Douglas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Douglas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Douglas County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 4% more time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Douglas County holds about 0.3% of South Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Douglas County would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,648 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)
Douglas County	15.9 min	31.9 min	133 hrs/yr	$4,119	141
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 15.9 minutes to get to work in Douglas County. That's 29% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 72% of counties in South Dakota

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

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Walked . About 8.7% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 80.6%
• Walked: 9.1%
• Worked at Home: 8.7%
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Bicycle commuting is essentially absent in Douglas County, versus 0.3% in South Dakota.

How does Douglas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Douglas County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.9 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	9.1%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Douglas County is 15.9 minutes, longer than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as South Dakota. 9.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau