Catalina Foothills Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Catalina Foothills, Arizona: 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 Catalina Foothills: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Catalina Foothills spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 179 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Catalina Foothills holds about 0.7% of Arizona's population and accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Catalina Foothills would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,219 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)
Catalina Foothills	21.5 min	43.0 min	179 hrs/yr	$5,548	3,410
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.

Catalina Foothills Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.5 minutes to get to work in Catalina Foothills. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 21.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Catalina Foothills

Public transit is unusually rare in Catalina Foothills: 3.7 times less than the Arizona average (0.3% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Catalina Foothills, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Catalina Foothills 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	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.0%	8.4%	1.0%	1.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	87.2%	9.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	87.8%	9.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	87.4%	8.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	87.1%	9.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	86.6%	9.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	87.1%	9.0%	1.5%	0.7%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	87.6%	8.4%	1.3%	0.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	87.0%	9.0%	0.9%	1.2%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.8%	9.2%	0.8%	1.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	85.3%	10.6%	0.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%
2020	81.7%	13.5%	2.0%	1.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%
2021	79.7%	16.4%	1.7%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	78.1%	18.1%	1.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2023	76.4%	20.1%	1.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	74.6%	21.5%	1.8%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 88.0% in 2009 to 74.6% in 2024, down 13.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Catalina Foothills: its share of workers rose from 8.4% in 2009 to 21.5% in 2024, up 13.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Catalina Foothills

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Catalina Foothills?

The bars show when commuters in Catalina Foothills 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		2.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Catalina Foothills is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Arizona. Early starts are less common than in Arizona: 7.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arizona: 51.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.0%) 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 Catalina Foothills, 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 Catalina Foothills 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 Catalina Foothills 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Catalina Foothills	Arizona	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:50 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:52 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Catalina Foothills were on the road by 7:52 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:47 AM). Arizona followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Catalina Foothills now leave 14 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Catalina Foothills has moved 10 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Catalina Foothills in the whole series.

How does Catalina Foothills's commute time compare?

Metric	Catalina Foothills	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.5 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.5%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Catalina Foothills is 21.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Arizona. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Catalina Foothills, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Catalina Foothills, AZ compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Catalina Foothills, AZ	53,988	21.5 min #1/2	21.5% #1/2	7:52 AM #2/2
Casas Adobes, AZ	69,352	22.4 min	15.9%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Catalina Foothills, Arizona.

Is commuting expensive in Catalina Foothills, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 179 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,548 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Catalina Foothills, Arizona?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Catalina Foothills, Arizona. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Catalina Foothills, Arizona?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Arizona, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.