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Commuting in Catron County, New Mexico: 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 Catron County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Catron County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Catron County holds about 0.2% of New Mexico's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Catron County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,840 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)
Catron County 17.8 min 35.6 min 148 hrs/yr $4,600 45
New Mexico 18.8 min 37.7 min 157 hrs/yr $4,866 619
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: New Mexico Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in New Mexico
  1. De Baca County (7.9 min)
  2. Quay County (8.0 min)
  3. Union County (8.3 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in New Mexico
  1. Torrance County (36.5 min)
  2. Mora County (30.1 min)
  3. Valencia County (30.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Catron County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.8 minutes to get to work in Catron County. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Catron County

  • Car: 57.2% unusually low
  • Worked at Home: 22.7%
  • Other: 12.4%
  • Walked: 7.7% unusually high
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Catron County, versus 0.1% in New Mexico.

Driving is 31% less common in Catron County than the New Mexico average (57.2% vs 83.5%).

Walking is unusually common in Catron County: 4.0 times more than the New Mexico average (7.7% vs 1.9%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Catron County, versus 0.6% in New Mexico.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Catron County, versus 0.1% in New Mexico.

Biking is essentially absent in Catron County, versus 0.5% in New Mexico.

Catron County stands out for active commuting: 7.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.2 times the New Mexico average of 2.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Catron County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Catron 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 Other Walked Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 82.9% 8.2% 1.1% 7.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 86.0% 7.1% 1.3% 5.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 83.6% 10.7% 0.6% 5.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 82.9% 11.8% 0.8% 4.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 80.7% 13.2% 0.9% 5.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 72.6% 16.1% 0.8% 10.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 76.2% 14.7% 1.1% 8.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 73.5% 14.3% 2.6% 9.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 62.7% 15.9% 3.7% 17.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2018 59.7% 11.9% 10.9% 17.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2019 74.4% 9.2% 6.8% 9.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 77.6% 4.3% 7.1% 11.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 74.1% 10.6% 4.7% 10.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 65.6% 20.0% 6.2% 8.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 69.7% 21.1% 0.7% 8.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 57.2% 22.7% 12.4% 7.7% 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 peaked in 2010 at 86.0%. Overall it fell from 82.9% in 2009 to 57.2% in 2024, down 25.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Catron County: its share of workers rose from 8.2% in 2009 to 22.7% in 2024, up 14.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 17.6% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 7.7%.

Commute Start Times in Catron County

  • Rush-Hour DodgersThe lowest share of rush-hour departures among New Mexico's 33 counties: only 35.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.
  • Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among New Mexico's 33 counties: the typical start is 22 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Catron County?

The bars show when commuters in Catron 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 New Mexico for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
0.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
35.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
0.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
3.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
15.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
0.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
18.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
0.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
0.2%

Catron County New Mexico Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Catron County is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 35.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.7% across New Mexico. Early starts are less common than in New Mexico: 6.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Mexico: 35.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Catron 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 Catron 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 Catron County next to New Mexico 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 Catron County New Mexico United States
2009 7:37 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:42 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:47 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:48 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:49 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:45 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:22 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:52 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:23 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:40 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:46 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:42 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:30 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:37 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:15 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Catron County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Mexico, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Catron 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 Catron County has moved 25 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Catron County in the whole series.

How does Catron County's commute time compare?

Metric Catron County New Mexico US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.8 min 18.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 22.7% 12.2% 15.0%
Walked 7.7% 1.9% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Catron County is 17.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 7.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Catron County, NM Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Catron County, NM is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 3,743 residents against a local median of 16,198. Catron County, NM's work from home, at 22.7%, runs 87% above the 12.1% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.8 min against a local median of 13.9 min, 28% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 28% above the local median it puts Catron County, NM at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 17.1% on work from home, so Catron County, NM sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Catron County, NM has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Catron County, NM 3,743 17.8 min #6/6 22.7% #1/6 7:15 AM #2/6
Cibola County, NM 26,844 16.8 min 13.4% 7:49 AM
Greenlee County, AZ 9,411 13.9 min 0.9% 5:51 AM
Grant County, NM 27,774 15.4 min 12.1% 7:50 AM
Sierra County, NM 11,501 11.8 min 8.2% 7:42 AM
Socorro County, NM 16,198 11.5 min 18.0% 7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Catron County, New Mexico.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Catron County, New Mexico?

Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,600 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical New Mexico commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Catron County, New Mexico?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Catron County, New Mexico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Catron County, New Mexico?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in New Mexico, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Catron County, New Mexico a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 22.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Catron County would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,840 at the same national wage assumption used above.

How do commute times compare across counties in New Mexico?

Among counties in New Mexico, the shortest average commutes are in De Baca County (7.9 min), Quay County (8.0 min), Union County (8.3 min). The longest are in Torrance County (36.5 min), Mora County (30.1 min), Valencia County (30.1 min).