Commuting in Routt 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 Routt County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Routt County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 128 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 6.7 minutes.
Routt County holds about 0.4% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Routt County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,581 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)
Routt County
15.3 min
30.6 min
128 hrs/yr
$3,954
308
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
15.3
minutes to get to work in
Routt County.
That's 32% shorter 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 21.3% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Routt County
Car:
72.1%
Worked at Home:
21.3%
Walked:
2.3%
Public Transportation:
1.7%
Bicycle:
1.2%
Other:
0.9%
Motorcycle:
0.3%
Taxi:
0.2%
Commute Mode Trends in Routt County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Routt 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
Public Transportation
Bicycle
Other
Motorcycle
Taxi
2009
79.4%
10.0%
3.6%
2.3%
4.1%
0.5%
0.1%
0.0%
2010
79.8%
10.0%
3.5%
2.1%
4.0%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
2011
78.8%
10.0%
4.3%
3.2%
3.2%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2012
77.1%
11.4%
3.4%
4.0%
2.9%
1.0%
0.1%
0.0%
2013
78.2%
10.0%
4.0%
3.5%
3.1%
1.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2014
79.1%
9.5%
4.3%
3.0%
3.2%
0.9%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
80.1%
8.2%
4.9%
2.5%
3.5%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
79.4%
9.9%
4.4%
2.1%
3.4%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
78.2%
9.2%
4.6%
3.2%
4.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
78.4%
9.7%
4.0%
3.0%
4.5%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
76.9%
10.6%
5.2%
2.5%
4.4%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
75.9%
12.5%
3.8%
2.9%
4.2%
0.2%
0.6%
0.0%
2021
77.3%
12.7%
3.7%
2.0%
3.8%
0.3%
0.2%
0.0%
2022
75.4%
16.2%
4.1%
0.8%
3.0%
0.4%
0.2%
0.0%
2023
74.1%
18.5%
3.0%
1.2%
2.2%
0.7%
0.3%
0.0%
2024
72.1%
21.3%
2.3%
1.7%
1.2%
0.9%
0.3%
0.2%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 80.1%. Overall it fell from 79.4% in 2009 to 72.1% in 2024, down 7.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 3 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Routt County: its share of workers rose from 10.0% in 2009 to 21.3% in 2024, up 11.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Biking lost the most ground, falling from 4.1% to 1.2% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).
Walking overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.
Walking peaked at 5.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.
Commute Start Times in Routt County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Routt County?
The bars show when commuters in Routt 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 AMRoutt County2.2%Colorado4.6%
2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMRoutt County1.6%Colorado3.6%
1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMRoutt County1.6%Colorado5.0%
1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMRoutt County5.4%Colorado8.5%
5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMRoutt County9.8%Colorado10.2%
9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMRoutt County19.5%Colorado15.3%
19.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMRoutt County18.9%Colorado12.8%
18.9%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMRoutt County16.3%Colorado11.8%
16.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMRoutt County6.1%Colorado5.4%
6.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMRoutt County9.1%Colorado6.9%
9.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMRoutt County3.2%Colorado3.2%
3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMRoutt County1.1%Colorado1.5%
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMRoutt County3.5%Colorado6.0%
3.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMRoutt County1.9%Colorado5.2%
1.9%
Routt CountyColoradoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Routt County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are less common than in Colorado: 5.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 64.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Routt 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 Routt 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 Routt 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
Routt County
Colorado
United States
2009
7:45 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:47 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:47 AM
7:38 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:53 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:52 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:53 AM
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:55 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:54 AM
7:34 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:54 AM
7:33 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:55 AM
7:33 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:54 AM
7:34 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:53 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:49 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:46 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:46 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Routt County were on the road by 7:46 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Routt County now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Routt County has moved 8 minutes earlier.
How does Routt County's commute time compare?
Metric
Routt County
Colorado
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
15.3 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
21.3%
21.0%
15.0%
Walked
2.3%
2.5%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.7%
1.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Routt County is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.
1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Colorado. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.
Routt County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Routt County, CO is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 25,084 residents against a local median of 15,895. Routt County, CO sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these counties turns on things this data does not capture.
The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 12% below the local median at 15.3 min against 17.4 min. Routt County, CO has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Routt County, Colorado.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Routt County, Colorado?
Commuters here spend an estimated 128 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,954 at a typical national wage. That's 31% less than the typical Colorado commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Routt County, Colorado?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Routt County, 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.
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).