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Stevens County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Stevens County, Washington: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Stevens County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stevens 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 193 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Stevens County holds about 0.6% of Washington's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stevens County would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,398 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)
Stevens County 23.2 min 46.4 min 193 hrs/yr $5,996 361
Washington 22.4 min 44.8 min 187 hrs/yr $5,785 1,525
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: Washington Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Washington
  1. Walla Walla County (12.2 min)
  2. San Juan County (12.3 min)
  3. Asotin County (13.2 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Washington
  1. Mason County (32.0 min)
  2. Garfield County (28.4 min)
  3. Snohomish County (28.3 min)

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Stevens County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Stevens County. That's 4% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 82% of counties in Washington

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 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stevens County

  • Car: 85.7%
  • Worked at Home: 11.1%
  • Walked: 1.6%
  • Other: 1.1%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Stevens County: 123.9 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 3.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Stevens County, versus 0.1% in Washington.

Biking is unusually rare in Stevens County: 3.5 times less than the Washington average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Stevens County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stevens 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Motorcycle Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 88.1% 7.6% 2.2% 1.1% 0.2% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1%
2010 89.0% 6.9% 2.3% 1.0% 0.2% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 88.9% 6.6% 2.2% 1.1% 0.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0%
2012 88.0% 7.1% 2.5% 1.3% 0.2% 0.6% 0.3% 0.0%
2013 88.3% 6.8% 3.1% 0.9% 0.1% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0%
2014 87.5% 7.0% 3.1% 1.0% 0.2% 0.2% 1.0% 0.0%
2015 87.5% 6.4% 3.5% 1.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.8% 0.0%
2016 88.2% 5.8% 3.7% 1.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0%
2017 87.8% 5.6% 4.0% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0%
2018 87.7% 6.5% 3.2% 1.4% 0.3% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0%
2019 89.0% 6.1% 3.0% 0.9% 0.2% 0.1% 0.8% 0.0%
2020 89.2% 6.2% 2.8% 1.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0%
2021 87.8% 7.6% 2.6% 1.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0%
2022 86.9% 9.1% 1.9% 1.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0%
2023 87.1% 9.5% 1.6% 1.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2024 85.7% 11.1% 1.6% 1.1% 0.3% 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 peaked in 2020 at 89.2%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, down 2.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stevens County: its share of workers rose from 7.6% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 1.6% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Stevens County

  • Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Washington's 39 counties: 25.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stevens County?

The bars show when commuters in Stevens 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 Washington for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
9.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.7%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
7.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.5%

Stevens County Washington Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Stevens County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are more common than in Washington: 25.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush looks much like Washington's: 43.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.1%) 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 Stevens 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 Stevens 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 Stevens County next to Washington 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Stevens County Washington United States
2009 7:21 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:18 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:16 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:16 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:17 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:19 AM 7:35 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:19 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:20 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:19 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:13 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:13 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:09 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:08 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:10 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:10 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stevens County were on the road by 7:10 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). That goes against the trend across Washington, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Stevens County now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Stevens County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Stevens County's commute time compare?

Metric Stevens County Washington US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.2 min 22.4 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.1% 19.8% 15.0%
Walked 1.6% 3.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 3.4% 3.2%

The average commute time in Stevens County is 23.2 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Stevens County, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Stevens County, WA is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 48,063 residents against a local median of 14,050. The measure that sets Stevens County, WA apart most is work from home: 11.1%, 17% below the local median of 13.4%.

The counties themselves spread 3.5% on work from home, so Stevens County, WA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Stevens County, WA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Stevens County, WA 48,063 23.2 min #6/6 11.1% #6/6 7:10 AM #1/6
Pend Oreille County, WA 14,050 21.8 min 13.4% 7:20 AM
Ferry County, WA 7,387 16.4 min 14.4% 7:23 AM
Spokane County, WA 548,846 20.5 min 15.5% 7:35 AM
Lincoln County, WA 11,488 22.5 min 13.0% 7:13 AM
Bonner County, ID 51,033 17.9 min 12.0% 7:22 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Stevens County, Washington.

Is living in Stevens County, Washington good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 193 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,996 at a typical national wage. That's 4% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Stevens County, Washington?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Stevens County, Washington. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Stevens County, Washington?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 3.4% in Washington, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Washington?

Among counties in Washington, the shortest average commutes are in Walla Walla County (12.2 min), San Juan County (12.3 min), Asotin County (13.2 min). The longest are in Mason County (32.0 min), Garfield County (28.4 min), Snohomish County (28.3 min).