Counties in South Dakota by mean travel time to work

Name: Counties in South Dakota by mean travel time to work, 2022
Creator: U.S. Census Bureau
License: Public domain (US federal government work, citation requested)

Custer County had the highest mean travel time to work of 52 counties in 2022, at 31.1 minutes. Davison County had the lowest, at 12.8 minutes. The median was 17.9 minutes and the figure for South Dakota was 17.4 minutes. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest31.1Custer County

Lowest12.8Davison County

Median17.952 counties

South Dakota17.4History

All counties, 2022

CSV Chart (SVG)

minutes. Source: Invokely calculation with data from U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2022 minutes	Change on 2021
1	Custer County Estimated	31.1	+1
2	Deuel County Estimated	27.2	+3.6
3	Turner County Estimated	26.3	-0.4
4	McCook County Estimated	25.5	-0.7
5	Ziebach County Estimated	24.1	+1
6	Hanson County Estimated	23	-1
7	Butte County Estimated	21.2	-0.2
8	Corson County Estimated	21.1	-1
8	Hamlin County Estimated	21.1	-0.1
10	Bon Homme County Estimated	20.9	+0.1
11	McPherson County Estimated	20.8	-0.1
12	Meade County Estimated	20.7	+0.2
13	Edmunds County Estimated	20.6	+0.3
14	Sanborn County Estimated	20.3	-0.5
15	Clark County Estimated	20.1	+0.1
16	Fall River County Estimated	19.8	-0.9
17	Day County Estimated	19.5	+1.3
17	Miner County Estimated	19.5	-2
19	Lawrence County Estimated	19.1	+0.8
19	Moody County Estimated	19.1	+0.1
21	Douglas County Estimated	18.9	+1.9
22	Union County Estimated	18.8	0
23	Lincoln County Estimated	18.6	-0.6
24	Aurora County Estimated	18.5	+0.6
25	Pennington County Estimated	18.4	+0.1
26	Minnehaha County Estimated	17.9	+0.1
27	Marshall County Estimated	17.8	-0.6
28	Kingsbury County Estimated	17.5	-0.2
29	Hutchinson County Estimated	17.3	-0.7
30	Jerauld County Estimated	17.1	+1
31	Clay County Estimated	16.9	+0.6
31	Spink County Estimated	16.9	-0.8
33	Perkins County Estimated	16.8	+2.7
34	Sully County Estimated	16.7	+0.6
35	Gregory County Estimated	16.6	+0.4
36	Roberts County Estimated	16.5	-0.8
37	Lake County Estimated	16.4	-1
38	Todd County Estimated	16	-1.9
39	Mellette County Estimated	15.6	n/a
40	Grant County Estimated	15.4	+1.6
41	Yankton County Estimated	14.7	+0.8
42	Codington County Estimated	14.4	-0.2
42	Lyman County Estimated	14.4	-0.5
42	Tripp County Estimated	14.4	-0.2
45	Brookings County Estimated	14.3	-0.3
46	Beadle County Estimated	14	-0.1
47	Charles Mix County Estimated	13.9	0
48	Hughes County Estimated	13.5	+1.1
49	Brown County Estimated	13.4	+0.1
50	Hand County Estimated	13.2	-1.2
51	Brule County Estimated	13.1	-0.9
52	Davison County Estimated	12.8	+0.9

Other periods

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2021

About this ranking

Mean one-way travel time to work in minutes for workers aged 16 and over who did not work from home.

ACS five-year estimates: the period labels the final year of the five-year survey window, not a single calendar year. Calculated from aggregate minutes in B08135 and workers in B08303, with both inputs stored. Missing or suppressed county inputs are left out. Not mixed with ACS one-year estimates.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 7 counties with data in other periods have no value for 2022 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey 5-year estimates: mean travel time to work, B08135 aggregate minutes divided by B08303 workers not working at home. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/summary_file/2022/table-based-SF/data/5YRData/. Retrieved 2026-10-10.

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Questions

Which county has the highest mean travel time to work?

Custer County, with 31.1 minutes in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which county has the lowest mean travel time to work?

Davison County, with 12.8 minutes in 2022.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates: mean travel time to work, B08135 aggregate minutes divided by B08303 workers not working at home. Retrieved 2026-10-10. 7 counties have no value for 2022 and are not ranked.