Grand County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Grand County, 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 Grand County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grand County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Grand County holds about 0.3% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grand County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,829 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)
Grand County	17.7 min	35.4 min	148 hrs/yr	$4,574	368
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

Hinsdale County (6.6 min)
Prowers County (7.6 min)
Cheyenne County (7.7 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Colorado

Park County (42.5 min)
Elbert County (41.5 min)
Teller County (31.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Grand County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.7 minutes to get to work in Grand County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 19.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grand County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Grand County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grand 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	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	85.6%	8.6%	4.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.5%	8.5%	3.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	85.4%	8.8%	4.5%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	83.7%	8.6%	6.1%	0.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.7%	6.7%	5.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	83.5%	9.3%	4.8%	1.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	81.4%	9.4%	5.7%	2.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	78.8%	11.5%	6.3%	1.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	79.4%	10.5%	5.5%	2.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	76.5%	11.9%	6.0%	3.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	73.3%	15.7%	6.6%	2.1%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	74.4%	14.5%	5.7%	3.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	72.2%	15.9%	5.9%	4.9%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	69.3%	18.7%	6.8%	3.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	67.9%	21.7%	6.0%	2.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.9%	19.6%	5.1%	1.5%	1.3%	0.7%	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 2010 at 87.5% and lowest in 2023 at 67.9%. Overall it fell from 85.6% in 2009 to 71.9% in 2024, down 13.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grand County: its share of workers rose from 8.6% in 2009 to 19.6% in 2024, up 11.0 percentage points.

Public transit peaked at 4.9% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 1.5%.

Commute Start Times in Grand County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grand County?

The bars show when commuters in Grand 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		12.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		1.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		1.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grand County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% 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: 53.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.6%) 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 Grand 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 Grand 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 Grand 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	Grand County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:59 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grand County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Grand County now leave 2 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 Grand County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Grand County's commute time compare?

Metric	Grand County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	19.6%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grand County is 17.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 5.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Grand County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Grand County, CO is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 15,895 residents against a local median of 9,259. Grand County, CO's work from home, at 19.6%, runs 17% below the 23.7% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 17.1% on work from home, so Grand County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Grand County, CO has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Grand County, CO	15,895	17.7 min #3/6	19.6% #4/6	7:35 AM #3/6
Summit County, CO	31,017	17.4 min	23.7%	7:50 AM
Jackson County, CO	1,372	8.8 min	29.7%	7:35 AM
Clear Creek County, CO	9,259	30.4 min	24.2%	7:56 AM
Gilpin County, CO	5,901	31.1 min	15.7%	7:16 AM
Eagle County, CO	55,135	20.2 min	12.6%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grand County, Colorado.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,574 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Grand County, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Grand County, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How do commute times compare across counties in Colorado?

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).