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Commuting in Cibola 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 Cibola County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cibola County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Cibola County holds about 1.3% of New Mexico's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cibola County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,739 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)
Cibola County 16.8 min 33.7 min 140 hrs/yr $4,348 152
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

Cibola County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.8 minutes to get to work in Cibola County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cibola County

  • Car: 81.0%
  • Worked at Home: 13.4%
  • Walked: 2.0%
  • Taxi: 1.9% unusually high
  • Public Transportation: 1.0%
  • Other: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Cibola County: 24.1 times more than the New Mexico average (1.9% vs 0.1%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Cibola County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cibola 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 Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle Other Bicycle
2009 92.0% 4.0% 3.0% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1%
2010 91.2% 4.6% 3.7% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
2011 90.8% 5.9% 3.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 90.8% 7.2% 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2013 90.5% 7.1% 1.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0%
2014 90.3% 6.3% 1.7% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 1.2% 0.1%
2015 89.4% 6.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 1.9% 0.1%
2016 86.1% 6.8% 2.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 4.3% 0.2%
2017 83.0% 7.5% 3.1% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 5.8% 0.2%
2018 84.3% 6.8% 3.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 5.1% 0.2%
2019 84.6% 7.1% 2.9% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 5.0% 0.1%
2020 84.7% 7.2% 2.5% 0.0% 0.8% 0.1% 4.6% 0.1%
2021 83.2% 9.9% 1.9% 0.1% 1.0% 0.3% 3.5% 0.1%
2022 86.8% 8.4% 1.8% 0.1% 1.0% 0.4% 1.6% 0.0%
2023 84.9% 9.5% 2.6% 0.1% 0.7% 0.3% 2.0% 0.0%
2024 81.0% 13.4% 2.0% 1.9% 1.0% 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.0% in 2009 to 81.0% in 2024, down 11.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cibola County: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 9.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 2.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Cibola County

  • Hitting SnoozeThe 2nd-biggest shift to later mornings among New Mexico's 33 counties: the typical start is 14 minutes later than in 2009.
  • Sleeping InThe 3rd-highest share of 9 AM-or-later starts among New Mexico's 33 counties: 28.5% of commuters leave at 9 AM or later.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cibola County?

The bars show when commuters in Cibola 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
5.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
4.8%
7:30-7:59 AM
20.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
12.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cibola County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across New Mexico. Early starts are more common than in New Mexico: 17.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Mexico: 44.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.5%) 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 Cibola 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 Cibola 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 Cibola 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 Cibola County New Mexico United States
2009 7:35 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:33 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:30 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:34 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:37 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:41 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:44 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:39 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:41 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:41 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:39 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:46 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:49 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:47 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:48 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:49 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cibola County were on the road by 7:49 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across New Mexico, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Cibola County now leave 11 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 Cibola County has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Cibola County's commute time compare?

Metric Cibola County New Mexico US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.8 min 18.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 13.4% 12.2% 15.0%
Walked 2.0% 1.9% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.0% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Cibola County is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.

1.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 2.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cibola County, NM Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cibola County, NM is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 26,844 residents against a local median of 78,461. Where Cibola County, NM breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 19% below the local median of 20.9 min at 16.8 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 12.2 min on one-way commute, so Cibola County, NM sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cibola County, NM has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Cibola County, NM 26,844 16.8 min #1/6 13.4% #4/6 7:49 AM #6/6
McKinley County, NM 70,433 20.4 min 8.9% 7:32 AM
Catron County, NM 3,743 17.8 min 22.7% 7:15 AM
Valencia County, NM 78,461 30.1 min 11.1% 7:17 AM
Bernalillo County, NM 672,163 20.9 min 14.9% 7:43 AM
Sandoval County, NM 153,584 30.0 min 16.8% 7:19 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cibola County, New Mexico.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Cibola County, New Mexico?

Commuters here spend an estimated 140 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,348 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical New Mexico commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Cibola County, New Mexico?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Cibola County, New Mexico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.

Which counties in New Mexico have the fastest and slowest commutes?

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).