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Commuting in Pahrump, Nevada: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Pahrump: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pahrump spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Nevada average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Pahrump holds about 1.4% of Nevada's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pahrump would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,803 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)
Pahrump 17.5 min 34.9 min 145 hrs/yr $4,508 715
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.

Pahrump Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Pahrump. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pahrump

  • Car: 82.4%
  • Worked at Home: 12.3%
  • Other: 3.0%
  • Walked: 1.6%
  • Taxi: 0.6%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Pahrump: 26.6 times less than the Nevada average (0.1% vs 2.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Pahrump, versus 0.3% in Nevada.

Commute Mode Trends in Pahrump, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pahrump 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.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Other Walked Taxi Public Transportation Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 92.2% 4.6% 1.4% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2%
2010 92.3% 4.6% 1.5% 0.7% 0.0% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0%
2011 93.4% 4.5% 0.8% 0.8% 0.0% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 93.7% 4.2% 0.8% 1.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0%
2013 91.5% 5.5% 1.4% 1.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
2014 90.4% 5.5% 1.0% 1.9% 0.0% 0.1% 1.1% 0.0%
2015 90.3% 4.6% 1.1% 2.2% 0.0% 0.3% 1.4% 0.0%
2016 88.0% 6.0% 1.6% 3.0% 0.0% 0.2% 1.2% 0.0%
2017 87.8% 6.5% 1.6% 2.8% 0.0% 0.2% 1.0% 0.0%
2018 91.0% 4.5% 1.7% 1.7% 0.0% 0.3% 0.9% 0.0%
2019 90.0% 5.3% 2.5% 1.3% 0.0% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0%
2020 89.1% 6.3% 1.9% 2.3% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 87.2% 7.2% 3.8% 1.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.5% 8.9% 2.9% 0.8% 0.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 82.8% 11.2% 3.8% 1.3% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 82.4% 12.3% 3.0% 1.6% 0.6% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 93.7%. Overall it fell from 92.2% in 2009 to 82.4% in 2024, down 9.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pahrump: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 7.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook public transit to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.0% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 1.6%.

Commute Start Times in Pahrump

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pahrump?

The bars show when commuters in Pahrump 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
10.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
9.3%
5:30-5:59 AM
11.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
9.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM
12.4%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
2.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pahrump is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across Nevada. Early starts are more common than in Nevada: 31.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Nevada's: 36.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 38.8% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.9%) 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 Pahrump, 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 Pahrump 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 Pahrump 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Pahrump Nevada United States
2009 7:12 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:06 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:14 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:16 AM 7:44 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:32 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:28 AM 7:45 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:31 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:32 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:36 AM 7:45 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:30 AM 7:45 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:29 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:25 AM 7:44 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:06 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:56 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:06 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:07 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pahrump were on the road by 7:07 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:12 AM). That goes against the trend across Nevada, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Pahrump now leave 31 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 Pahrump has moved 23 minutes earlier.

How does Pahrump's commute time compare?

Metric Pahrump Nevada US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.5 min 22.4 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 12.3% 11.9% 15.0%
Walked 1.6% 1.5% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 2.2% 3.2%

The average commute time in Pahrump is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Nevada.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Nevada. 1.6% commute by walking, higher than the 1.5% in Nevada.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pahrump, Nevada.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Pahrump, Nevada?

Commuters here spend an estimated 145 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,508 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical Nevada commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Pahrump, Nevada?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pahrump, Nevada. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Pahrump, Nevada?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 2.2% in Nevada, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.