Todd County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Todd County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Todd County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 104 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Todd County holds about 1.0% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Todd County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,288 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)
Todd County	12.5 min	24.9 min	104 hrs/yr	$3,220	93
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.

Commute Time Map: South Dakota Counties

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On average, it takes 12.5 minutes to get to work in Todd County. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 walking. About 3.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Todd County

• Car: 90.2%
• Walked: 5.5%
• Worked at Home: 3.6%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Todd County: 3832.8 times less than the South Dakota average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Todd County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Todd 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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• Walked
• Worked at Home
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.0%	7.4%	8.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	80.0%	10.8%	8.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	80.1%	11.0%	6.9%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	80.3%	8.9%	8.2%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	79.1%	8.3%	8.3%	3.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	75.7%	6.4%	12.2%	4.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	76.3%	6.0%	11.7%	5.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	77.7%	5.4%	11.4%	4.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	78.9%	5.7%	10.6%	3.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.3%	4.7%	8.0%	2.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.6%	5.4%	4.1%	0.2%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.2%	5.2%	3.5%	0.0%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.6%	4.9%	4.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.7%	5.7%	3.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	87.2%	8.0%	3.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.2%	5.5%	3.6%	0.7%	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 was highest in 2021 at 90.6% and lowest in 2014 at 75.7%. Overall it rose from 84.0% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 8.3% to 3.6% of workers (down 4.7 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 11.0% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 5.5%.

Commute Start Times in Todd County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Todd County?

The bars show when commuters in Todd 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 Todd County3.6% South Dakota4.1%	3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Todd County1.0% South Dakota3.1%	1.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Todd County0.8% South Dakota5.1%	0.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Todd County0.5% South Dakota6.9%	0.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Todd County0.8% South Dakota11.3%	0.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Todd County16.4% South Dakota16.2%	16.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Todd County49.0% South Dakota19.9%	49.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Todd County7.7% South Dakota10.2%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Todd County0.2% South Dakota3.7%	0.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Todd County2.4% South Dakota4.3%	2.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Todd County0.4% South Dakota2.0%	0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Todd County0.3% South Dakota1.4%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Todd County10.2% South Dakota6.1%	10.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Todd County6.6% South Dakota5.8%	6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Todd County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 49.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 19.9% across South Dakota. Early starts are less common than in South Dakota: 5.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in South Dakota: 73.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Todd 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 Todd 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 Todd 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.

• Todd County
• South Dakota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Todd County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Todd County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:54 AM). South Dakota followed the same path, with the typical start moving 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Todd County now leave 9 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 Todd County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Todd County's commute time compare?

Metric	Todd County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.5 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	3.6%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	5.5%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Todd County is 12.5 minutes, shorter than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 5.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau