Perkins County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Perkins County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Perkins County spend about 20 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 85 hours, about 3.6 full days, spent commuting.

That is 33% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Perkins 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 Perkins County would save about 34 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,058 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)
Perkins County	10.2 min	20.5 min	85 hrs/yr	$2,645	52
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 10.2 minutes to get to work in Perkins County. That's 54% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 83% of 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 27.9% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 68.1% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 27.9% unusually high
• Walked: 3.0%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Car commuting in Perkins County is 21% lower than the South Dakota average (68.1% vs 85.6%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Perkins County: 3.9 times less than the South Dakota average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

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

Worked at Home commuting is unusually common in Perkins County: 3.0 times more than the South Dakota average (27.9% vs 9.3%).

How does Perkins County's commute time compare?

Metric	Perkins County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.2 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	27.9%	9.3%	13.4%
Walked	3.0%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Perkins County is 10.2 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 3.0% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau