Hyde County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hyde County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hyde County spend about 16 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 7.1 minutes.

Hyde County holds about 0.1% of South Dakota's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hyde County would save about 27 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $849 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)
Hyde County	8.2 min	16.4 min	69 hrs/yr	$2,124	79
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 8.2 minutes to get to work in Hyde County. That's 63% shorter than the 22.4-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. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hyde County

• Car: 72.8%
• Worked at Home: 20.8%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Other: 2.0%
• Public Transportation: 1.5% unusually high
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually common in Hyde County: 3.0 times more than the South Dakota average (1.5% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Hyde County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hyde 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.7%	9.7%	6.6%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	76.6%	13.8%	7.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	76.6%	13.9%	6.6%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2012	72.2%	15.8%	9.4%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2013	73.4%	15.0%	7.0%	1.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	1.9%
2014	70.0%	15.3%	9.8%	1.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%	2.0%
2015	71.0%	14.7%	10.1%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	2.0%
2016	69.8%	16.2%	10.5%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.6%
2017	68.9%	14.0%	11.9%	2.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%
2018	70.0%	14.4%	13.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	77.6%	11.3%	9.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	81.6%	9.6%	7.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.8%	9.9%	7.1%	1.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	80.9%	10.2%	5.9%	1.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	76.5%	14.9%	4.9%	2.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.8%	20.8%	2.9%	2.0%	1.5%	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 bottomed out in 2017 at 68.9%. Overall it fell from 81.7% in 2009 to 72.8% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hyde County: its share of workers rose from 9.7% in 2009 to 20.8% in 2024, up 11.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.6% to 2.9% of workers (down 3.7 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 2.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Hyde County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hyde County?

The bars show when commuters in Hyde 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 Hyde County0.4% South Dakota4.1%	0.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hyde County2.4% South Dakota3.1%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hyde County3.6% South Dakota5.1%	3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hyde County12.0% South Dakota6.9%	12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hyde County4.7% South Dakota11.3%	4.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hyde County23.7% South Dakota16.2%	23.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hyde County30.6% South Dakota19.9%	30.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hyde County14.1% South Dakota10.2%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hyde County4.5% South Dakota3.7%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hyde County0.6% South Dakota4.3%	0.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hyde County0.0% South Dakota2.0%	0.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hyde County0.4% South Dakota1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hyde County0.4% South Dakota6.1%	0.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hyde County2.6% South Dakota5.8%	2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hyde County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 30.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are less common than in South Dakota: 6.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 73.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 24 commuters (4.1%) 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 Hyde 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 Hyde 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 Hyde 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hyde County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:54 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:53 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hyde County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 14 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:47 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Dakota, where the typical start moved 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hyde County now leave 5 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 Hyde County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Hyde County's commute time compare?

Metric	Hyde County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.2 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	20.8%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.9%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hyde County is 8.2 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 2.9% commute by walking, lower than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau