Weld County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Weld County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Weld County spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Weld County holds about 6.0% of Colorado's population but accounts for roughly 6.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Weld County would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,424 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)
Weld County	23.5 min	46.9 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,060	1,593
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

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On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Weld County. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 84% of 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 14.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Weld County

• Car: 82.2%
• Worked at Home: 14.3%
• Walked: 1.7%
• Other: 1.1%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Weld County: 7.1 times less than the Colorado average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Weld County: 3.5 times less than the Colorado average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Weld County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Weld 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	90.2%	5.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	90.3%	5.2%	2.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	89.9%	5.0%	2.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%
2012	89.8%	5.3%	2.1%	0.9%	0.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%
2013	90.1%	5.3%	2.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	5.1%	2.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	90.1%	5.2%	2.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%
2016	90.6%	5.3%	2.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	90.5%	5.5%	2.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	90.3%	5.7%	2.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	90.0%	6.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	88.8%	7.5%	2.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	87.1%	9.5%	1.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	85.4%	11.3%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	83.5%	13.2%	1.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	82.2%	14.3%	1.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 90.6%. Overall it fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 82.2% in 2024, down 8.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Weld County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2024, up 8.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Weld County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Weld County?

The bars show when commuters in Weld 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 Weld County7.3% Colorado4.6%	7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Weld County5.7% Colorado3.6%	5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Weld County6.5% Colorado5.0%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Weld County10.7% Colorado8.5%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Weld County11.0% Colorado10.2%	11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Weld County14.5% Colorado15.3%	14.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Weld County11.8% Colorado12.8%	11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Weld County8.9% Colorado11.8%	8.9%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Weld County3.2% Colorado5.4%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Weld County5.1% Colorado6.9%	5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Weld County2.6% Colorado3.2%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Weld County1.2% Colorado1.5%	1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Weld County5.7% Colorado6.0%	5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Weld County5.7% Colorado5.2%	5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Weld County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 19.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Colorado: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Weld 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 Weld 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 Weld 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	Weld County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:22 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	7:21 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Weld County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Weld County now leave 20 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 Weld County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Weld County's commute time compare?

Metric	Weld County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.5 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	14.3%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Weld County is 23.5 minutes, longer than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.2% 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