Teller County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Teller 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 Teller County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Teller County spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 261 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 9.3 minutes.

Teller County holds about 0.4% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Teller County would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,234 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)
Teller County	31.3 min	62.6 min	261 hrs/yr	$8,085	503
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

Hinsdale County (6.6 min)
Prowers County (7.6 min)
Cheyenne County (7.7 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Colorado

Park County (42.5 min)
Elbert County (41.5 min)
Teller County (31.3 min)

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Teller County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 31.3 minutes to get to work in Teller County. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Colorado

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Teller County

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Teller County: 14.8 times less than the Colorado average (0.1% vs 1.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Teller County: 5.9 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Teller County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Teller 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	83.8%	11.9%	2.1%	1.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	84.9%	10.5%	2.4%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	85.3%	9.6%	3.0%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	86.8%	9.1%	2.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	85.9%	9.6%	2.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.7%	7.6%	2.8%	1.0%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	87.5%	7.8%	2.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	87.9%	7.4%	2.3%	1.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.0%	7.3%	2.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	86.9%	9.2%	1.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	87.0%	9.3%	1.8%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	84.7%	11.9%	2.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.8%	14.7%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.4%	16.5%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	80.7%	15.8%	1.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	76.7%	20.5%	1.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	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 2017 at 88.0%. Overall it fell from 83.8% in 2009 to 76.7% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Teller County: its share of workers rose from 11.9% in 2009 to 20.5% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Teller County

Dawn PatrolThe 3rd-highest share of pre-6 AM departures among Colorado's 64 counties: 22.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Teller County?

The bars show when commuters in Teller 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		7.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Teller County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 22.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Colorado's: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.3%) 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 Teller 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 Teller 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 Teller 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	Teller County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:25 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:25 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Teller County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:25 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Teller County now leave 23 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 Teller County has moved 17 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Teller County in the whole series.

How does Teller County's commute time compare?

Metric	Teller County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.3 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.5%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Teller County is 31.3 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Teller County, CO Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Teller County, CO is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 24,825 residents against a local median of 377,140. Teller County, CO's one-way commute, at 31.3 min, runs 34% above the 23.4 min typical of the counties around it. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 20.5% against a local median of 24.4%, 16% below it. The counties themselves spread 25.8 min on one-way commute, so Teller County, CO sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Teller County, CO has the 5th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Teller County, CO	24,825	31.3 min #5/6	20.5% #4/6	7:15 AM #2/6
Fremont County, CO	49,630	16.8 min	13.7%	7:26 AM
Douglas County, CO	377,140	23.6 min	30.5%	7:37 AM
Park County, CO	17,906	42.5 min	24.4%	6:58 AM
El Paso County, CO	742,974	21.1 min	16.8%	7:29 AM
Jefferson County, CO	579,346	23.4 min	25.4%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Teller County, Colorado.

Is commuting expensive in Teller County, Colorado?

Commuters here spend an estimated 261 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,085 at a typical national wage. That's 42% more than the typical Colorado commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Teller County, Colorado. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Teller County, Colorado?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% 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).