Laramie County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Laramie County, 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 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 125 hours, about 5.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Laramie County holds about 17.4% 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 50 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,554 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	15.0 min	30.1 min	125 hrs/yr	$3,886	614
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.

Commute Time Map: Wyoming Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Wyoming

Niobrara County (7.6 min)
Washakie County (7.9 min)
Hot Springs County (8.1 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Wyoming

Sublette County (20.5 min)
Crook County (17.5 min)
Lincoln County (17.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Laramie County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.0 minutes to get to work in Laramie County. That's 33% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 73% of counties in Wyoming

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 9.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Laramie County

Public transit is unusually rare in Laramie County: 3.4 times less than the Wyoming average (0.3% vs 0.9%).

Commute Mode Trends in Laramie County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Laramie County 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.1%	3.7%	1.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	92.2%	3.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	92.6%	3.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	92.5%	3.2%	1.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	92.2%	3.4%	1.9%	1.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	91.9%	3.6%	2.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	92.0%	3.0%	2.4%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	91.9%	3.6%	2.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	91.5%	3.8%	2.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	91.6%	4.0%	2.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	92.1%	4.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	91.8%	5.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	89.9%	7.1%	1.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	90.2%	7.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	89.2%	8.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.9%	9.1%	1.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 87.9% in 2024, down 4.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Laramie County: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 9.1% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Laramie County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Laramie County?

The bars show when commuters in Laramie County 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		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		13.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Laramie County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Wyoming. Early starts are about as common as in Wyoming: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wyoming: 54.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.7%) 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 County, 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 County 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 County 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 County	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:28 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:23 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Laramie County were on the road by 7:23 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:28 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wyoming, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Laramie County now leave 15 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 Laramie County has moved 2 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Laramie County in the whole series.

How does Laramie County's commute time compare?

Metric	Laramie County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.0 min	13.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.1%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Laramie County is 15.0 minutes, longer than the 13.2 minutes in Wyoming.

0.3% 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

Laramie County, WY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Laramie County, WY is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 101,060 residents against a local median of 12,605. Laramie County, WY's work from home, at 9.1%, runs 30% below the 13.0% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 15.0 min against a local median of 11.6 min, 29% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 29% above the local median it puts Laramie County, WY at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 17.1% on work from home, so Laramie County, WY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Laramie County, WY has the 4th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Laramie County, WY	101,060	15.0 min #4/6	9.1% #4/6	7:23 AM #5/6
Weld County, CO	350,361	23.5 min	14.3%	7:18 AM
Goshen County, WY	12,605	11.6 min	13.0%	7:23 AM
Platte County, WY	8,612	8.5 min	8.2%	7:14 AM
Kimball County, NE	3,248	10.0 min	4.3%	7:03 AM
Larimer County, CO	367,243	19.0 min	21.4%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Laramie County, Wyoming.

Is commuting expensive in Laramie County, Wyoming?

Commuters here spend an estimated 125 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,886 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Wyoming commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Laramie County, Wyoming. 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.

How common is public transit use in Laramie County, Wyoming?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 0.9% in Wyoming, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Wyoming have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Wyoming, the shortest average commutes are in Niobrara County (7.6 min), Washakie County (7.9 min), Hot Springs County (8.1 min). The longest are in Sublette County (20.5 min), Crook County (17.5 min), Lincoln County (17.3 min).