Gregory County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gregory County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gregory County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 96 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 3.9 minutes.

Gregory County holds about 0.4% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gregory County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,186 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)
Gregory County	11.5 min	22.9 min	96 hrs/yr	$2,964	233
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 11.5 minutes to get to work in Gregory County. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gregory County

• Car: 85.4%
• Worked at Home: 8.0%
• Walked: 4.8%
• Other: 1.6%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Gregory County, versus 0.5% in South Dakota.

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

Biking is unusually rare in Gregory County: 3.0 times less than the South Dakota average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Gregory County, 2009-2024

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	76.6%	16.0%	6.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	74.4%	16.5%	7.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	75.0%	17.0%	7.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	75.5%	15.8%	7.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	77.8%	14.1%	6.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	77.8%	12.7%	8.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	82.0%	9.8%	6.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	83.5%	8.3%	6.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	84.9%	7.8%	6.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.3%	5.6%	7.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.5%	5.0%	5.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	87.1%	6.2%	6.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.9%	7.2%	6.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	85.3%	7.8%	5.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.5%	7.2%	4.6%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.4%	8.0%	4.8%	1.6%	0.1%	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 2019 at 88.5% and lowest in 2010 at 74.4%. Overall it rose from 76.6% in 2009 to 85.4% in 2024, up 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 16.0% to 8.0% of workers (down 8.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 8.2% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 4.8%.

Commute Start Times in Gregory County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gregory County?

The bars show when commuters in Gregory 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 Gregory County3.1% South Dakota4.1%	3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gregory County2.6% South Dakota3.1%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gregory County3.1% South Dakota5.1%	3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gregory County7.2% South Dakota6.9%	7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gregory County10.5% South Dakota11.3%	10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gregory County15.3% South Dakota16.2%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gregory County29.2% South Dakota19.9%	29.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gregory County10.8% South Dakota10.2%	10.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gregory County2.3% South Dakota3.7%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gregory County5.8% South Dakota4.3%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gregory County0.8% South Dakota2.0%	0.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gregory County3.0% South Dakota1.4%	3.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gregory County4.1% South Dakota6.1%	4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gregory County2.3% South Dakota5.8%	2.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gregory County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 29.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are less common than in South Dakota: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 65.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.9%) 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 Gregory 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 Gregory 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 Gregory 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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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Gregory County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gregory County were on the road by 7:39 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:49 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Dakota, where the typical start moved 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Gregory County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Gregory County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gregory County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.5 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	8.0%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	4.8%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gregory County is 11.5 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau