Laramie Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Laramie, 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 Laramie: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Laramie spend about 21 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 89 hours, about 3.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Laramie holds about 3.9% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 3.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Laramie would save about 36 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,110 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)
Laramie	10.7 min	21.5 min	89 hrs/yr	$2,774	1,309
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.

Laramie Commute Map

On average, it takes 10.7 minutes to get to work in Laramie. That's 52% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Laramie

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Laramie: 4.2 times more than the Wyoming average (0.2% vs 0.0%).

Biking is unusually common in Laramie: 7.4 times more than the Wyoming average (5.2% vs 0.7%).

Laramie stands out for active commuting: 14.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.4 times the Wyoming average of 4.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Laramie, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Laramie 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	69.8%	5.3%	14.8%	7.2%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	70.6%	4.6%	12.4%	9.3%	1.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	71.6%	5.1%	12.2%	8.6%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	71.9%	5.6%	11.6%	8.2%	1.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	72.5%	5.2%	11.6%	8.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	71.3%	5.7%	11.9%	8.1%	1.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	71.1%	5.5%	13.4%	6.5%	2.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	71.7%	5.3%	14.0%	5.7%	2.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	76.0%	4.4%	12.4%	4.8%	1.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	73.5%	4.8%	14.0%	5.2%	2.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	73.9%	4.1%	14.4%	5.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	77.3%	4.1%	12.2%	4.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	75.8%	6.4%	10.8%	5.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	72.3%	8.3%	11.8%	5.2%	1.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	71.9%	9.5%	9.9%	5.7%	1.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	70.6%	10.8%	9.5%	5.2%	2.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2020 at 77.3%. Overall it rose from 69.8% in 2009 to 70.6% in 2024, up 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Laramie: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 14.8% to 9.5% of workers (down 5.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 9.3% in 2010 and has since fallen back to 5.2%.

Commute Start Times in Laramie

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Laramie?

The bars show when commuters in Laramie 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		2.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Laramie is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 16.2% across Wyoming. Early starts are less common than in Wyoming: 6.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Wyoming's: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.4%) 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 Laramie, 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 Laramie 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 Laramie 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	Laramie	Wyoming	United States
2009	8:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:58 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:55 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:56 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:58 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:55 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:59 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:00 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:05 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:02 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:03 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Laramie were on the road by 8:03 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Wyoming, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Laramie now leave 25 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Laramie has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Laramie's commute time compare?

Metric	Laramie	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	10.7 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.8%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	9.5%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.4%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Laramie is 10.7 minutes, shorter than the 13.2 minutes in Wyoming.

2.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 9.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Laramie, Wyoming.

Is commuting expensive in Laramie, Wyoming?

Commuters here spend an estimated 89 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,774 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Wyoming commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Laramie, Wyoming. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.