Lander County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Lander County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lander 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 102 hours, about 4.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% less time on the road than the Nevada average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 10.2 minutes.

Lander County holds about 0.2% of Nevada's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lander County would save about 41 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,268 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)
Lander County	12.3 min	24.5 min	102 hrs/yr	$3,170	194
Nevada	22.4 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,797	1,402
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.

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On average, it takes 12.3 minutes to get to work in Lander County. That's 45% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Nevada

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 0.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lander County

• Car: 84.3%
• Public Transportation: 8.5% unusually high
• Walked: 5.9% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.9% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Lander County: 3.5 times more than the Nevada average (0.9% vs 0.3%).

Walking is unusually common in Lander County: 3.8 times more than the Nevada average (5.9% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually common in Lander County: 3.8 times more than the Nevada average (8.5% vs 2.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Lander County, versus 0.2% in Nevada.

Working from home is unusually rare in Lander County: 26.9 times less than the Nevada average (0.4% vs 11.9%).

Biking is essentially absent in Lander County, versus 0.3% in Nevada.

Lander County stands out for active commuting: 5.9% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.3 times the Nevada average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Lander County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lander 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Public Transportation	Walked	Motorcycle	Worked at Home	Taxi	Bicycle	Other
2009	82.8%	3.3%	3.8%	0.0%	6.1%	0.0%	0.8%	3.0%
2010	78.6%	7.7%	5.0%	0.0%	4.8%	0.0%	0.7%	3.1%
2011	78.8%	8.2%	5.3%	0.0%	4.3%	0.0%	0.0%	3.3%
2012	76.9%	11.2%	4.2%	0.0%	6.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.5%
2013	75.8%	13.4%	3.6%	0.0%	6.2%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2014	76.0%	15.7%	3.3%	0.0%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	2.0%
2015	76.1%	13.1%	6.0%	0.0%	3.1%	0.0%	0.6%	1.0%
2016	75.8%	13.6%	4.9%	0.0%	4.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.9%
2017	80.3%	11.2%	5.1%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.9%
2018	81.1%	10.0%	5.3%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.9%
2019	78.6%	12.4%	5.4%	0.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%
2020	84.7%	10.5%	0.9%	0.0%	3.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	82.4%	15.6%	0.6%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	80.4%	15.8%	2.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	78.3%	15.6%	4.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2024	84.3%	8.5%	5.9%	0.9%	0.4%	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 2020 at 84.7% and lowest in 2013 at 75.8%. Overall it rose from 82.8% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Public transit gained the most ground in Lander County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 8.5% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 6.1% to 0.4% of workers (down 5.7 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 15.8% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 8.5%.

Commute Start Times in Lander County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lander County?

The bars show when commuters in Lander 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 Nevada for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Lander County17.3% Nevada7.9%	17.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Lander County7.8% Nevada4.9%	7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Lander County13.7% Nevada5.1%	13.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Lander County5.6% Nevada9.1%	5.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Lander County8.4% Nevada8.3%	8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Lander County7.9% Nevada11.7%	7.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Lander County8.4% Nevada9.2%	8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Lander County7.8% Nevada9.6%	7.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Lander County1.8% Nevada4.3%	1.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Lander County4.1% Nevada6.8%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Lander County0.7% Nevada3.3%	0.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Lander County1.6% Nevada2.1%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Lander County6.1% Nevada8.8%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Lander County8.6% Nevada8.9%	8.6%

Lander County Nevada Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Lander County is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.9% across Nevada. Early starts are more common than in Nevada: 38.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nevada: 32.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 38.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Lander 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 Lander 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 Lander County next to Nevada 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Lander County	Nevada	United States
2009	6:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	6:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:30 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:28 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	6:50 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	6:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	5:53 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2019	5:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	5:52 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	5:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:15 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:50 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lander County were on the road by 6:50 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (6:55 AM). That goes against the trend across Nevada, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Lander County now leave 48 minutes 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 Lander County has moved 62 minutes later.

How does Lander County's commute time compare?

Metric	Lander County	Nevada	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.3 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	05:30 AM – 05:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	0.4%	11.9%	15.0%
Walked	5.9%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.5%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lander County is 12.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Nevada.

8.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.2% in Nevada. 5.9% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Nevada.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau