Mineral County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mineral County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mineral County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 72 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 61% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 13.4 minutes.

Mineral 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 Mineral County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $894 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)
Mineral County	8.7 min	17.3 min	72 hrs/yr	$2,236	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.

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On average, it takes 8.7 minutes to get to work in Mineral County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 92% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:30 AM – 08:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 7.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mineral County

• Car: 78.0%
• Walked: 14.3% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

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

Walking is unusually common in Mineral County: 5.7 times more than the Colorado average (14.3% vs 2.5%).

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

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

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

Mineral County stands out for active commuting: 14.3% of workers walk or bike to work, 4.2 times the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Mineral County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mineral 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	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other
2009	78.8%	12.3%	8.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2010	75.2%	19.8%	4.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	75.7%	9.2%	11.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	1.4%
2012	70.4%	13.3%	14.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	75.1%	12.8%	11.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	70.6%	13.1%	13.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%
2015	67.1%	11.3%	18.8%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%	0.0%
2016	66.5%	15.5%	15.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.0%
2017	60.9%	24.4%	11.9%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	1.7%	0.0%
2018	60.0%	25.7%	11.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%	1.0%
2019	69.9%	19.5%	9.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2020	74.5%	18.8%	6.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	73.0%	18.4%	7.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2022	79.2%	11.9%	8.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	81.9%	8.6%	9.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	78.0%	14.3%	7.6%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2023 at 81.9% and lowest in 2018 at 60.0%. Overall it fell from 78.8% in 2009 to 78.0% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Mineral County: its share of workers rose from 12.3% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2024, up 2.0 percentage points.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 25.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 14.3%.

Commute Start Times in Mineral County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mineral County?

The bars show when commuters in Mineral 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 Mineral County1.7% Colorado4.6%	1.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mineral County0.0% Colorado3.6%	0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mineral County0.0% Colorado5.0%	0.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mineral County1.0% Colorado8.5%	1.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mineral County8.9% Colorado10.2%	8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mineral County15.5% Colorado15.3%	15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mineral County20.8% Colorado12.8%	20.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mineral County9.6% Colorado11.8%	9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mineral County19.5% Colorado5.4%	19.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mineral County17.8% Colorado6.9%	17.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mineral County3.0% Colorado3.2%	3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mineral County0.0% Colorado1.5%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mineral County2.3% Colorado6.0%	2.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mineral County0.0% Colorado5.2%	0.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mineral County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 1.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 54.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Mineral 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 Mineral 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 Mineral 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	Mineral County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:10 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:08 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:59 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:57 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:59 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:07 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mineral County were on the road by 8:07 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (7:49 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Mineral County now leave 29 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 Mineral County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Mineral County's commute time compare?

Metric	Mineral County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.7 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	08:30 AM – 08:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.6%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	14.3%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mineral County is 8.7 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 14.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau