Jackson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jackson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jackson County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 74 hours, about 3.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 60% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 13.2 minutes.

Jackson County holds about 0.0% of Colorado's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jackson County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $912 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)
Jackson County	8.8 min	17.7 min	74 hrs/yr	$2,281	121
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 8.8 minutes to get to work in Jackson County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 90% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 29.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Jackson County

• Car: 53.3% unusually low
• Worked at Home: 29.7%
• Walked: 14.0% unusually high
• Bicycle: 2.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.9%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Driving is 27% less common in Jackson County than the Colorado average (53.3% vs 72.7%).

Walking is unusually common in Jackson County: 5.6 times more than the Colorado average (14.0% vs 2.5%).

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

Jackson County stands out for active commuting: 16.1% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.7 times the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Jackson County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Jackson 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Bicycle
• Public Transportation
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Other
2009	67.4%	20.7%	9.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2010	71.7%	17.1%	9.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2011	73.7%	12.7%	11.1%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2012	74.0%	13.2%	10.2%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.3%
2013	73.2%	9.8%	14.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	2.2%
2014	69.8%	15.2%	12.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%
2015	67.4%	16.2%	12.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	3.4%
2016	65.4%	18.0%	12.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	3.5%
2017	65.3%	16.5%	14.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	3.6%
2018	65.8%	17.3%	13.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	3.1%
2019	70.7%	13.7%	13.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.4%
2020	59.9%	20.5%	15.1%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.5%
2021	62.1%	17.9%	16.1%	3.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	57.9%	23.5%	15.2%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	62.7%	25.2%	8.0%	3.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	53.3%	29.7%	14.0%	2.1%	0.9%	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 2012 at 74.0%. Overall it fell from 67.4% in 2009 to 53.3% in 2024, down 14.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Jackson County: its share of workers rose from 20.7% in 2009 to 29.7% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 16.1% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 14.0%.

Commute Start Times in Jackson County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Jackson County?

The bars show when commuters in Jackson 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 Jackson County4.8% Colorado4.6%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Jackson County3.9% Colorado3.6%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Jackson County0.0% Colorado5.0%	0.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Jackson County14.0% Colorado8.5%	14.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Jackson County13.2% Colorado10.2%	13.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Jackson County11.0% Colorado15.3%	11.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Jackson County17.7% Colorado12.8%	17.7%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Jackson County7.3% Colorado11.8%	7.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Jackson County8.2% Colorado5.4%	8.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Jackson County8.9% Colorado6.9%	8.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Jackson County0.2% Colorado3.2%	0.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Jackson County3.5% Colorado1.5%	3.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Jackson County6.0% Colorado6.0%	6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Jackson County1.3% Colorado5.2%	1.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Jackson County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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 Jackson 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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• Colorado
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Jackson County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Jackson County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:27 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Jackson County now leave 3 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 Jackson County has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Jackson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jackson County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.8 min	22.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	29.7%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	14.0%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Jackson County is 8.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 14.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau