Mineral County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mineral County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mineral County spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 88 hours, about 3.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 53% less time on the road than the Nevada average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 11.9 minutes.

Mineral County holds about 0.1% of Nevada's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mineral County would save about 35 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,087 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)
Mineral County	10.5 min	21.0 min	88 hrs/yr	$2,718	78
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 10.5 minutes to get to work in Mineral County. That's 53% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 3 fastest counties in Nevada

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 2.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mineral County

• Car: 84.6%
• Walked: 11.6% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 2.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.5%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Mineral County, versus 0.3% in Nevada.

Walking is unusually common in Mineral County: 7.6 times more than the Nevada average (11.6% vs 1.5%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Mineral County: 6.2 times less than the Nevada average (0.4% vs 2.2%).

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Mineral County: 4.2 times less than the Nevada average (2.9% vs 11.9%).

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

Mineral County stands out for active commuting: 11.6% of workers walk or bike to work, 6.5 times the Nevada average of 1.8%.

Commute Mode Trends in Mineral County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mineral 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.4%	3.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.4%	3.0%	2.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	87.2%	2.9%	3.1%	3.9%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.5%	5.7%	2.1%	3.6%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.3%	3.2%	3.9%	4.8%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	82.0%	7.6%	5.3%	3.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	79.4%	10.4%	6.3%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	80.9%	10.3%	8.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2017	82.1%	8.5%	8.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2018	82.5%	11.1%	5.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.9%
2019	88.0%	7.0%	3.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.4%
2020	87.3%	10.9%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.9%	12.8%	2.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.8%	8.4%	3.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.1%	6.2%	3.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.6%	11.6%	2.9%	0.5%	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 bottomed out in 2015 at 79.4%. Overall it fell from 94.4% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 9.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Mineral County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 11.6% in 2024, up 7.7 percentage points.

Working from home peaked at 8.3% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 2.9%.

Commute Start Times in Mineral County

• ⏰ Earlier AlarmsThe biggest shift to earlier mornings among Nevada's 17 counties: the typical start is 53 minutes earlier than in 2009.
• 🐦 Early BirdThe 2nd-earliest start among Nevada's 17 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 6:34 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mineral County?

The bars show when commuters in Mineral 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 Mineral County16.4% Nevada7.9%	16.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mineral County9.8% Nevada4.9%	9.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mineral County11.0% Nevada5.1%	11.0%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mineral County10.2% Nevada9.1%	10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mineral County17.3% Nevada8.3%	17.3%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mineral County6.3% Nevada11.7%	6.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mineral County8.3% Nevada9.2%	8.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mineral County4.4% Nevada9.6%	4.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mineral County2.8% Nevada4.3%	2.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mineral County1.9% Nevada6.8%	1.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mineral County2.6% Nevada3.3%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mineral County0.0% Nevada2.1%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mineral County4.5% Nevada8.8%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mineral County4.2% Nevada8.9%	4.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mineral County is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 17.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.3% across Nevada. Early starts are more common than in Nevada: 37.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Nevada: 36.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 38.8% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (13.3%) 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 Mineral 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 Mineral 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 Mineral 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	Mineral County	Nevada	United States
2009	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	6:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	6:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2013	6:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2014	6:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:02 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:15 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:12 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:21 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:04 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2022	6:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2023	6:39 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	6:34 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mineral County were on the road by 6:34 AM, 53 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:27 AM). That goes against the trend across Nevada, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Mineral County now leave 63 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 Mineral County has moved 47 minutes earlier.

How does Mineral County's commute time compare?

Metric	Mineral County	Nevada	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.5 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	2.9%	11.9%	15.0%
Walked	11.6%	1.5%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mineral County is 10.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Nevada.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Nevada. 11.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Nevada.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau