Chandler Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chandler, 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 Chandler: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chandler spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 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 0.8 minutes.

Chandler holds about 3.7% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 3.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chandler would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,234 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)
Chandler	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,586	4,154
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.

Chandler Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.6 minutes to get to work in Chandler. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chandler

Commute Mode Trends in Chandler, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chandler 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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.2%	5.1%	0.8%	1.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	90.1%	5.4%	0.8%	1.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	89.7%	6.2%	0.8%	1.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	90.2%	5.8%	0.7%	1.0%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	89.9%	5.8%	0.9%	1.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	89.7%	6.0%	1.0%	0.7%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	89.3%	6.2%	0.9%	0.9%	1.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2016	89.5%	6.1%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.8%
2017	88.9%	6.5%	1.0%	1.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%
2018	88.7%	6.8%	0.8%	1.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.5%
2019	88.7%	6.9%	0.9%	1.3%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	85.4%	10.7%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
2021	81.1%	15.3%	1.0%	1.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	77.5%	19.2%	1.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	74.3%	22.3%	1.2%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	71.8%	24.9%	1.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 71.8% in 2024, down 18.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chandler: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 24.9% in 2024, up 19.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Chandler

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chandler?

The bars show when commuters in Chandler 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		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chandler is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Arizona. Early starts are less common than in Arizona: 16.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arizona: 45.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Chandler, 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 Chandler 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 Chandler 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	Chandler	Arizona	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chandler were on the road by 7:31 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:28 AM). Arizona followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Chandler now leave 7 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 Chandler has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Chandler's commute time compare?

Metric	Chandler	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.6 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	24.9%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chandler is about the same as in Arizona.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Chandler, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Chandler, AZ compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Chandler, AZ	269,220	21.6 min #2/3	24.9% #2/3	7:31 AM #1/3
Gilbert, AZ	272,475	23.0 min	26.1%	7:33 AM
Tempe, AZ	185,665	18.9 min	21.3%	8:03 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chandler, Arizona.

Is commuting expensive in Chandler, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,586 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 Chandler, Arizona?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Chandler, 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.

How much money can remote workers save in Chandler, Arizona?

About 24.9% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Chandler would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,234 at the same national wage assumption used above.