McKinley County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in McKinley County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in McKinley County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 1% more time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.7 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

McKinley County holds about 3.3% of New Mexico's population and accounts for roughly 3.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in McKinley County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,948 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)
McKinley County	18.9 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,871	235
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

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On average, it takes 18.9 minutes to get to work in McKinley County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 72% of counties in New Mexico

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 9.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 86.5%
• Worked at Home: 9.6%
• Walked: 2.1%
• Public Transportation: 1.1%
• Other: 0.6%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in McKinley County, versus 0.0% in New Mexico.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in McKinley County: 24.2 times less than the New Mexico average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

How does McKinley County's commute time compare?

Metric	McKinley County	New Mexico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.9 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	9.6%	11.0%	13.4%
Walked	2.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.1%	0.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in McKinley County is about the same as in New Mexico.

1.1% 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