Commuting in Phillips 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 Phillips County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Phillips County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 96 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 10.6 minutes.
Phillips County holds about 0.1% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Phillips County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,185 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)
Phillips County
11.5 min
22.9 min
96 hrs/yr
$2,962
182
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.
On average, it takes
11.5
minutes to get to work in
Phillips County.
That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
Faster than 83% of counties in Colorado
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.9% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Phillips County
Car:
84.8%
Worked at Home:
10.9%
Walked:
2.8%
Other:
1.5%
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Public Transportation:
< 0.1%unusually low
Taxi:
< 0.1%unusually low
Bicycle:
< 0.1%unusually low
Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 0.1% in Colorado.
Public transit is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 1.6% in Colorado.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 0.1% in Colorado.
Biking is essentially absent in Phillips County, versus 0.9% in Colorado.
Commute Mode Trends in Phillips County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Phillips 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
Walked
Other
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
80.8%
7.7%
8.4%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.7%
2010
84.6%
8.2%
4.9%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.8%
2011
85.8%
8.5%
3.0%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2.0%
2012
84.7%
8.7%
3.9%
0.1%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.6%
2013
86.7%
4.9%
5.4%
0.1%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
1.2%
2014
84.4%
4.6%
7.9%
0.1%
2.0%
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
2015
86.5%
3.0%
8.1%
0.2%
1.2%
0.0%
0.0%
1.0%
2016
85.1%
3.6%
9.4%
0.0%
1.1%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2017
87.9%
3.0%
7.7%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.9%
2018
87.2%
3.9%
7.6%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.8%
2019
89.1%
4.6%
5.9%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
89.4%
5.2%
5.0%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
89.2%
8.2%
2.2%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
89.0%
8.8%
2.2%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
87.0%
11.2%
1.8%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
84.8%
10.9%
2.8%
1.5%
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 peaked in 2020 at 89.4%. Overall it rose from 80.8% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, up 4.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Phillips County: its share of workers rose from 7.7% in 2009 to 10.9% in 2024, up 3.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.4% to 2.8% of workers (down 5.6 percentage points).
Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.
Public transit peaked at 2.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.
Commute Start Times in Phillips County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Phillips County?
The bars show when commuters in Phillips 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 AMPhillips County3.4%Colorado4.6%
3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMPhillips County1.4%Colorado3.6%
1.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMPhillips County4.0%Colorado5.0%
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMPhillips County9.8%Colorado8.5%
9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMPhillips County15.6%Colorado10.2%
15.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMPhillips County10.8%Colorado15.3%
10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMPhillips County23.1%Colorado12.8%
23.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMPhillips County10.7%Colorado11.8%
10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMPhillips County4.8%Colorado5.4%
4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMPhillips County2.9%Colorado6.9%
2.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMPhillips County3.9%Colorado3.2%
3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMPhillips County0.6%Colorado1.5%
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMPhillips County5.6%Colorado6.0%
5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMPhillips County3.3%Colorado5.2%
3.3%
Phillips CountyColoradoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Phillips County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 23.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 8.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 60.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.4%) 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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 Phillips 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
Phillips County
Colorado
United States
2009
7:24 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:20 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:18 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:25 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:25 AM
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:32 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:31 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:27 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:23 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:22 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:20 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:17 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:34 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Phillips County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Phillips County now leave 1 minute 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 Phillips County has moved 15 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Phillips County in the whole series.
How does Phillips County's commute time compare?
Metric
Phillips County
Colorado
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
11.5 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
06:30 AM – 06:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
10.9%
21.0%
15.0%
Walked
2.8%
2.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
1.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Phillips County is 11.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.
Phillips County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Phillips County, CO is the 2nd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,496 residents against a local median of 2,821. Where Phillips County, CO breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 64% above the local median of 6.6% at 10.9%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 11.5 min against a local median of 9.0 min, 28% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 28% above the local median it puts Phillips County, CO at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 12.4% on work from home, so Phillips County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Phillips County, CO has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Phillips County, Colorado.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Phillips County, Colorado?
Commuters here spend an estimated 96 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,962 at a typical national wage. That's 48% less than the typical Colorado commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Phillips County, Colorado?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Phillips County, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Phillips County, Colorado?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Colorado, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
How do commute times compare across 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).