Jones County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jones County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jones County spend about 13 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 56 hours, about 2.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 56% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 8.7 minutes.

Jones County holds about 0.1% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jones County would save about 22 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $690 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)
Jones County	6.7 min	13.4 min	56 hrs/yr	$1,725	137
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 6.7 minutes to get to work in Jones County. That's 70% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 12.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jones County

• Car: 69.6%
• Walked: 17.7% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 12.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is unusually common in Jones County: 5.7 times more than the South Dakota average (17.7% vs 3.1%).

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

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

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

Jones County stands out for active commuting: 17.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 5.2 times the South Dakota average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jones County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jones 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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Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	80.5%	3.9%	14.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	77.5%	3.7%	18.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	76.5%	6.9%	15.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	78.7%	5.4%	15.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	79.5%	4.1%	16.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	79.1%	10.6%	8.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2015	76.2%	11.4%	11.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2016	65.1%	21.4%	11.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%
2017	66.1%	20.4%	11.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2018	60.3%	25.7%	12.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%
2019	64.1%	21.7%	12.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2020	63.3%	21.9%	13.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%
2021	67.3%	15.2%	15.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2022	71.5%	11.9%	15.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2023	72.9%	14.1%	11.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2024	69.6%	17.7%	12.7%	0.0%	0.0%	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 2018 at 60.3%. Overall it fell from 80.5% in 2009 to 69.6% in 2024, down 10.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Jones County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 17.7% in 2024, up 13.8 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 14.7% to 12.7% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 25.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 17.7%.

Commute Start Times in Jones County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jones County?

The bars show when commuters in Jones 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 Jones County3.0% South Dakota4.1%	3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jones County0.0% South Dakota3.1%	0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jones County1.5% South Dakota5.1%	1.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jones County7.3% South Dakota6.9%	7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jones County13.8% South Dakota11.3%	13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jones County13.8% South Dakota16.2%	13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jones County21.8% South Dakota19.9%	21.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jones County23.3% South Dakota10.2%	23.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jones County0.8% South Dakota3.7%	0.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jones County6.8% South Dakota4.3%	6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jones County7.8% South Dakota2.0%	7.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jones County0.0% South Dakota1.4%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jones County0.3% South Dakota6.1%	0.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jones County0.0% South Dakota5.8%	0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jones County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 23.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across South Dakota. Early starts are less common than in South Dakota: 4.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 72.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.8%) 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 Jones 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 Jones 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 Jones 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	Jones County	South Dakota	United States
2009	8:00 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:00 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:51 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:04 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:02 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:05 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:18 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jones County were on the road by 7:45 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:00 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Dakota, where the typical start moved 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Jones County now leave 7 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 Jones County has moved 11 minutes earlier.

How does Jones County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jones County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	6.7 min	15.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	12.7%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	17.7%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jones County is 6.7 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 17.7% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau