Sheridan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sheridan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sheridan 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 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.7 minutes.

Sheridan County holds about 5.5% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 5.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sheridan County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,295 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)
Sheridan County	12.5 min	25.1 min	104 hrs/yr	$3,237	275
Wyoming	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,422	263
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: Wyoming Counties

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

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 9.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sheridan County

• Car: 86.5%
• Worked at Home: 9.5%
• Walked: 3.1%
• Other: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Sheridan County, versus 0.2% in Wyoming.

Public transit is unusually rare in Sheridan County: 9.9 times less than the Wyoming average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Sheridan County, versus 0.0% in Wyoming.

Commute Mode Trends in Sheridan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sheridan 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
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.4%	4.8%	3.1%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	90.3%	4.8%	3.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	90.3%	4.5%	3.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	89.9%	4.8%	3.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	89.0%	5.4%	3.8%	0.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	87.7%	6.9%	3.7%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	88.9%	5.5%	3.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	87.2%	7.1%	3.6%	0.5%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.3%	5.6%	3.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.6%	9.0%	2.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.8%	8.3%	3.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.8%	7.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.7%	8.0%	2.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.3%	8.8%	2.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.6%	7.3%	3.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	86.5%	9.5%	3.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 86.5% in 2024, down 3.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sheridan County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 9.5% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sheridan County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sheridan County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Sheridan County3.8% Wyoming5.8%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sheridan County3.4% Wyoming4.3%	3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sheridan County7.4% Wyoming6.2%	7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sheridan County7.7% Wyoming7.8%	7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sheridan County11.3% Wyoming10.4%	11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sheridan County16.7% Wyoming15.1%	16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sheridan County16.5% Wyoming16.2%	16.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sheridan County11.4% Wyoming9.7%	11.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sheridan County2.6% Wyoming4.2%	2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sheridan County6.1% Wyoming5.6%	6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sheridan County1.2% Wyoming2.3%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sheridan County2.1% Wyoming1.5%	2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sheridan County5.5% Wyoming5.6%	5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sheridan County4.2% Wyoming5.3%	4.2%

Sheridan County Wyoming Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Sheridan County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Wyoming. Early starts are less common than in Wyoming: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wyoming: 55.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.2%) 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan 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 Sheridan County next to Wyoming 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.

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• Wyoming
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Sheridan County	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sheridan County were on the road by 7:29 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Wyoming, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Sheridan County now leave 8 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 Sheridan County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Sheridan County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sheridan County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.5 min	13.2 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	9.5%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	3.1%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sheridan County is about the same as in Wyoming.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 3.1% commute by walking, lower than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau