Casper Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Casper, Wyoming: 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 Casper: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Casper spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 109 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Casper holds about 7.7% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 7.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Casper would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,356 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)
Casper	13.1 min	26.2 min	109 hrs/yr	$3,390	1,594
Wyoming	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,422	263
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.

Casper Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.1 minutes to get to work in Casper. That's 41% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Casper

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Casper: 323.8 times less than the Wyoming average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Casper, versus 0.0% in Wyoming.

Commute Mode Trends in Casper, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Casper 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	2.5%	1.9%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	93.5%	2.2%	1.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	93.0%	2.4%	2.0%	0.8%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	92.6%	2.7%	2.1%	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.8%	2.5%	2.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	92.6%	2.7%	2.3%	0.7%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	92.8%	2.9%	2.0%	0.5%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	93.3%	2.6%	2.0%	0.5%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	93.2%	3.0%	1.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	92.8%	3.5%	1.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.7%	3.7%	1.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	90.4%	6.1%	2.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.2%	7.3%	2.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	8.3%	1.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	86.6%	9.5%	2.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	86.0%	10.1%	2.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	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 2010 at 93.5%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Casper: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 10.1% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.8% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Casper

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Casper?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		20.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

Casper Wyoming Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Casper is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.2% across Wyoming. Early starts are about as common as in Wyoming: 15.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Wyoming's: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Casper, 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 Casper 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 Casper next to Wyoming 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	Casper	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Casper were on the road by 7:40 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Wyoming, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Casper now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Casper's commute time compare?

Metric	Casper	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.1 min	13.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.1%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.8%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Casper is about the same as in Wyoming.

0.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 2.3% commute by walking, lower than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Casper, Wyoming.

Is living in Casper, Wyoming good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 109 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,390 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical Wyoming commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Casper, Wyoming?

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