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Commuting in Farmington, 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 Farmington: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Farmington spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Farmington holds about 1.8% of New Mexico's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Farmington would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,578 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)
Farmington 15.3 min 30.5 min 127 hrs/yr $3,946 1,757
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.

Farmington Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.3 minutes to get to work in Farmington. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Farmington

  • Car: 90.4%
  • Worked at Home: 6.3%
  • Walked: 2.5%
  • Other: 0.5%
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Farmington: 11.1 times less than the New Mexico average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Farmington, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Farmington 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 Other Bicycle Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi
2009 93.1% 3.0% 2.7% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2%
2010 94.1% 2.4% 2.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 94.1% 2.7% 2.1% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 94.0% 2.6% 2.1% 0.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.1% 0.2%
2013 93.7% 2.9% 1.8% 0.6% 0.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2%
2014 93.7% 2.5% 2.0% 0.5% 0.7% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%
2015 93.8% 2.5% 2.2% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2%
2016 94.8% 2.0% 1.8% 0.5% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2%
2017 95.5% 1.7% 1.3% 0.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2018 94.5% 2.7% 1.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2019 94.8% 2.8% 1.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 93.6% 3.3% 2.1% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2021 92.3% 4.2% 2.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0%
2022 91.5% 4.7% 2.7% 0.5% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
2023 91.8% 5.1% 2.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 90.4% 6.3% 2.5% 0.5% 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 2017 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 2.7 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Farmington: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 6.3% in 2024, up 3.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Farmington

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Farmington?

The bars show when commuters in Farmington 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
3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
15.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.9%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Farmington is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New Mexico. Early starts are about as common as in New Mexico: 12.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush looks much like New Mexico's: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.5%) 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 Farmington, 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 Farmington 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 Farmington 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 Farmington New Mexico United States
2009 7:32 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:31 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:31 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:37 AM 7:37 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:38 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:36 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:36 AM 7:36 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:35 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:32 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:26 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:31 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:25 AM 7:35 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:34 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:38 AM 7:35 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Farmington were on the road by 7:38 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:32 AM). That goes against the trend across New Mexico, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Farmington now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Farmington has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Farmington in the whole series.

How does Farmington's commute time compare?

Metric Farmington New Mexico US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.3 min 18.8 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 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 6.3% 12.2% 15.0%
Walked 2.5% 1.9% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 0.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Farmington is 15.3 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 2.5% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Farmington, New Mexico.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 127 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,946 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical New Mexico commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Farmington, New Mexico. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Farmington, 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.