Costilla County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Costilla County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Costilla 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 148 hours, about 6.2 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 4.3 minutes.

Costilla County holds about 0.1% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Costilla County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,833 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)
Costilla County	17.7 min	35.5 min	148 hrs/yr	$4,581	181
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 17.7 minutes to get to work in Costilla County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Costilla County

• Car: 77.3%
• Worked at Home: 16.1%
• Walked: 5.9%
• Other: 0.7%
• 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 Costilla County, versus 0.1% in Colorado.

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Costilla County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Costilla 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	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.0%	9.9%	4.0%	4.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	80.6%	12.5%	5.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	82.4%	8.8%	4.2%	3.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.5%	7.5%	3.6%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.8%	6.7%	4.2%	3.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	89.9%	4.0%	4.8%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.7%	5.9%	5.1%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.3%	6.2%	5.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.3%	7.4%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.8%	8.3%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.5%	6.7%	3.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.3%	6.2%	4.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.7%	10.4%	4.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.7%	9.0%	5.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	82.9%	12.6%	3.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.3%	16.1%	5.9%	0.7%	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 2014 at 89.9%. Overall it fell from 81.0% in 2009 to 77.3% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Costilla County: its share of workers rose from 9.9% in 2009 to 16.1% in 2024, up 6.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.7% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Costilla County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Costilla County?

The bars show when commuters in Costilla 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 Costilla County7.8% Colorado4.6%	7.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Costilla County2.7% Colorado3.6%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Costilla County3.5% Colorado5.0%	3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Costilla County5.7% Colorado8.5%	5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Costilla County13.9% Colorado10.2%	13.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Costilla County13.6% Colorado15.3%	13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Costilla County10.1% Colorado12.8%	10.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Costilla County11.5% Colorado11.8%	11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Costilla County6.7% Colorado5.4%	6.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Costilla County8.3% Colorado6.9%	8.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Costilla County3.5% Colorado3.2%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Costilla County0.0% Colorado1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Costilla County4.5% Colorado6.0%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Costilla County8.0% Colorado5.2%	8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Costilla County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Colorado. Early starts are about as common as in Colorado: 14.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.4%) 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 Costilla 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 Costilla 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 Costilla 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	Costilla County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Costilla County were on the road by 7:38 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Costilla 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 Costilla County has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Costilla County's commute time compare?

Metric	Costilla County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.7 min	22.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	16.1%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Costilla County is 17.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.0% 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