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Commute Time Burden in Custer County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Custer County spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Custer 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 Custer County would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,325 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)
Custer County 22.5 min 45.0 min 188 hrs/yr $5,812 125
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
  1. Hinsdale County (6.6 min)
  2. Prowers County (7.6 min)
  3. Cheyenne County (7.7 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Colorado
  1. Park County (42.5 min)
  2. Elbert County (41.5 min)
  3. Teller County (31.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 22.5 minutes to get to work in Custer County. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 76% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Custer County

  • Car: 73.4%
  • Worked at Home: 23.5%
  • Walked: 3.1%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

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

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Custer County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Custer 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 Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle Other
2009 75.4% 13.8% 8.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 1.8%
2010 79.5% 10.8% 7.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 1.7%
2011 78.2% 13.3% 7.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
2012 80.0% 13.5% 6.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 79.1% 14.7% 6.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 81.8% 14.1% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 81.3% 14.0% 4.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 82.8% 14.0% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 77.5% 19.6% 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 72.8% 21.2% 5.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0%
2019 77.8% 17.2% 4.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 77.2% 18.4% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 71.3% 23.6% 5.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 72.7% 23.2% 3.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2023 79.2% 17.9% 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 73.4% 23.5% 3.1% 0.0% 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 was highest in 2016 at 82.8% and lowest in 2021 at 71.3%. Overall it fell from 75.4% in 2009 to 73.4% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Custer County: its share of workers rose from 13.8% in 2009 to 23.5% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.3% to 3.1% of workers (down 5.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Custer County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Custer County?

The bars show when commuters in Custer 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
3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
28.8%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
9.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Custer County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 28.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across Colorado. Early starts are about as common as in Colorado: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 62.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Custer 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 Custer 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 Custer 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 Custer County Colorado United States
2009 7:44 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:29 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:32 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:42 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:43 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:43 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:49 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:41 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:40 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:37 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:45 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:52 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Custer County were on the road by 7:52 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Custer County now leave 14 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 Custer County has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Custer County in the whole series.

How does Custer County's commute time compare?

Metric Custer County Colorado US Average
Avg. Commute Time 22.5 min 22.0 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 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 23.5% 21.0% 15.0%
Walked 3.1% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Custer County is 22.5 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 3.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Custer County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Custer County, CO is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 5,247 residents against a local median of 16,581. Where Custer County, CO breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 46% above the local median of 16.1% at 23.5%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.5 min against a local median of 16.8 min, 34% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 34% above the local median it puts Custer County, CO at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 19.6% on work from home, so Custer County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Custer County, CO has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Custer County, CO 5,247 22.5 min #5/6 23.5% #2/6 7:52 AM #6/6
Fremont County, CO 49,630 16.8 min 13.7% 7:26 AM
Huerfano County, CO 6,972 12.2 min 24.6% 7:36 AM
Alamosa County, CO 16,581 11.7 min 5.0% 7:48 AM
Teller County, CO 24,825 31.3 min 20.5% 7:15 AM
Costilla County, CO 3,607 17.7 min 16.1% 7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Custer County, Colorado.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,813 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Custer County, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Custer County, 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 Custer County, Colorado?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Colorado, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Colorado have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).