Turner County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Turner County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Turner County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 50% more time on the road than the South Dakota average of 15.3 minutes each way, a difference of 7.7 minutes.

Turner County holds about 1.0% of South Dakota's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Turner County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,384 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)
Turner County	23.1 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,961	364
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 23.1 minutes to get to work in Turner County. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in South Dakota

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Turner County

• Car: 88.1%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Walked: 3.5%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Turner County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Turner 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	84.4%	9.3%	5.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	84.3%	8.8%	5.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	83.8%	8.6%	5.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	84.5%	8.7%	5.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.3%	8.4%	5.6%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	84.3%	7.5%	6.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	85.3%	7.5%	6.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.8%	6.5%	5.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	86.8%	6.3%	4.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.2%	7.0%	4.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	87.2%	7.3%	3.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	88.5%	6.6%	2.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	88.1%	7.0%	3.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	89.1%	6.6%	3.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	6.3%	3.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.1%	7.0%	3.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	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 2022 at 89.1% and lowest in 2011 at 83.8%. Overall it rose from 84.4% in 2009 to 88.1% in 2024, up 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 9.3% to 7.0% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Turner County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Turner County?

The bars show when commuters in Turner 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 Turner County5.9% South Dakota4.1%	5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Turner County3.3% South Dakota3.1%	3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Turner County5.3% South Dakota5.1%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Turner County10.6% South Dakota6.9%	10.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Turner County13.5% South Dakota11.3%	13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Turner County17.8% South Dakota16.2%	17.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Turner County17.5% South Dakota19.9%	17.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Turner County10.7% South Dakota10.2%	10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Turner County2.8% South Dakota3.7%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Turner County2.7% South Dakota4.3%	2.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Turner County1.2% South Dakota2.0%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Turner County1.0% South Dakota1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Turner County3.5% South Dakota6.1%	3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Turner County4.1% South Dakota5.8%	4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Turner County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.2% across South Dakota. Early starts are more common than in South Dakota: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 12.2% there. The morning rush looks much like South Dakota's: 59.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 57.7% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.5%) 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 Turner 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 Turner 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 Turner 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.

• Turner County
• South Dakota
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Turner County	South Dakota	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Turner County were on the road by 7:19 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). The shift is sharper than across South Dakota, where the typical start moved 5 minutes earlier. Commuters in Turner County now leave 19 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Turner County's commute time compare?

Metric	Turner County	South Dakota	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.1 min	15.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	7.0%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Turner County is 23.1 minutes, longer than the 15.3 minutes in South Dakota.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in South Dakota. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in South Dakota.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau