Natrona County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Natrona County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Natrona 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 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Natrona County holds about 13.7% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 15.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Natrona County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,566 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)
Natrona County	15.2 min	30.3 min	126 hrs/yr	$3,916	750
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.

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On average, it takes 15.2 minutes to get to work in Natrona County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Slower than 77% of counties in Wyoming

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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Natrona County

• Car: 86.6%
• Worked at Home: 9.9%
• Walked: 1.9%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Biking is unusually rare in Natrona County: 3.7 times less than the Wyoming average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Natrona County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Natrona 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.9%	2.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.9%	2.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	93.4%	2.7%	1.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	93.1%	2.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	93.1%	2.9%	1.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	93.4%	2.9%	1.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	93.4%	3.1%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	93.5%	3.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.3%	3.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	93.0%	3.9%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	93.0%	4.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	91.3%	5.8%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	90.3%	6.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.1%	7.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	9.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	86.6%	9.9%	1.9%	0.8%	0.5%	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 2010 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 86.6% in 2024, down 6.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Natrona County: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 7.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Natrona County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Natrona County?

The bars show when commuters in Natrona 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	12:00-4:59 AM Natrona County5.3% Wyoming5.8%	5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Natrona County3.6% Wyoming4.3%	3.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Natrona County6.6% Wyoming6.2%	6.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Natrona County6.4% Wyoming7.8%	6.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Natrona County10.2% Wyoming10.4%	10.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Natrona County13.4% Wyoming15.1%	13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Natrona County20.3% Wyoming16.2%	20.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Natrona County10.1% Wyoming9.7%	10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Natrona County4.1% Wyoming4.2%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Natrona County4.9% Wyoming5.6%	4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Natrona County2.3% Wyoming2.3%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Natrona County1.3% Wyoming1.5%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Natrona County6.1% Wyoming5.6%	6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Natrona County5.4% Wyoming5.3%	5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Natrona County 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: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Wyoming: 54.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Natrona 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 Natrona 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 Natrona 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.

• Natrona County
• Wyoming
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Natrona County	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:38 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Natrona County were on the road by 7:37 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Wyoming, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Natrona County now leave 1 minute 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 Natrona County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Natrona County's commute time compare?

Metric	Natrona County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 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	9.9%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Natrona County is 15.2 minutes, longer than the 13.2 minutes in Wyoming.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau