Fountain Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Fountain, 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 Fountain: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fountain spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

Fountain holds about 0.5% of Colorado's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fountain would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,414 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)
Fountain	23.4 min	46.7 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,036	2,021
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.

Fountain Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.4 minutes to get to work in Fountain. That's 4% 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 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fountain

Public transit is unusually rare in Fountain: 4.2 times less than the Colorado average (0.4% vs 1.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fountain, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fountain 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	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	91.4%	5.1%	1.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	91.7%	4.1%	1.2%	1.8%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	3.9%	1.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.7%	3.6%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	3.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	92.2%	3.3%	1.1%	2.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	3.6%	1.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	92.9%	3.7%	1.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	91.3%	4.7%	1.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	91.4%	4.2%	1.6%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.2%	4.3%	1.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.3%	4.1%	1.0%	1.4%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	91.9%	5.0%	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.7%	5.1%	1.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	8.2%	1.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	86.3%	10.5%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	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 93.0%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 86.3% in 2024, down 5.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fountain: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Fountain

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fountain?

The bars show when commuters in Fountain 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		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fountain is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 15.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 51.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Fountain, 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 Fountain 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 Fountain 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	Fountain	Colorado	United States
2009	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:12 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:04 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:01 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:57 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fountain were on the road by 7:20 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:15 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Fountain now leave 18 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 Fountain has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Fountain's commute time compare?

Metric	Fountain	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 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	10.5%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fountain is 23.4 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Fountain, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Fountain, CO compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Fountain, CO	26,829	23.4 min #3/3	10.5% #3/3	7:20 AM #2/3
Security-Widefield, CO	32,834	22.0 min	13.0%	7:20 AM
Cimarron Hills, CO	22,094	22.0 min	12.6%	7:26 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Fountain, Colorado.

Is commuting expensive in Fountain, Colorado?

Commuters here spend an estimated 195 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,036 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Fountain, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Fountain, 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.

Do people use public transit in Fountain, Colorado?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.4% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Colorado, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.