Kiowa County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Kiowa County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kiowa 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 13.1 minutes.

Kiowa 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 Kiowa County would save about 30 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $921 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)
Kiowa County	8.9 min	17.8 min	74 hrs/yr	$2,304	119
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 8.9 minutes to get to work in Kiowa County. That's 60% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 5.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kiowa County

• Car: 88.5% unusually high
• Walked: 5.9%
• Worked at Home: 5.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Other: 0.1%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 22% more common in Kiowa County than the Colorado average (88.5% vs 72.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Kiowa County: 11.1 times less than the Colorado average (0.1% vs 1.6%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Kiowa County: 4.0 times less than the Colorado average (5.3% vs 21.0%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Kiowa County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kiowa 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	69.9%	10.5%	15.8%	1.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2010	75.7%	12.3%	10.4%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	75.7%	11.9%	11.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	80.4%	10.2%	8.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	82.6%	4.4%	12.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2014	81.4%	9.0%	8.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2015	81.3%	7.0%	8.8%	0.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2016	82.0%	7.8%	6.4%	0.4%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
2017	80.6%	6.8%	7.5%	0.5%	4.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	82.4%	9.0%	3.3%	0.5%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	82.5%	8.1%	3.8%	0.0%	5.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	86.6%	5.9%	3.8%	0.0%	3.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.3%	6.7%	3.1%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.6%	7.1%	2.4%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.3%	6.5%	2.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	88.5%	5.9%	5.3%	0.1%	0.1%	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 2023 at 90.3%. Overall it rose from 69.9% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, up 18.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 15.8% to 5.3% of workers (down 10.5 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 12.3% in 2010 and has since fallen back to 5.9%.

Commute Start Times in Kiowa County

• 🚦 Rush-Hour RegularsThe highest share of rush-hour departures among Colorado's 64 counties: 68.7% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kiowa County?

The bars show when commuters in Kiowa 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 Kiowa County2.8% Colorado4.6%	2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Kiowa County6.2% Colorado3.6%	6.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Kiowa County5.6% Colorado5.0%	5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Kiowa County6.2% Colorado8.5%	6.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Kiowa County12.1% Colorado10.2%	12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Kiowa County18.0% Colorado15.3%	18.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Kiowa County19.4% Colorado12.8%	19.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Kiowa County19.2% Colorado11.8%	19.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Kiowa County0.5% Colorado5.4%	0.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Kiowa County7.0% Colorado6.9%	7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Kiowa County1.1% Colorado3.2%	1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Kiowa County0.2% Colorado1.5%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Kiowa County0.9% Colorado6.0%	0.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Kiowa County0.9% Colorado5.2%	0.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kiowa County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 14.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 68.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 10 commuters (10.1%) 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 Kiowa 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 Kiowa 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 Kiowa 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	Kiowa County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kiowa County were on the road by 7:29 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Kiowa County now leave 9 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 Kiowa County has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Kiowa County's commute time compare?

Metric	Kiowa County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.3%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kiowa County is 8.9 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 5.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau