Huerfano County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Huerfano County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Huerfano County spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 101 hours, about 4.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Huerfano 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 Huerfano County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,258 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)
Huerfano County	12.2 min	24.4 min	101 hrs/yr	$3,146	174
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.

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On average, it takes 12.2 minutes to get to work in Huerfano County. That's 46% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Huerfano County

• Car: 73.2%
• Worked at Home: 24.6%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is essentially absent in Huerfano County, versus 1.6% in Colorado.

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Huerfano County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Huerfano 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	82.3%	7.4%	6.4%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2010	78.7%	11.6%	5.6%	2.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2011	76.8%	12.4%	5.5%	4.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	81.1%	9.6%	5.4%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	80.2%	8.7%	6.8%	1.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2014	80.5%	6.4%	9.0%	1.0%	2.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2015	79.8%	5.6%	11.4%	0.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%
2016	80.9%	8.6%	7.9%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	84.5%	6.2%	7.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	80.9%	10.8%	7.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	78.3%	13.8%	6.5%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	75.2%	17.9%	5.5%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	78.8%	16.0%	4.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	80.0%	17.9%	1.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.7%	25.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	73.2%	24.6%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	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 2017 at 84.5%. Overall it fell from 82.3% in 2009 to 73.2% in 2024, down 9.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Huerfano County: its share of workers rose from 7.4% in 2009 to 24.6% in 2024, up 17.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.4% to 1.5% of workers (down 4.9 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.4% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Huerfano County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Huerfano County?

The bars show when commuters in Huerfano 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 Huerfano County1.3% Colorado4.6%	1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Huerfano County1.3% Colorado3.6%	1.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Huerfano County10.0% Colorado5.0%	10.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Huerfano County7.2% Colorado8.5%	7.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Huerfano County1.9% Colorado10.2%	1.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Huerfano County26.1% Colorado15.3%	26.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Huerfano County11.0% Colorado12.8%	11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Huerfano County8.5% Colorado11.8%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Huerfano County3.5% Colorado5.4%	3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Huerfano County16.8% Colorado6.9%	16.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Huerfano County0.6% Colorado3.2%	0.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Huerfano County0.0% Colorado1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Huerfano County4.4% Colorado6.0%	4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Huerfano County7.2% Colorado5.2%	7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Huerfano County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 26.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are about as common as in Colorado: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Colorado: 47.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.1%) 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 Huerfano 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 Huerfano 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 Huerfano 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	Huerfano County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Huerfano County were on the road by 7:36 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:49 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Huerfano County now leave 2 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Huerfano County's commute time compare?

Metric	Huerfano County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.2 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	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.6%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Huerfano County is 12.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau