.

How does Deuel County's commute time compare?

Metric Deuel County South Dakota US Average
Avg. Commute Time 21.2 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 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 9.5% 9.7% 15.0%
Walked 4.4% 3.1% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Deuel County is 21.2 minutes, longer than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Deuel County, SD Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Deuel County, SD is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,328 residents against a local median of 6,682. The measure that sets Deuel County, SD apart most is one-way commute: 21.2 min, 60% above the local median of 13.2 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 9.7 min on one-way commute, so Deuel County, SD sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Deuel County, SD has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Deuel County, SD 4,328 21.2 min #6/6 9.5% #5/6 7:15 AM #1/6
Brookings County, SD 35,353 11.9 min 11.1% 7:44 AM
Grant County, SD 7,563 10.8 min 11.0% 7:35 AM
Hamlin County, SD 6,373 18.4 min 7.0% 7:17 AM
Lincoln County, MN 5,603 20.5 min 16.4% 7:25 AM
Lac qui Parle County, MN 6,682 13.2 min 13.5% 7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Deuel County, South Dakota.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Deuel County, South Dakota?

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,486 at a typical national wage. That's 39% more than the typical South Dakota commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Deuel County, South Dakota?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Deuel County, South Dakota. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Deuel County, South Dakota?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in South Dakota, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in South Dakota?

Among counties in South Dakota, the shortest average commutes are in Jones County (6.7 min), Bennett County (7.5 min), Jackson County (7.8 min). The longest are in Custer County (25.5 min), McCook County (25.4 min), Turner County (23.1 min).