Roosevelt County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Roosevelt County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roosevelt County spend about 25 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 104 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% less time on the road than the New Mexico average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.3 minutes.

Roosevelt County holds about 0.9% of New Mexico's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roosevelt County would save about 42 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,292 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)
Roosevelt County	12.5 min	25.0 min	104 hrs/yr	$3,230	501
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.

Commute Time Map: New Mexico Counties

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On average, it takes 12.5 minutes to get to work in Roosevelt County. That's 44% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 75% of counties in New Mexico

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 4.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roosevelt County

• Car: 91.4%
• Worked at Home: 4.6%
• Walked: 3.7%
• Other: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Roosevelt County, versus 0.1% in New Mexico.

Public transit is unusually rare in Roosevelt County: 23.9 times less than the New Mexico average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

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

Biking is essentially absent in Roosevelt County, versus 0.5% in New Mexico.

Commute Mode Trends in Roosevelt County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roosevelt 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.

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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.1%	5.3%	3.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	88.1%	5.7%	3.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	87.5%	4.3%	5.4%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2012	87.7%	4.1%	6.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	88.0%	3.4%	6.5%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2014	89.1%	2.7%	6.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2015	90.1%	2.2%	5.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2016	89.8%	2.2%	5.0%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2017	88.6%	2.3%	5.5%	2.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	89.5%	1.8%	4.7%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2019	88.0%	2.2%	5.2%	3.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	89.1%	2.5%	5.1%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	90.5%	2.8%	4.4%	1.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2022	92.0%	3.8%	3.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	90.5%	4.2%	4.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	91.4%	4.6%	3.7%	0.2%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2022 at 92.0% and lowest in 2011 at 87.5%. Overall it rose from 89.1% in 2009 to 91.4% in 2024, up 2.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 5.3% to 4.6% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 6.6% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 3.7%.

Commute Start Times in Roosevelt County

• 🧘 Rush-Hour DodgersThe 3rd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among New Mexico's 33 counties: only 40.8% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roosevelt County?

The bars show when commuters in Roosevelt 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 AM Roosevelt County12.9% New Mexico4.6%	12.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Roosevelt County2.9% New Mexico3.5%	2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Roosevelt County4.7% New Mexico5.1%	4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Roosevelt County9.2% New Mexico8.7%	9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Roosevelt County8.7% New Mexico10.1%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Roosevelt County8.2% New Mexico15.5%	8.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Roosevelt County15.3% New Mexico14.8%	15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Roosevelt County8.5% New Mexico11.1%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Roosevelt County3.4% New Mexico4.5%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Roosevelt County10.6% New Mexico6.0%	10.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Roosevelt County2.2% New Mexico3.1%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Roosevelt County3.2% New Mexico1.3%	3.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Roosevelt County5.2% New Mexico6.3%	5.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Roosevelt County5.1% New Mexico5.5%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roosevelt County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.8% across New Mexico. Early starts are more common than in New Mexico: 20.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Mexico: 40.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.5% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.2%) 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 Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt 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.

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• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Roosevelt County	New Mexico	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roosevelt County were on the road by 7:37 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Mexico, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Roosevelt County now leave 1 minute earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Roosevelt County has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Roosevelt County's commute time compare?

Metric	Roosevelt County	New Mexico	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.5 min	18.8 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	4.6%	12.2%	15.0%
Walked	3.7%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roosevelt County is 12.5 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in New Mexico.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.6% in New Mexico. 3.7% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in New Mexico.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau