Platte County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Platte County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Platte County spend about 17 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 71 hours, about 2.9 full days, spent commuting.

That is 36% less time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Platte County holds about 1.5% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Platte County would save about 28 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $874 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)
Platte County	8.5 min	16.9 min	71 hrs/yr	$2,186	154
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 8.5 minutes to get to work in Platte County. That's 62% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Wyoming

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM , followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.1% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 88.7%
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Walked: 3.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.4%
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Other: < 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Platte County: 4.6 times less than the Wyoming average (0.2% vs 0.9%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Platte County, versus 0.0% in Wyoming.

How does Platte County's commute time compare?

Metric	Platte County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	8.5 min	13.3 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.1%	8.5%	13.4%
Walked	3.4%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Platte County is 8.5 minutes, shorter than the 13.3 minutes in Wyoming.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.9% in Wyoming. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau