Ken Caryl Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ken Caryl, 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 Ken Caryl: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ken Caryl spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 218 hours, about 9.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Ken Caryl holds about 0.6% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ken Caryl would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,705 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)
Ken Caryl	26.2 min	52.3 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,762	2,731
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.

Ken Caryl Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.2 minutes to get to work in Ken Caryl. That's 17% 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 26.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ken Caryl

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Ken Caryl, versus 0.1% in Colorado.

Commute Mode Trends in Ken Caryl, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ken Caryl 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	89.0%	6.7%	0.4%	2.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	87.3%	8.3%	0.4%	2.1%	0.8%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	87.7%	7.9%	0.6%	1.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	88.8%	7.2%	0.5%	1.4%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	89.2%	7.3%	0.6%	1.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	88.9%	7.3%	0.5%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	89.2%	6.3%	0.5%	2.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	88.0%	7.3%	0.3%	2.2%	1.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	87.1%	7.7%	0.4%	2.7%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	86.2%	8.0%	0.2%	3.0%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	86.2%	8.8%	0.2%	2.4%	1.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	81.5%	13.5%	1.0%	1.7%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	79.6%	16.4%	0.8%	1.4%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	75.8%	20.1%	1.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	72.6%	23.6%	1.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.9%	26.8%	1.2%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.4%	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 89.2%. Overall it fell from 89.0% in 2009 to 68.9% in 2024, down 20.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ken Caryl: its share of workers rose from 6.7% in 2009 to 26.8% in 2024, up 20.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.0% to 0.9% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Ken Caryl

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ken Caryl?

The bars show when commuters in Ken Caryl 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		6.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ken Caryl is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 48.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Ken Caryl, 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 Ken Caryl 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 Ken Caryl 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	Ken Caryl	Colorado	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:25 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:21 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ken Caryl were on the road by 7:28 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Ken Caryl now leave 10 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 Ken Caryl has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Ken Caryl's commute time compare?

Metric	Ken Caryl	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	26.8%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ken Caryl is 26.2 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ken Caryl, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Ken Caryl, CO is typical in size for this group, 33,219 residents against a local median of 33,171, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Ken Caryl, CO sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 13% above the local median at 26.8% against 23.7%. Ken Caryl, CO has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ken Caryl, CO	33,219	26.2 min #4/4	26.8% #1/4	7:28 AM #2/4
Columbine, CO	24,950	23.9 min	22.4%	7:41 AM
Dakota Ridge, CO	33,171	23.7 min	23.7%	7:28 AM
Littleton, CO	42,306	23.3 min	23.7%	7:51 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ken Caryl, Colorado.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Ken Caryl, Colorado?

Commuters here spend an estimated 218 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,762 at a typical national wage. That's 19% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Ken Caryl, Colorado?

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