Las Animas County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Las Animas County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Las Animas 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 102 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 9.8 minutes.

Las Animas County holds about 0.2% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Las Animas County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,263 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)
Las Animas County	12.2 min	24.4 min	102 hrs/yr	$3,157	98
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 12.2 minutes to get to work in Las Animas County. That's 45% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Las Animas County

• Car: 80.6%
• Worked at Home: 11.5%
• Walked: 4.5%
• Other: 3.0%
• Bicycle: 0.3% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Las Animas County: 10.7 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Las Animas County: 3.3 times less than the Colorado average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Las Animas County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Las Animas 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.0%	5.0%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.3%	5.5%	3.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	89.1%	5.6%	4.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.9%	4.2%	6.6%	0.9%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	87.8%	3.8%	6.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	88.3%	3.7%	5.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	86.4%	4.8%	6.5%	1.3%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.8%	6.0%	6.2%	1.2%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	85.2%	7.6%	5.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	85.0%	8.1%	5.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	84.5%	8.6%	5.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	84.7%	8.0%	4.4%	1.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	83.5%	8.4%	5.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	82.2%	9.6%	5.5%	2.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	83.5%	10.5%	2.9%	2.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	80.6%	11.5%	4.5%	3.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.0% in 2009 to 80.6% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Las Animas County: its share of workers rose from 5.0% in 2009 to 11.5% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points.

Walking peaked at 6.6% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 4.5%.

Commute Start Times in Las Animas County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Las Animas County?

The bars show when commuters in Las Animas 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 Las Animas County4.5% Colorado4.6%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Las Animas County1.5% Colorado3.6%	1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Las Animas County4.7% Colorado5.0%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Las Animas County8.5% Colorado8.5%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Las Animas County8.4% Colorado10.2%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Las Animas County13.5% Colorado15.3%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Las Animas County14.9% Colorado12.8%	14.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Las Animas County10.1% Colorado11.8%	10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Las Animas County8.0% Colorado5.4%	8.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Las Animas County9.3% Colorado6.9%	9.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Las Animas County2.0% Colorado3.2%	2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Las Animas County0.6% Colorado1.5%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Las Animas County7.0% Colorado6.0%	7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Las Animas County7.1% Colorado5.2%	7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Las Animas County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 10.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Colorado: 46.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.0%) 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 Las Animas 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 Las Animas 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 Las Animas 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	Las Animas County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Las Animas County were on the road by 7:48 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Las Animas County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Las Animas County has moved 11 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Las Animas County in the whole series.

How does Las Animas County's commute time compare?

Metric	Las Animas County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.2 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.5%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.6%	3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 4.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau