Adams County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Adams County, Colorado: 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 Adams County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Adams County spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 236 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Adams County holds about 9.0% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 11.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Adams County would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,925 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)
Adams County	28.3 min	56.6 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,313	3,012
Colorado	22.0 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,694	1,277
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: Colorado Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Colorado

Hinsdale County (6.6 min)
Prowers County (7.6 min)
Cheyenne County (7.7 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Colorado

Park County (42.5 min)
Elbert County (41.5 min)
Teller County (31.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Adams County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 28.3 minutes to get to work in Adams County. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 92% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Adams County

Biking is unusually rare in Adams County: 4.4 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Adams County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Adams 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.6%	3.3%	4.2%	1.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	89.3%	3.4%	4.3%	1.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	89.3%	3.5%	4.2%	1.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	89.8%	3.4%	3.9%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	89.5%	3.9%	3.8%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	89.6%	3.9%	3.9%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	89.5%	4.4%	3.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	89.2%	4.6%	3.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.8%	5.0%	3.8%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	89.0%	5.1%	3.7%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	88.8%	5.4%	3.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	87.1%	7.2%	3.4%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	85.3%	9.4%	2.9%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	83.6%	11.4%	2.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	82.0%	13.4%	2.1%	1.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	80.3%	15.3%	1.8%	1.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 89.8%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 80.3% in 2024, down 9.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Adams County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 15.3% in 2024, up 12.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.2% to 1.8% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Adams County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Adams County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.9%

Adams County Colorado Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Adams County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Colorado: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Adams 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 Adams 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 Adams County next to Colorado 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	Adams County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Adams County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Adams County now leave 20 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 Adams County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Adams County's commute time compare?

Metric	Adams County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.3 min	22.0 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.3%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Adams County is 28.3 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

1.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Colorado. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Adams County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Adams County, CO is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 525,525 residents against a local median of 350,361. The measure that sets Adams County, CO apart most is work from home: 15.3%, 28% below the local median of 21.1%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 28.3 min against a local median of 23.5 min, 21% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% above the local median it puts Adams County, CO at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 18.7% on work from home, so Adams County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Adams County, CO has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Adams County, CO	525,525	28.3 min #5/6	15.3% #4/6	7:17 AM #3/6
Arapahoe County, CO	647,849	25.2 min	21.1%	7:38 AM
Denver County, CO	718,150	22.9 min	27.3%	7:47 AM
Elbert County, CO	27,839	41.5 min	21.3%	7:06 AM
Morgan County, CO	29,520	13.6 min	8.6%	7:09 AM
Weld County, CO	350,361	23.5 min	14.3%	7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Adams County, Colorado.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Adams County, Colorado?

Commuters here spend an estimated 236 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,313 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Adams County, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Adams County, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Colorado?

Among counties in Colorado, the shortest average commutes are in Hinsdale County (6.6 min), Prowers County (7.6 min), Cheyenne County (7.7 min). The longest are in Park County (42.5 min), Elbert County (41.5 min), Teller County (31.3 min).