Yuma County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yuma County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yuma County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 75 hours, about 3.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 59% less time on the road than the Colorado average of 22.0 minutes each way, a difference of 13.1 minutes.

Yuma 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 Yuma County would save about 30 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $929 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)
Yuma County	9.0 min	18.0 min	75 hrs/yr	$2,322	180
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 9.0 minutes to get to work in Yuma County. That's 60% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 87% 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 walking. About 4.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yuma County

• Car: 89.5% unusually high
• Walked: 5.8%
• Worked at Home: 4.0% unusually low
• Other: 0.7%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 23% more common in Yuma County than the Colorado average (89.5% vs 72.7%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Yuma County, versus 1.6% in Colorado.

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Yuma County: 5.3 times less than the Colorado average (4.0% vs 21.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Yuma County: 751955643.9 times less than the Colorado average (0.0% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Yuma County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yuma 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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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	86.0%	4.4%	7.3%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	86.3%	4.0%	8.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	82.5%	5.7%	9.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	81.6%	7.2%	9.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2013	80.0%	8.2%	10.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	79.5%	11.2%	8.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2015	80.6%	10.6%	7.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2016	80.6%	9.8%	9.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	82.6%	6.5%	10.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	84.5%	5.1%	10.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	84.5%	3.2%	11.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	84.9%	4.3%	10.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	90.1%	4.3%	5.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	86.8%	7.3%	5.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.3%	6.4%	4.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.5%	5.8%	4.0%	0.7%	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 was highest in 2021 at 90.1% and lowest in 2014 at 79.5%. Overall it rose from 86.0% in 2009 to 89.5% in 2024, up 3.5 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Yuma County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 7.3% to 4.0% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Walking overtook working from home to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 11.2% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 5.8%.

Commute Start Times in Yuma County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yuma County?

The bars show when commuters in Yuma 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 Yuma County4.4% Colorado4.6%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yuma County8.0% Colorado3.6%	8.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yuma County6.5% Colorado5.0%	6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yuma County5.3% Colorado8.5%	5.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yuma County12.0% Colorado10.2%	12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yuma County26.3% Colorado15.3%	26.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yuma County13.0% Colorado12.8%	13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yuma County11.6% Colorado11.8%	11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yuma County2.0% Colorado5.4%	2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yuma County4.7% Colorado6.9%	4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yuma County0.1% Colorado3.2%	0.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yuma County0.3% Colorado1.5%	0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yuma County1.7% Colorado6.0%	1.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yuma County4.2% Colorado5.2%	4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yuma County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 26.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.3% across Colorado. Early starts are more common than in Colorado: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Colorado: 62.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.1% there. About 1 in 9 commuters (10.9%) 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 Yuma 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 Yuma 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 Yuma 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	Yuma County	Colorado	United States
2009	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 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	7:20 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	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yuma County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:19 AM). Across Colorado, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Yuma County now leave 22 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 Yuma County has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Yuma County in the whole series.

How does Yuma County's commute time compare?

Metric	Yuma County	Colorado	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	9.0 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	4.0%	21.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.8%	2.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yuma County is 9.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.0 minutes in Colorado.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Colorado. 5.8% commute by walking, higher than the 2.5% in Colorado.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau