Alamosa County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Alamosa County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Alamosa County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 47% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 10.3 minutes.

Alamosa County holds about 0.3% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Alamosa County would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,212 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)
Alamosa County	11.7 min	23.4 min	98 hrs/yr	$3,029	270
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.

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On average, it takes 11.7 minutes to get to work in Alamosa County. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 5.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Alamosa County

• Car: 87.2%
• Walked: 5.9%
• Worked at Home: 5.0% unusually low
• Other: 1.5%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Alamosa County: 21.0 times less than the Colorado average (0.1% vs 1.6%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Alamosa County, versus 0.1% in Colorado.

Working from home is unusually rare in Alamosa County: 4.2 times less than the Colorado average (5.0% vs 21.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Alamosa County: 3.9 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Alamosa County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Alamosa 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	83.2%	10.3%	4.3%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.2%	7.9%	3.5%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	85.9%	7.4%	3.9%	0.6%	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	85.6%	7.8%	3.2%	1.2%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.8%	6.7%	3.7%	0.9%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.8%	7.4%	2.2%	0.4%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.7%	7.7%	2.2%	0.3%	2.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	89.2%	5.6%	2.6%	0.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	4.2%	2.9%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	91.9%	4.2%	2.7%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.5%	3.8%	2.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	91.1%	4.5%	3.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.2%	4.7%	4.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.2%	3.8%	4.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.9%	4.9%	3.9%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.2%	5.9%	5.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 92.5%. Overall it rose from 83.2% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Alamosa County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 5.0% in 2024, up 0.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 10.3% to 5.9% of workers (down 4.4 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 2.6% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Alamosa County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Alamosa County?

The bars show when commuters in Alamosa 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	12:00-4:59 AM Alamosa County0.6% Colorado4.6%	0.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Alamosa County1.2% Colorado3.6%	1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Alamosa County3.3% Colorado5.0%	3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Alamosa County7.8% Colorado8.5%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Alamosa County6.2% Colorado10.2%	6.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Alamosa County15.8% Colorado15.3%	15.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Alamosa County24.7% Colorado12.8%	24.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Alamosa County15.6% Colorado11.8%	15.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Alamosa County2.7% Colorado5.4%	2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Alamosa County4.8% Colorado6.9%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Alamosa County3.4% Colorado3.2%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Alamosa County1.1% Colorado1.5%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Alamosa County3.8% Colorado6.0%	3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Alamosa County9.0% Colorado5.2%	9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Alamosa County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 24.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 5.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 62.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Alamosa 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 Alamosa 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 Alamosa 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Alamosa County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Alamosa County were on the road by 7:48 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Alamosa County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Alamosa County's commute time compare?

Metric	Alamosa County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.7 min	22.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.0%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Alamosa County is 11.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 5.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau