Prowers County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Prowers County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Prowers County spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 63 hours, about 2.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 66% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 14.4 minutes.

Prowers 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 Prowers County would save about 25 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $786 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)
Prowers County	7.6 min	15.2 min	63 hrs/yr	$1,964	111
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.

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On average, it takes 7.6 minutes to get to work in Prowers County. That's 66% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest 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 6.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Prowers County

• Car: 89.7% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.2% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 1.7%
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.9%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 23% more common in Prowers County than the Colorado average (89.7% vs 72.7%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Prowers County: 3.4 times less than the Colorado average (6.2% vs 21.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Prowers County: 8.0 times less than the Colorado average (0.1% vs 0.9%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Prowers County: just 1.1%, 3.2 times below the Colorado average of 3.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Prowers County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Prowers 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	87.5%	6.4%	0.0%	1.6%	3.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	88.3%	6.0%	0.0%	1.3%	3.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	88.3%	5.9%	0.1%	1.1%	3.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	84.3%	7.2%	0.0%	2.1%	5.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	86.3%	6.2%	0.0%	1.6%	4.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	85.4%	6.6%	0.0%	2.0%	4.3%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	86.8%	6.7%	0.0%	1.5%	3.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	84.3%	7.7%	0.0%	2.0%	4.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%
2017	89.4%	7.0%	0.0%	1.2%	1.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2018	89.8%	6.5%	0.0%	1.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	91.0%	5.2%	0.0%	1.9%	1.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	90.5%	5.5%	0.0%	1.7%	1.4%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%
2021	92.7%	5.1%	0.1%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.4%	6.0%	0.1%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.5%	6.2%	1.6%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.7%	6.2%	1.7%	1.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 92.7% and lowest in 2012 at 84.3%. Overall it rose from 87.5% in 2009 to 89.7% in 2024, up 2.2 percentage points.

Public transit gained the most ground in Prowers County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 1.7% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 0.9% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Working from home peaked at 7.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 6.2%.

Commute Start Times in Prowers County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Prowers County?

The bars show when commuters in Prowers 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 Prowers County4.3% Colorado4.6%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Prowers County3.9% Colorado3.6%	3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Prowers County4.1% Colorado5.0%	4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Prowers County7.4% Colorado8.5%	7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Prowers County7.7% Colorado10.2%	7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Prowers County20.9% Colorado15.3%	20.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Prowers County16.9% Colorado12.8%	16.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Prowers County15.9% Colorado11.8%	15.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Prowers County2.3% Colorado5.4%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Prowers County4.3% Colorado6.9%	4.3%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Prowers County3.6% Colorado3.2%	3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Prowers County1.5% Colorado1.5%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Prowers County2.3% Colorado6.0%	2.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Prowers County4.8% Colorado5.2%	4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Prowers County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 20.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are about as common as in Colorado: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 61.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (16.6%) 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 Prowers 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 Prowers 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 Prowers 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Prowers County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Prowers County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Prowers County now leave 5 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 Prowers County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Prowers County's commute time compare?

Metric	Prowers County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.6 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	6.2%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Prowers County is 7.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

1.7% 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