Elbert County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Elbert County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Elbert County spend about 83 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 346 hours, about 14.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 88% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 19.5 minutes.

Elbert County holds about 0.5% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Elbert County would save about 138 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,291 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)
Elbert County	41.5 min	83.0 min	346 hrs/yr	$10,727	1,480
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

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On average, it takes 41.5 minutes to get to work in Elbert County. That's 85% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Elbert County

• Car: 77.0%
• Worked at Home: 21.3%
• Walked: 1.0%
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Elbert County: 10.1 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Elbert County: just 1.0%, 3.6 times below the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Elbert County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Elbert 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	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	87.5%	9.9%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	87.2%	9.7%	1.4%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	88.0%	9.4%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	84.7%	12.3%	1.4%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	84.2%	13.0%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.4%	11.2%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	86.6%	11.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	86.3%	11.6%	1.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	87.4%	10.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	88.5%	9.6%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	88.0%	9.6%	1.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.9%	10.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.5%	14.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.8%	16.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	78.7%	19.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.0%	21.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2018 at 88.5%. Overall it fell from 87.5% in 2009 to 77.0% in 2024, down 10.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Elbert County: its share of workers rose from 9.9% in 2009 to 21.3% in 2024, up 11.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Elbert County

• 🐦 Early BirdThe 2nd-earliest start among Colorado's 64 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:06 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Elbert County?

The bars show when commuters in Elbert 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 Elbert County5.0% Colorado4.6%	5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Elbert County7.3% Colorado3.6%	7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Elbert County5.2% Colorado5.0%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Elbert County14.8% Colorado8.5%	14.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Elbert County13.3% Colorado10.2%	13.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Elbert County20.7% Colorado15.3%	20.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Elbert County7.6% Colorado12.8%	7.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Elbert County7.4% Colorado11.8%	7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Elbert County3.4% Colorado5.4%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Elbert County6.1% Colorado6.9%	6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Elbert County3.2% Colorado3.2%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Elbert County0.7% Colorado1.5%	0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Elbert County2.6% Colorado6.0%	2.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Elbert County2.7% Colorado5.2%	2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Elbert County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.3%) 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 Elbert 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 Elbert 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 Elbert 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	Elbert County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:04 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:08 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:05 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:05 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:05 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Elbert County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Elbert County now leave 31 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 Elbert County has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Elbert County's commute time compare?

Metric	Elbert County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	41.5 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.3%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Elbert County is 41.5 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau