Commuting in Grant 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 Grant County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Grant County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 128 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.
Grant 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 Grant County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,587 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)
Grant County
15.4 min
30.7 min
128 hrs/yr
$3,968
205
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.
On average, it takes
15.4
minutes to get to work in
Grant County.
That's 31% 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 12.1% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Grant County
Car:
83.5%
Worked at Home:
12.1%
Walked:
3.8%
Other:
0.5%
Bicycle:
0.2%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 Grant County, versus 0.1% in New Mexico.
Public transit is essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.6% in New Mexico.
Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Grant County, versus 0.1% in New Mexico.
Biking is unusually rare in Grant County: 3.0 times less than the New Mexico average (0.2% vs 0.5%).
Commute Mode Trends in Grant County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Grant 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
Other
Bicycle
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
2009
85.5%
8.7%
3.1%
0.8%
0.8%
0.0%
0.0%
1.1%
2010
85.8%
8.4%
3.2%
0.9%
0.7%
0.2%
0.0%
0.7%
2011
86.3%
8.0%
3.7%
0.5%
0.5%
0.4%
0.0%
0.6%
2012
87.2%
7.6%
4.2%
0.0%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.4%
2013
88.9%
6.4%
4.1%
0.1%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2014
90.2%
6.2%
2.8%
0.2%
0.3%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2015
90.2%
5.8%
3.1%
0.2%
0.3%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2016
90.3%
5.6%
3.0%
0.3%
0.6%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2017
89.8%
5.1%
3.4%
0.5%
0.9%
0.4%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
89.5%
5.6%
2.8%
0.5%
0.9%
0.7%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
90.5%
5.5%
2.0%
0.3%
0.7%
1.0%
0.0%
0.0%
2020
88.4%
7.7%
2.3%
0.4%
0.7%
0.5%
0.0%
0.0%
2021
84.9%
10.1%
3.6%
0.3%
0.4%
0.6%
0.0%
0.0%
2022
84.8%
13.0%
1.9%
0.1%
0.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.0%
2023
84.6%
13.0%
2.0%
0.3%
0.0%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2024
83.5%
12.1%
3.8%
0.5%
0.2%
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 2019 at 90.5%. Overall it fell from 85.5% in 2009 to 83.5% in 2024, down 2.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Grant County: its share of workers rose from 8.7% in 2009 to 12.1% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).
Public transit peaked at 1.0% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.
Commute Start Times in Grant County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grant County?
The bars show when commuters in Grant 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
12:00-4:59 AMGrant County4.3%New Mexico4.6%
4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMGrant County3.9%New Mexico3.5%
3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMGrant County4.5%New Mexico5.1%
4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMGrant County6.7%New Mexico8.7%
6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMGrant County7.8%New Mexico10.1%
7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMGrant County9.6%New Mexico15.5%
9.6%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMGrant County19.8%New Mexico14.8%
19.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMGrant County20.3%New Mexico11.1%
20.3%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMGrant County3.6%New Mexico4.5%
3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMGrant County5.6%New Mexico6.0%
5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMGrant County4.2%New Mexico3.1%
4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMGrant County0.8%New Mexico1.3%
0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMGrant County4.2%New Mexico6.3%
4.2%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMGrant County4.6%New Mexico5.5%
4.6%
Grant CountyNew MexicoSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Grant County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New Mexico. Early starts are about as common as in New Mexico: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New Mexico: 57.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.5%) 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 Grant 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 Grant 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 Grant 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
Grant County
New Mexico
United States
2009
7:43 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:41 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:40 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:37 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:40 AM
7:36 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:40 AM
7:37 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:40 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:42 AM
7:37 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:43 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:42 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:43 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:48 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:46 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:49 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:51 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:50 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Grant County were on the road by 7:50 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:43 AM). That goes against the trend across New Mexico, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Grant County now leave 12 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 Grant County has moved 7 minutes later.
How does Grant County's commute time compare?
Metric
Grant County
New Mexico
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
15.4 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
12.1%
12.2%
15.0%
Walked
3.8%
1.9%
2.4%
Public Transit
< 0.1%
0.6%
3.2%
The average commute time in Grant County is 15.4 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.
0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 3.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in New Mexico.
Grant County, NM Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Grant County, NM is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 27,774 residents against a local median of 9,411. The measure that sets Grant County, NM apart most is work from home: 12.1%, 95% above the local median of 6.2%.
One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 15.4 min against a local median of 12.7 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 Grant County, NM at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 21.8% on work from home, so Grant County, NM sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Grant County, NM has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Grant County, New Mexico.
How much does the average commute cost workers in Grant County, New Mexico?
Commuters here spend an estimated 128 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,968 at a typical national wage. That's 18% less than the typical New Mexico commuter spends.
When is rush hour worst in Grant County, New Mexico?
Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Grant County, 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.
Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Grant 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.
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).