Columbine Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Columbine, 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 Columbine: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Columbine spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 199 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Columbine holds about 0.4% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Columbine would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,470 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)
Columbine	23.9 min	47.8 min	199 hrs/yr	$6,174	3,020
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.

Columbine Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.9 minutes to get to work in Columbine. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Columbine

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Columbine: 573.0 times less than the Colorado average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Columbine: 3.4 times less than the Colorado average (0.5% vs 1.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Columbine, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Columbine 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	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.3%	5.7%	1.2%	1.3%	0.2%	2.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	87.7%	6.3%	1.6%	1.3%	0.2%	2.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	87.6%	6.5%	1.4%	1.0%	0.2%	3.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	87.3%	6.5%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	3.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	88.0%	6.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.5%	2.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	86.4%	8.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.5%	3.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	86.7%	8.7%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	86.6%	9.1%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	85.7%	9.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	2.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	85.5%	9.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	2.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2019	86.1%	9.4%	0.9%	1.0%	0.3%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	84.3%	10.7%	1.1%	1.1%	0.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	80.7%	14.8%	1.1%	0.9%	0.6%	1.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2022	79.4%	16.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.5%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	76.4%	20.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.0%	22.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	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 88.3% in 2009 to 75.0% in 2024, down 13.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Columbine: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 22.4% in 2024, up 16.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 0.5% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Biking overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Columbine

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Columbine?

The bars show when commuters in Columbine 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		2.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Columbine is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are about as common as in Colorado: 13.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 53.0% 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 Columbine, 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 Columbine 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 Columbine 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	Columbine	Colorado	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Columbine were on the road by 7:41 AM, 15 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Columbine now leave 4 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Columbine has moved 19 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Columbine in the whole series.

How does Columbine's commute time compare?

Metric	Columbine	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	22.4%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Columbine is 23.9 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Columbine, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Columbine, CO is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 24,950 residents against a local median of 33,219. Nothing separates Columbine, CO sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 5% below the local median at 22.4% against 23.7%. Columbine, CO has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Columbine, CO	24,950	23.9 min #3/4	22.4% #4/4	7:41 AM #3/4
Ken Caryl, CO	33,219	26.2 min	26.8%	7:28 AM
Littleton, CO	42,306	23.3 min	23.7%	7:51 AM
Dakota Ridge, CO	33,171	23.7 min	23.7%	7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Columbine, Colorado.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 199 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,174 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Columbine, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Columbine, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Columbine, Colorado?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Colorado, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.