Gilpin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Gilpin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gilpin County spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.1 minutes.

Gilpin 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 Gilpin County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,216 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)
Gilpin County	31.1 min	62.2 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,040	925
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 31.1 minutes to get to work in Gilpin County. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Colorado

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 15.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gilpin County

• Car: 78.5%
• Worked at Home: 15.7%
• Public Transportation: 4.3%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Gilpin County: just 0.9%, 3.7 times below the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Gilpin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gilpin 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	86.8%	6.0%	4.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	83.6%	10.1%	4.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	85.2%	8.3%	4.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	87.0%	9.1%	1.3%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	88.3%	8.2%	1.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	86.7%	8.6%	1.5%	2.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.6%	6.8%	1.4%	3.2%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	82.4%	12.6%	1.4%	2.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	81.7%	13.6%	1.1%	2.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	82.0%	14.3%	0.5%	2.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	83.6%	14.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	82.4%	15.2%	0.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.0%	13.3%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.9%	11.6%	1.1%	1.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.9%	14.6%	2.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.5%	15.7%	4.3%	0.9%	0.5%	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 2013 at 88.3%. Overall it fell from 86.8% in 2009 to 78.5% in 2024, down 8.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gilpin County: its share of workers rose from 6.0% in 2009 to 15.7% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.9% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Gilpin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gilpin County?

The bars show when commuters in Gilpin 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 Gilpin County8.2% Colorado4.6%	8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Gilpin County1.5% Colorado3.6%	1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Gilpin County1.5% Colorado5.0%	1.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Gilpin County10.1% Colorado8.5%	10.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Gilpin County21.3% Colorado10.2%	21.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Gilpin County14.0% Colorado15.3%	14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Gilpin County9.4% Colorado12.8%	9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Gilpin County8.8% Colorado11.8%	8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Gilpin County2.4% Colorado5.4%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Gilpin County7.6% Colorado6.9%	7.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Gilpin County2.3% Colorado3.2%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Gilpin County0.4% Colorado1.5%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Gilpin County8.0% Colorado6.0%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Gilpin County4.6% Colorado5.2%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gilpin County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 21.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 11.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 53.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.9%) 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 Gilpin 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 Gilpin 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 Gilpin 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	Gilpin County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gilpin County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Gilpin County now leave 22 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 Gilpin County has moved 10 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Gilpin County in the whole series.

How does Gilpin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Gilpin County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.1 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	15.7%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.3%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gilpin County is 31.1 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

4.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Colorado. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau