Dakota Ridge Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Dakota Ridge, 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 Dakota Ridge: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dakota Ridge spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Dakota Ridge holds about 0.6% of Colorado's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Dakota Ridge would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,448 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)
Dakota Ridge	23.7 min	47.4 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,119	2,860
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.

Dakota Ridge Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Dakota Ridge. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 23.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dakota Ridge

Walking is unusually rare in Dakota Ridge: 6.1 times less than the Colorado average (0.4% vs 2.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Dakota Ridge: 3.0 times less than the Colorado average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Dakota Ridge: just 0.7%, 4.8 times below the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dakota Ridge, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Dakota Ridge 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	89.3%	5.8%	2.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	89.0%	5.9%	2.7%	0.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	89.2%	6.1%	2.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	90.1%	5.9%	1.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	90.6%	6.0%	1.4%	0.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	90.6%	6.1%	1.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	91.2%	5.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	91.2%	5.7%	1.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	90.4%	6.1%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	89.6%	6.5%	2.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	88.0%	8.0%	2.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	85.2%	11.1%	1.7%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	82.7%	13.9%	1.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	79.6%	17.3%	1.4%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	76.1%	20.3%	1.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	73.1%	23.7%	1.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 89.3% in 2009 to 73.1% in 2024, down 16.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dakota Ridge: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 23.7% in 2024, up 17.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Dakota Ridge

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dakota Ridge?

The bars show when commuters in Dakota Ridge 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		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		20.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Dakota Ridge is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 11.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 52.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.2%) 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 Dakota Ridge, 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 Dakota Ridge 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 Dakota Ridge 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	Dakota Ridge	Colorado	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dakota Ridge were on the road by 7:28 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Dakota Ridge now leave 10 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 Dakota Ridge has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Dakota Ridge's commute time compare?

Metric	Dakota Ridge	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	23.7%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dakota Ridge is 23.7 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Dakota Ridge, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Dakota Ridge, CO is typical in size for this group, 33,171 residents against a local median of 33,219, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Dakota Ridge, CO an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 2% above the local median at 23.7% against 23.2%. Dakota Ridge, CO has the 2nd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Dakota Ridge, CO	33,171	23.7 min #2/4	23.7% #2/4	7:28 AM #1/4
Ken Caryl, CO	33,219	26.2 min	26.8%	7:28 AM
Columbine, CO	24,950	23.9 min	22.4%	7:41 AM
Lakewood, CO	154,777	23.1 min	23.2%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Dakota Ridge, Colorado.

Is living in Dakota Ridge, Colorado good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,119 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Dakota Ridge, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Dakota Ridge, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.