Hobbs Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hobbs, 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 Hobbs: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hobbs spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 106 hours, about 4.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 33% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.2 minutes.

Hobbs holds about 1.2% of New Mexico's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hobbs would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,310 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)
Hobbs	12.7 min	25.4 min	106 hrs/yr	$3,275	1,293
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.

Hobbs Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.7 minutes to get to work in Hobbs. That's 43% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 2.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hobbs

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Hobbs: 4.7 times less than the New Mexico average (2.6% vs 12.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Hobbs: 4.6 times less than the New Mexico average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hobbs, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hobbs 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Other	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	95.3%	1.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	95.5%	1.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	94.2%	1.7%	2.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	95.0%	1.5%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	1.7%	2.8%	0.6%	0.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.6%	1.9%	2.5%	0.6%	0.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	93.7%	1.6%	2.2%	0.9%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.8%	1.1%	2.1%	0.8%	0.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	95.5%	0.8%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	96.5%	0.8%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	97.0%	0.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	97.0%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	96.2%	1.3%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	95.8%	1.5%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	95.1%	1.5%	2.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	93.6%	2.8%	2.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 97.0% and lowest in 2013 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 95.3% in 2009 to 93.6% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Walking gained the most ground in Hobbs: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 2.8% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Hobbs

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hobbs?

The bars show when commuters in Hobbs 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		7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		12.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hobbs is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.5% across New Mexico. Early starts are more common than in New Mexico: 26.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Mexico: 44.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 7 commuters (15.0%) 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 Hobbs, 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 Hobbs 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 Hobbs 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	Hobbs	New Mexico	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:13 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:09 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:14 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:13 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:08 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:09 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hobbs were on the road by 7:11 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Mexico, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hobbs now leave 27 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Hobbs's commute time compare?

Metric	Hobbs	New Mexico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.7 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.6%	12.2%	15.0%
Walked	2.8%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hobbs is 12.7 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 2.8% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hobbs, New Mexico.

Is commuting expensive in Hobbs, New Mexico?

Commuters here spend an estimated 106 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,275 at a typical national wage. That's 33% less than the typical New Mexico commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Hobbs, New Mexico?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hobbs, 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.