Apache County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Apache County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Apache County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 178 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting.

That is 5% less time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Apache County holds about 0.9% of Arizona's population and accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Apache County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,203 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)
Apache County	21.3 min	42.6 min	178 hrs/yr	$5,508	171
Arizona	22.5 min	45.0 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,808	1,948
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: Arizona Counties

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On average, it takes 21.3 minutes to get to work in Apache County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the 5 slowest counties in Arizona

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 9.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 85.1%
• Worked at Home: 9.3%
• Walked: 4.0%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.6%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Apache County, versus 0.3% in Arizona.

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Apache County, versus 0.2% in Arizona.

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Apache County: 9.2 times less than the Arizona average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

How does Apache County's commute time compare?

Metric	Apache County	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 min	22.5 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.3%	16.5%	13.4%
Walked	4.0%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.2%	3.5%

The average commute time in Apache County is 21.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.5 minutes in Arizona.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.2% in Arizona. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau