Laramie County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Laramie County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Laramie County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 126 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 14% more time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Laramie County holds about 17.2% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 19.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Laramie County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,567 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 County	15.2 min	30.3 min	126 hrs/yr	$3,918	614
Wyoming	13.3 min	26.5 min	111 hrs/yr	$3,429	263
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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.

Commute Time Map: Wyoming Counties

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On average, it takes 15.2 minutes to get to work in Laramie County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Wyoming

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 8.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 89.2%
• Worked at Home: 8.4%
• Walked: 0.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.7%
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Laramie County: 3.3 times less than the Wyoming average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Walked commuting is unusually low in Laramie County: 3.6 times less than the Wyoming average (0.9% vs 3.4%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Laramie County: just 1.3%, 3.2 times below the Wyoming average of 4.2%.

How does Laramie County's commute time compare?

Metric	Laramie County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 min	13.3 min	22.5 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	8.4%	8.5%	13.4%
Walked	0.9%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Laramie County is 15.2 minutes, longer than the 13.3 minutes in Wyoming.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 3.4% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau