Conejos County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Conejos County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Conejos County spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 190 hours, about 7.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Conejos County holds about 0.1% of Colorado's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Conejos County would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,360 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)
Conejos County	22.8 min	45.7 min	190 hrs/yr	$5,901	153
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 22.8 minutes to get to work in Conejos County. That's 2% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 78% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Conejos County

• Car: 82.3%
• Worked at Home: 13.7%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Other: 1.9%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Conejos County, versus 0.1% in Colorado.

Public transit is essentially absent in Conejos County, versus 1.6% in Colorado.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Conejos County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Conejos 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.7%	9.1%	3.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.3%	7.1%	1.9%	2.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.1%	8.2%	3.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	84.4%	9.6%	3.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	88.3%	6.5%	3.3%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.2%	6.6%	2.8%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	90.1%	5.7%	2.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.9%	4.7%	1.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.0%	4.6%	1.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	90.8%	5.5%	2.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	90.1%	5.3%	3.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	85.5%	11.4%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	85.4%	11.4%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.2%	13.3%	2.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.3%	13.2%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.3%	13.7%	2.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 92.0%. Overall it fell from 85.7% in 2009 to 82.3% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Conejos County: its share of workers rose from 9.1% in 2009 to 13.7% in 2024, up 4.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.6% to 2.1% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Conejos County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Conejos County?

The bars show when commuters in Conejos 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 Conejos County4.5% Colorado4.6%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Conejos County3.5% Colorado3.6%	3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Conejos County2.8% Colorado5.0%	2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Conejos County3.9% Colorado8.5%	3.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Conejos County13.8% Colorado10.2%	13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Conejos County26.2% Colorado15.3%	26.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Conejos County12.5% Colorado12.8%	12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Conejos County5.6% Colorado11.8%	5.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Conejos County3.1% Colorado5.4%	3.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Conejos County4.3% Colorado6.9%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Conejos County8.2% Colorado3.2%	8.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Conejos County0.5% Colorado1.5%	0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Conejos County5.0% Colorado6.0%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Conejos County6.1% Colorado5.2%	6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Conejos County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 26.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 10.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 58.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Conejos 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 Conejos 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 Conejos 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	Conejos County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Conejos County were on the road by 7:25 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:31 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Conejos County now leave 13 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 Conejos County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Conejos County's commute time compare?

Metric	Conejos County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.7%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Conejos County is 22.8 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.0% 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