Parker Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Parker, 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 Parker: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Parker spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 200 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Parker holds about 0.9% of Colorado's population and accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Parker would save about 80 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,480 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)
Parker	24.0 min	48.0 min	200 hrs/yr	$6,199	3,013
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.

Parker Commute Map

On average, it takes 24.0 minutes to get to work in Parker. That's 7% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 26.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Parker

Biking is unusually rare in Parker: 75.0 times less than the Colorado average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Parker, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Parker 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.4%	8.2%	1.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2010	87.9%	7.6%	1.3%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2011	88.0%	7.5%	1.0%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2012	88.1%	7.6%	0.5%	2.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2013	89.0%	7.0%	0.3%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2014	88.2%	7.7%	0.4%	2.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	87.4%	8.2%	0.5%	2.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	87.7%	8.3%	0.5%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	87.6%	8.7%	0.6%	1.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	86.8%	9.4%	1.2%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	86.0%	10.5%	1.1%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	82.9%	13.7%	1.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	78.1%	18.7%	1.3%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	75.1%	21.8%	1.3%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	73.7%	23.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	71.3%	26.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.4%	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 2013 at 89.0%. Overall it fell from 87.4% in 2009 to 71.3% in 2024, down 16.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Parker: its share of workers rose from 8.2% in 2009 to 26.2% in 2024, up 18.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Parker

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Parker?

The bars show when commuters in Parker 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		5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Parker is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are about as common as in Colorado: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 55.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Parker, 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 Parker 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 Parker 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	Parker	Colorado	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Parker were on the road by 7:31 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Parker now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Parker's commute time compare?

Metric	Parker	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	24.0 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	26.2%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Parker is 24.0 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Parker, Colorado.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 200 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,199 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

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

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