Cheyenne Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cheyenne, 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 Cheyenne: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cheyenne spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 110 hours, about 4.6 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way.

Cheyenne holds about 8.4% of Wyoming's population and accounts for roughly 8.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cheyenne would save about 44 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,367 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)
Cheyenne	13.2 min	26.5 min	110 hrs/yr	$3,418	1,331
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.

Cheyenne Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.2 minutes to get to work in Cheyenne. 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 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cheyenne

Public transit is unusually rare in Cheyenne: 4.6 times less than the Wyoming average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Cheyenne, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cheyenne 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	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.7%	2.9%	1.9%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	92.6%	3.0%	1.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	92.5%	2.5%	2.1%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	92.0%	2.6%	2.6%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	91.7%	2.8%	2.6%	1.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2014	91.8%	2.8%	2.7%	1.6%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	91.6%	2.6%	3.0%	1.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	92.7%	2.7%	2.4%	1.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.4%	2.9%	2.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	92.5%	3.2%	2.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	92.9%	3.3%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	91.9%	4.8%	1.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	89.4%	7.0%	1.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2022	90.5%	7.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	89.8%	8.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	89.1%	8.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 92.9%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 89.1% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cheyenne: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.9% to 1.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cheyenne

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cheyenne?

The bars show when commuters in Cheyenne 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		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cheyenne is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.2% across Wyoming. Early starts are about as common as in Wyoming: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Wyoming's: 52.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.3%) 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 Cheyenne, 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 Cheyenne 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 Cheyenne 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	Cheyenne	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cheyenne were on the road by 7:28 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wyoming, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cheyenne now leave 9 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 Cheyenne has moved 3 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Cheyenne in the whole series.

How does Cheyenne's commute time compare?

Metric	Cheyenne	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.2 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	8.0%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.2%

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

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Is commuting expensive in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

Commuters here spend an estimated 110 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,418 at a typical national wage.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Cheyenne, 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.

How common is public transit use in Cheyenne, Wyoming?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Wyoming, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.