Avondale Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Avondale: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Avondale spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Avondale holds about 1.2% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Avondale would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,742 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)
Avondale	26.5 min	53.1 min	221 hrs/yr	$6,855	2,764
Arizona	22.4 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,798	1,948
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.

Avondale Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.5 minutes to get to work in Avondale. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Avondale

• Car: 81.8%
• Worked at Home: 14.9%
• Other: 2.0%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Avondale: 4.0 times less than the Arizona average (0.4% vs 1.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Avondale: 4.1 times less than the Arizona average (0.3% vs 1.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Avondale: 3.1 times less than the Arizona average (0.2% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Avondale: just 0.6%, 3.8 times below the Arizona average of 2.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Avondale, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Avondale 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
• Other
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.1%	2.8%	1.5%	2.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2010	92.7%	2.7%	0.9%	2.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	91.7%	3.7%	0.9%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2012	92.1%	3.5%	1.0%	1.2%	1.0%	0.1%	1.1%	0.1%
2013	91.9%	3.8%	0.9%	1.1%	1.0%	0.1%	1.0%	0.3%
2014	92.3%	3.8%	0.8%	1.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%
2015	92.4%	3.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.6%
2016	92.6%	4.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%
2017	91.9%	4.5%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%
2018	91.8%	4.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%
2019	92.1%	4.5%	0.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2020	89.3%	6.9%	1.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%
2021	86.9%	9.3%	1.3%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2022	85.2%	11.2%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%
2023	82.2%	14.1%	2.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2024	81.8%	14.9%	2.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 92.7%. Overall it fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 81.8% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Avondale: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 14.9% in 2024, up 12.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Avondale

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Avondale?

The bars show when commuters in Avondale 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 Arizona for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Avondale11.9% Arizona8.5%	11.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Avondale7.5% Arizona5.8%	7.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Avondale5.2% Arizona5.7%	5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Avondale13.0% Arizona9.2%	13.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Avondale10.1% Arizona9.3%	10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Avondale12.1% Arizona13.1%	12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Avondale6.2% Arizona10.1%	6.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Avondale6.0% Arizona10.1%	6.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Avondale3.4% Arizona4.2%	3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Avondale4.8% Arizona5.9%	4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Avondale2.5% Arizona2.9%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Avondale1.4% Arizona1.5%	1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Avondale7.7% Arizona7.0%	7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Avondale8.1% Arizona6.5%	8.1%

Avondale Arizona Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Avondale is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.2% across Arizona. Early starts are more common than in Arizona: 24.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arizona: 34.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Avondale, 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 Avondale 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 Avondale next to Arizona 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.

• Avondale
• Arizona
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Avondale	Arizona	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:11 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:13 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:10 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:05 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:03 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Avondale were on the road by 7:06 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:08 AM). That goes against the trend across Arizona, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Avondale now leave 32 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 Avondale has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Avondale's commute time compare?

Metric	Avondale	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.5 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	14.9%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Avondale is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Arizona. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau