Sweetwater County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sweetwater County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 130 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Wyoming average of 13.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Sweetwater County holds about 7.1% of Wyoming's population but accounts for roughly 8.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sweetwater County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,612 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)
Sweetwater County	15.6 min	31.2 min	130 hrs/yr	$4,030	323
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

Sweetwater County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.6 minutes to get to work in Sweetwater County. That's 30% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest 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 4.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sweetwater County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Sweetwater County: 18.4 times less than the Wyoming average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Sweetwater County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sweetwater 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	91.5%	2.5%	2.5%	2.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.6%	2.1%	3.0%	2.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	92.0%	1.9%	3.0%	2.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.3%	2.6%	3.0%	2.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.7%	2.3%	3.2%	2.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.6%	1.9%	2.3%	2.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	92.6%	1.6%	2.4%	2.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.0%	1.8%	2.3%	3.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.8%	1.5%	2.6%	2.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	89.9%	2.5%	2.5%	3.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
2019	90.7%	2.2%	2.9%	3.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	90.7%	2.3%	2.5%	3.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2021	90.9%	2.5%	2.4%	2.8%	0.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%
2022	91.1%	3.0%	2.0%	2.8%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	92.1%	2.8%	2.4%	1.8%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	89.6%	4.4%	2.5%	2.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 89.6% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sweetwater County: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 4.4% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 2.4% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Sweetwater County

Rush-Hour DodgersThe 2nd-lowest share of rush-hour departures among Wyoming's 23 counties: only 38.3% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sweetwater County?

The bars show when commuters in Sweetwater 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		8.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		10.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sweetwater County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across Wyoming. Early starts are more common than in Wyoming: 26.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Wyoming: 38.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 51.4% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater 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 Sweetwater 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	Sweetwater County	Wyoming	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:21 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:30 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:30 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:22 AM	7:29 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:25 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:16 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:12 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sweetwater County were on the road by 7:12 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). The shift is sharper than across Wyoming, where the typical start moved 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Sweetwater County now leave 26 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 Sweetwater County has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Sweetwater County in the whole series.

How does Sweetwater County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sweetwater County	Wyoming	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.6 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	4.4%	9.4%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	3.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.5%	0.9%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sweetwater County is 15.6 minutes, longer than the 13.2 minutes in Wyoming.

2.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.9% in Wyoming. 2.4% commute by walking, lower than the 3.6% in Wyoming.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sweetwater County, WY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sweetwater County, WY is the largest of the 6 counties compared here, 41,542 residents against a local median of 13,207. Sweetwater County, WY's work from home, at 4.4%, runs 45% below the 8.0% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 15.6 min against a local median of 13.0 min, 20% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 20% above the local median it puts Sweetwater County, WY at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 11.8% on work from home, so Sweetwater County, WY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sweetwater County, WY has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sweetwater County, WY	41,542	15.6 min #5/6	4.4% #5/6	7:12 AM #1/6
Daggett County, UT	782	8.6 min	5.1%	7:21 AM
Moffat County, CO	13,207	12.2 min	4.3%	7:22 AM
Fremont County, WY	39,456	13.1 min	9.7%	7:34 AM
Sublette County, WY	8,838	20.5 min	16.1%	7:18 AM
Uintah County, UT	37,051	13.0 min	8.0%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Sweetwater County, Wyoming?

Commuters here spend an estimated 130 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,030 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Wyoming commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Sweetwater County, Wyoming?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Sweetwater 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 do commute times compare across counties in Wyoming?

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).