Los Alamos County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Los Alamos County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Los Alamos County spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 114 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting.

That is 27% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.7 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Los Alamos County holds about 0.9% of New Mexico's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Los Alamos County would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,416 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)
Los Alamos County	13.7 min	27.4 min	114 hrs/yr	$3,539	1,164
New Mexico	18.7 min	37.5 min	156 hrs/yr	$4,840	619
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 13.7 minutes to get to work in Los Alamos County. That's 39% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 14.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 79.8%
• Worked at Home: 14.2%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Public Transportation: 1.7%
• Bicycle: 1.1%
• Motorcycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Motorcycle commuting is unusually common in Los Alamos County: 6.7 times more than the New Mexico average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Los Alamos County: 4.4 times less than the New Mexico average (0.0% vs 0.0%).

How does Los Alamos County's commute time compare?

Metric	Los Alamos County	New Mexico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.7 min	18.7 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.2%	11.0%	13.4%
Walked	2.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Los Alamos County is 13.7 minutes, shorter than the 18.7 minutes in New Mexico.

1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.7% in New Mexico. 2.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau