Eddy County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Eddy 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 Eddy County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Eddy County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 126 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.7 minutes.

Eddy County holds about 2.9% of New Mexico's population but accounts for roughly 2.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Eddy County would save about 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,564 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)
Eddy County	15.1 min	30.3 min	126 hrs/yr	$3,911	503
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

De Baca County (7.9 min)
Quay County (8.0 min)
Union County (8.3 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in New Mexico

Torrance County (36.5 min)
Mora County (30.1 min)
Valencia County (30.1 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Eddy County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.1 minutes to get to work in Eddy County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Eddy County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Eddy County: 3.3 times less than the New Mexico average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Eddy County: 4.0 times less than the New Mexico average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Eddy County: 3.1 times less than the New Mexico average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Eddy County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Eddy 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.7%	4.8%	1.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	90.6%	4.6%	0.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.8%
2011	91.2%	5.0%	0.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	1.0%
2012	92.3%	4.5%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	92.8%	3.2%	0.5%	1.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	1.0%
2014	93.6%	2.5%	0.5%	2.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%
2015	94.2%	2.7%	0.4%	1.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	94.4%	2.0%	0.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	95.3%	1.8%	0.4%	1.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	95.7%	1.7%	0.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	96.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	94.5%	3.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	93.9%	4.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	91.9%	5.6%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.2%	6.2%	0.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	90.5%	6.5%	1.6%	1.0%	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 2019 at 96.1%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.7% in 2009 and 90.5% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Eddy County: its share of workers rose from 4.8% in 2009 to 6.5% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

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

Commute Start Times in Eddy County

Early BirdThe earliest start among New Mexico's 33 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:06 AM.
Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among New Mexico's 33 counties: 26.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM.
Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among New Mexico's 33 counties: the typical start is 21 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Eddy County?

The bars show when commuters in Eddy 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		10.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		9.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		2.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Eddy County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across New Mexico. Early starts are more common than in New Mexico: 26.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Mexico: 46.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (14.9%) 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 Eddy 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 Eddy 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 Eddy 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	Eddy County	New Mexico	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Eddy County were on the road by 7:06 AM, 21 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Mexico, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Eddy County now leave 32 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 Eddy County has moved 5 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Eddy County in the whole series.

How does Eddy County's commute time compare?

Metric	Eddy County	New Mexico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.1 min	18.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.5%	12.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Eddy County is 15.1 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 1.9% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Eddy County, NM Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Eddy County, NM is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 61,104 residents against a local median of 12,664. Eddy County, NM's work from home, at 6.5%, runs 117% above the 3.0% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 15.1 min against a local median of 12.5 min, 21% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% above the local median it puts Eddy County, NM at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.4% on work from home, so Eddy County, NM sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Eddy County, NM has the highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Eddy County, NM	61,104	15.1 min #5/6	6.5% #1/6	7:06 AM #1/6
Chaves County, NM	64,216	15.5 min	5.4%	7:34 AM
Lea County, NM	73,733	13.5 min	3.7%	7:10 AM
Loving County, TX	33	3.3 min	0.0%	8:43 AM
Culberson County, TX	2,195	7.5 min	1.8%	7:45 AM
Reeves County, TX	12,664	12.5 min	3.0%	7:29 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Eddy County, New Mexico.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 126 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,911 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical New Mexico commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Eddy County, New Mexico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

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

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.6% in New Mexico, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

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).