Hand County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hand County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hand County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 69 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting.

That is 46% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Hand County holds about 0.3% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hand County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $860 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)
Hand County	8.3 min	16.6 min	69 hrs/yr	$2,150	99
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 8.3 minutes to get to work in Hand County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest 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 Worked at Home . About 10.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 79.4%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 9.6% unusually high
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Hand County, versus 0.2% in South Dakota.

Walked commuting is unusually common in Hand County: 3.0 times more than the South Dakota average (9.6% vs 3.2%).

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

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

How does Hand County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hand County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.3 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	10.6%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	9.6%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Hand County is 8.3 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 9.6% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau