Lake County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lake County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lake County spend about 22 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 92 hours, about 3.8 full days, spent commuting.

That is 28% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Lake County holds about 1.3% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lake County would save about 37 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,137 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)
Lake County	11.0 min	22.0 min	92 hrs/yr	$2,842	630
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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 11.0 minutes to get to work in Lake County. That's 51% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

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 9.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.1%
• Worked at Home: 9.6%
• Walked: 4.7%
• Public Transportation: 1.4%
• Other: 1.1%
• Taxi: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

How does Lake County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lake County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.0 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	9.6%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	4.7%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Lake County is 11.0 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

1.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 4.7% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau