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

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Commute Time Burden in Park County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Park County spend about 85 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 355 hours, about 14.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 93% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 20.5 minutes.

Park County holds about 0.3% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Park County would save about 142 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,396 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)
Park County 42.5 min 85.1 min 355 hrs/yr $10,991 329
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

Fastest commutes among counties in Colorado
  1. Hinsdale County (6.6 min)
  2. Prowers County (7.6 min)
  3. Cheyenne County (7.7 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Colorado
  1. Park County (42.5 min)
  2. Elbert County (41.5 min)
  3. Teller County (31.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Park County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 42.5 minutes to get to work in Park County. That's 90% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slowest county in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Park County

  • Car: 72.2%
  • Worked at Home: 24.4%
  • Other: 3.0%
  • Walked: 0.2% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Park County: 12.9 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 2.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Park County: 9.5 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Park County: just 0.2%, 17.5 times below the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Park County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Park 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.

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 Other Public Transportation Walked Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 86.0% 8.9% 0.9% 1.7% 2.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 85.6% 9.3% 0.6% 2.1% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 88.3% 8.1% 0.6% 1.2% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 88.4% 8.8% 0.4% 1.0% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2013 86.3% 10.9% 0.5% 1.2% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 84.5% 12.0% 0.4% 1.7% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 86.0% 11.1% 0.5% 1.3% 1.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 82.6% 13.4% 1.7% 1.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 82.1% 13.6% 1.6% 1.5% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 83.5% 11.8% 1.7% 1.2% 1.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 85.0% 10.5% 2.4% 0.8% 1.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2020 80.8% 15.4% 1.9% 0.5% 1.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2021 82.4% 15.3% 0.1% 0.7% 1.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2022 77.9% 20.0% 0.3% 0.3% 1.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 75.7% 22.2% 1.3% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 72.2% 24.4% 3.0% 0.2% 0.2% 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 2012 at 88.4%. Overall it fell from 86.0% in 2009 to 72.2% in 2024, down 13.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Park County: its share of workers rose from 8.9% in 2009 to 24.4% in 2024, up 15.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.2% of workers (down 2.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Park County

  • Early BirdThe earliest start among Colorado's 64 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:58 AM.
  • Dawn PatrolThe 2nd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Colorado's 64 counties: 22.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Park County?

The bars show when commuters in Park 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
7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
9.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
15.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
17.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
1.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM
3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
1.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Park County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 22.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.1%) 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 Park 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 Park 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 Park 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Park County Colorado United States
2009 7:09 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:08 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:06 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:08 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:11 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:09 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:12 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:17 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:14 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:21 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:18 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:14 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:11 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:10 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:05 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:58 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Park County were on the road by 6:58 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:09 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Park County now leave 40 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 Park County has moved 19 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Park County in the whole series.

How does Park County's commute time compare?

Metric Park County Colorado US Average
Avg. Commute Time 42.5 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 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 24.4% 21.0% 15.0%
Walked 0.2% 2.5% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.2% 1.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Park County is 42.5 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Park County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Park County, CO is typical in size for this group, 17,906 residents against a local median of 20,178, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Park County, CO apart most is one-way commute: 42.5 min, 106% above the local median of 20.7 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 19.8 min on one-way commute, so Park County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Park County, CO has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Park County, CO 17,906 42.5 min #6/6 24.4% #2/6 6:58 AM #1/6
Clear Creek County, CO 9,259 30.4 min 24.2% 7:56 AM
Teller County, CO 24,825 31.3 min 20.5% 7:15 AM
Chaffee County, CO 20,178 11.5 min 24.5% 7:44 AM
Lake County, CO 7,380 20.7 min 8.5% 7:30 AM
Summit County, CO 31,017 17.4 min 23.7% 7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Park County, Colorado.

Is commuting expensive in Park County, Colorado?

Commuters here spend an estimated 355 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $10,991 at a typical national wage. That's 93% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Park County, Colorado?

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

Do people use public transit in Park County, Colorado?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Colorado, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Colorado?

Among counties in Colorado, the shortest average commutes are in Hinsdale County (6.6 min), Prowers County (7.6 min), Cheyenne County (7.7 min). The longest are in Park County (42.5 min), Elbert County (41.5 min), Teller County (31.3 min).