Moffat County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Moffat County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Moffat 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 101 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 9.9 minutes.

Moffat 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 Moffat County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,256 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)
Moffat County	12.2 min	24.3 min	101 hrs/yr	$3,139	122
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 Moffat County. That's 46% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 78% of counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Moffat County

• Car: 90.7% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 4.3% unusually low
• Walked: 3.7%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Other: 0.2%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 25% more common in Moffat County than the Colorado average (90.7% vs 72.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Moffat County: 4.7 times less than the Colorado average (0.4% vs 1.6%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Moffat County: 4.9 times less than the Colorado average (4.3% vs 21.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Moffat County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Moffat 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
• Motorcycle
• Other
• Taxi

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Other	Taxi
2009	88.5%	4.5%	4.4%	0.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.6%	3.9%	3.8%	0.4%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.3%	5.0%	3.7%	1.1%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	86.9%	5.4%	4.8%	0.8%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	88.5%	4.1%	4.6%	0.6%	1.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	90.2%	3.4%	4.1%	0.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	87.3%	4.3%	6.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	88.0%	4.3%	5.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	90.2%	3.6%	4.1%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	91.1%	3.1%	4.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	89.8%	4.4%	3.9%	0.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	94.1%	3.2%	1.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	93.0%	3.7%	1.7%	0.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	92.3%	4.3%	2.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	90.8%	4.3%	2.8%	0.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	90.7%	4.3%	3.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 94.1% and lowest in 2012 at 86.9%. Overall it rose from 88.5% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.4% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 3.7%.

Commute Start Times in Moffat County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Moffat County?

The bars show when commuters in Moffat 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 Moffat County5.1% Colorado4.6%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Moffat County4.2% Colorado3.6%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Moffat County6.9% Colorado5.0%	6.9%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Moffat County11.3% Colorado8.5%	11.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Moffat County10.4% Colorado10.2%	10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Moffat County16.5% Colorado15.3%	16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Moffat County13.6% Colorado12.8%	13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Moffat County8.0% Colorado11.8%	8.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Moffat County2.1% Colorado5.4%	2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Moffat County5.6% Colorado6.9%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Moffat County5.4% Colorado3.2%	5.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Moffat County0.6% Colorado1.5%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Moffat County6.8% Colorado6.0%	6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Moffat County3.5% Colorado5.2%	3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Moffat County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 16.2% 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 (21.8%) 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 Moffat 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 Moffat 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 Moffat 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.

• Moffat County
• Colorado
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Moffat County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Moffat County were on the road by 7:22 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:11 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Moffat County now leave 16 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 Moffat County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Moffat County's commute time compare?

Metric	Moffat County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.3%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.6%	3.2%

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

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau