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Counties With the Shortest Commute in South Dakota (2026)

Jackson has the lowest commute time of any county in South Dakota, at 11.4 min, followed by Bennett and Hand. Source: Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024. The full ranking of the top 25 counties is below.

Data updated 2024 - Source: Census ACS 5-Year

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Shortest counties for commute time in South Dakota

Top 25 of 66 counties with data.

Ranked by avg commute time (Census ACS 5-Year, 2020-2024), lowest first.

Shortest counties for commute time in South Dakota
RankCountyValue
1Jackson11.4 min
2Bennett12.0 min
3Hand13.2 min
4Beadle13.4 min
5Buffalo13.4 min
6Oglala Lakota13.5 min
7Grant13.7 min
8Tripp13.8 min
9Brown13.9 min
10Davison14.1 min
11Charles Mix14.1 min
12Codington14.1 min
13Potter14.2 min
14Brookings14.3 min
15Hughes14.6 min
16Perkins14.7 min
17Lake14.9 min
18Hyde15.3 min
19Yankton15.3 min
20Jones15.3 min
21Campbell15.5 min
22Brule15.5 min
23Lyman15.8 min
24Jerauld15.8 min
25Gregory15.9 min

How this ranking works

This page ranks South Dakota counties by avg commute time, sorted so the shortest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For commute time, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh commute time against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of avg commute time.

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