Faulk County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Faulk County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Faulk County spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 87 hours, about 3.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Faulk County holds about 0.2% of South Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Faulk County would save about 35 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,082 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)
Faulk County	10.5 min	20.9 min	87 hrs/yr	$2,706	141
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 10.5 minutes to get to work in Faulk County. That's 53% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 80% of counties in South Dakota

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Faulk County

• Car: 76.2%
• Worked at Home: 12.5%
• Walked: 10.4% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Faulk County: 3.4 times more than the South Dakota average (10.4% vs 3.1%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Faulk County, versus 0.3% in South Dakota.

Faulk County stands out for active commuting: 10.4% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.1 times the South Dakota average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Faulk County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Faulk 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
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	69.4%	17.6%	12.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	68.7%	17.1%	13.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	67.2%	18.6%	12.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	65.0%	20.0%	13.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	69.2%	20.6%	9.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	66.0%	21.3%	12.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	67.4%	21.5%	10.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	70.9%	15.9%	12.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	72.9%	12.6%	14.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	74.3%	10.7%	14.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	77.1%	11.6%	10.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	73.5%	15.2%	10.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	75.4%	16.2%	6.6%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	77.8%	15.9%	4.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	75.7%	12.4%	11.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.2%	12.5%	10.4%	0.6%	0.2%	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 2022 at 77.8% and lowest in 2012 at 65.0%. Overall it rose from 69.4% in 2009 to 76.2% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 17.6% to 12.5% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 14.5% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 10.4%.

Commute Start Times in Faulk County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Faulk County?

The bars show when commuters in Faulk 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 Faulk County2.6% South Dakota4.1%	2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Faulk County1.3% South Dakota3.1%	1.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Faulk County0.2% South Dakota5.1%	0.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Faulk County3.7% South Dakota6.9%	3.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Faulk County10.2% South Dakota11.3%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Faulk County22.4% South Dakota16.2%	22.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Faulk County21.2% South Dakota19.9%	21.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Faulk County15.9% South Dakota10.2%	15.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Faulk County3.1% South Dakota3.7%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Faulk County7.5% South Dakota4.3%	7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Faulk County4.1% South Dakota2.0%	4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Faulk County1.1% South Dakota1.4%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Faulk County3.6% South Dakota6.1%	3.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Faulk County3.0% South Dakota5.8%	3.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Faulk County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 22.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.2% across South Dakota. Early starts are less common than in South Dakota: 4.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 69.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Faulk 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 Faulk 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 Faulk 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	Faulk 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	7:40 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:50 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Faulk County were on the road by 7:43 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:48 AM). South Dakota followed the same path, with the typical start moving 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Faulk County now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Faulk County has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Faulk County's commute time compare?

Metric	Faulk County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.5 min	15.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.5%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	10.4%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Faulk County is 10.5 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 10.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau