Northglenn Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Northglenn, Colorado: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

Updated 22 September 2026

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Commute Time Burden in Northglenn: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Northglenn spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 229 hours, about 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Northglenn holds about 0.6% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Northglenn would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,843 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)
Northglenn	27.5 min	55.0 min	229 hrs/yr	$7,108	3,623
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.

Northglenn Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.5 minutes to get to work in Northglenn. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Northglenn

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Northglenn: 11665.9 times less than the Colorado average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Northglenn: 3.9 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Northglenn: just 1.1%, 3.1 times below the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Northglenn, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Northglenn 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.5%	3.9%	4.7%	0.1%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	87.9%	4.0%	4.4%	0.3%	3.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	88.4%	3.2%	4.2%	0.5%	3.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	89.6%	3.1%	3.9%	0.4%	2.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	89.6%	3.6%	3.4%	0.4%	2.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	90.1%	3.8%	3.3%	0.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.2%	3.7%	3.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.2%	4.5%	3.5%	0.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.5%	4.3%	4.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	3.8%	4.3%	0.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.0%	3.8%	4.2%	0.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	88.7%	5.2%	3.3%	0.9%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	87.4%	7.2%	3.1%	0.6%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	86.6%	8.9%	2.5%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	83.6%	11.9%	2.4%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	81.8%	14.0%	1.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 91.2%. Overall it fell from 88.5% in 2009 to 81.8% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Northglenn: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 14.0% in 2024, up 10.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.7% to 1.9% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.2% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Northglenn

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Northglenn?

The bars show when commuters in Northglenn 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		6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Northglenn is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 13.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 21.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Colorado: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Northglenn, 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 Northglenn 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 Northglenn 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	Northglenn	Colorado	United States
2009	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:22 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:10 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Northglenn were on the road by 7:10 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:21 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Northglenn now leave 28 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Northglenn's commute time compare?

Metric	Northglenn	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.5 min	22.0 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	14.0%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.9%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Northglenn is 27.5 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

1.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Colorado. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Northglenn, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Northglenn, CO compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Northglenn, CO	36,757	27.5 min #1/2	14.0% #2/2	7:10 AM #1/2
Thornton, CO	134,665	28.6 min	14.6%	7:21 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Northglenn, Colorado.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Northglenn, Colorado?

Commuters here spend an estimated 229 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,108 at a typical national wage. That's 25% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Northglenn, Colorado?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Northglenn, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.