Archuleta County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Archuleta 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 Archuleta County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Archuleta County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Archuleta County holds about 0.2% of Colorado's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Archuleta County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,812 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)
Archuleta County	17.5 min	35.1 min	146 hrs/yr	$4,530	165
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

Archuleta County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Archuleta County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Archuleta County

Public transit is unusually rare in Archuleta County: 4.7 times less than the Colorado average (0.3% vs 1.6%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Archuleta County, versus 0.9% in Colorado.

Commute Mode Trends in Archuleta County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Archuleta 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	Walked	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.5%	5.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	1.8%
2010	88.7%	7.8%	2.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	87.6%	8.1%	2.1%	0.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%
2012	87.1%	8.6%	2.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%
2013	87.0%	8.6%	3.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	86.3%	9.3%	2.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%
2015	85.0%	9.3%	3.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%
2016	83.7%	10.9%	3.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	84.5%	9.7%	3.7%	0.5%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	84.5%	9.5%	3.6%	0.6%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	83.3%	10.5%	4.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%
2020	82.2%	13.5%	3.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	82.9%	13.3%	2.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	80.8%	16.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	80.0%	17.0%	2.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	79.2%	17.8%	2.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	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 90.5% in 2009 to 79.2% in 2024, down 11.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Archuleta County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 17.8% in 2024, up 12.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Walking overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.3% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 2.1%.

Commute Start Times in Archuleta County

Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Colorado's 64 counties: the typical start is 18 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Archuleta County?

The bars show when commuters in Archuleta 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		3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Archuleta County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 9.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 53.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Archuleta 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 Archuleta 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 Archuleta 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	Archuleta County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:53 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:45 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:52 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:49 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Archuleta County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:55 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Archuleta County now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Archuleta County has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Archuleta County in the whole series.

How does Archuleta County's commute time compare?

Metric	Archuleta County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.8%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Archuleta County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Archuleta County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Archuleta County, CO is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 13,900 residents against a local median of 11,321. The measure that sets Archuleta County, CO apart most is work from home: 17.8%, 74% above the local median of 10.2%.

The counties themselves spread 22.8% on work from home, so Archuleta County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Archuleta County, CO has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Archuleta County, CO	13,900	17.5 min #4/6	17.8% #3/6	7:37 AM #3/6
Mineral County, CO	729	8.7 min	7.6%	8:07 AM
Hinsdale County, CO	1,005	6.6 min	30.5%	8:13 AM
Rio Grande County, CO	11,321	15.6 min	9.3%	7:33 AM
Rio Arriba County, NM	40,067	28.1 min	10.2%	7:20 AM
La Plata County, CO	56,331	18.2 min	18.1%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Archuleta County, Colorado.

Is living in Archuleta County, Colorado good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,530 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Archuleta County, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Archuleta County, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Archuleta County, Colorado?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Colorado, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).