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Commuting in Drexel Heights, 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 Drexel Heights: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Drexel Heights spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 214 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Drexel Heights holds about 0.4% of Arizona's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Drexel Heights would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,656 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)
Drexel Heights 25.7 min 51.4 min 214 hrs/yr $6,639 3,397
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.

Drexel Heights Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.7 minutes to get to work in Drexel Heights. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Drexel Heights

  • Car: 83.8%
  • Worked at Home: 11.1%
  • Other: 2.2%
  • Public Transportation: 1.3%
  • Taxi: 0.9% unusually high
  • Walked: 0.5% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Drexel Heights: 3.2 times less than the Arizona average (0.5% vs 1.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Drexel Heights: 4.3 times more than the Arizona average (0.9% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Drexel Heights: 17.9 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Drexel Heights: just 0.5%, 4.0 times below the Arizona average of 2.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Drexel Heights, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Drexel Heights 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 Public Transportation Taxi Walked Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 90.4% 4.3% 2.1% 2.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 91.4% 3.9% 2.4% 1.7% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 91.4% 3.6% 2.6% 1.7% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 91.6% 3.7% 2.4% 1.6% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.1%
2013 92.0% 3.8% 2.3% 1.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1%
2014 93.2% 3.6% 1.3% 1.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.3% 0.1%
2015 92.8% 3.6% 1.1% 1.7% 0.0% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1%
2016 91.4% 4.7% 1.3% 1.9% 0.0% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1%
2017 90.5% 5.1% 1.7% 1.5% 0.1% 0.7% 0.3% 0.2%
2018 91.3% 4.7% 1.0% 1.7% 0.0% 0.9% 0.1% 0.2%
2019 92.2% 4.6% 0.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 88.7% 7.7% 1.5% 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 88.3% 8.0% 1.6% 0.5% 0.9% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 86.6% 9.5% 1.9% 0.7% 0.8% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 86.1% 9.3% 2.1% 1.3% 0.9% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2024 83.8% 11.1% 2.2% 1.3% 0.9% 0.5% 0.1% 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 93.2%. Overall it fell from 90.4% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Drexel Heights: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 6.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Taking a taxi overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 5th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Drexel Heights

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Drexel Heights?

The bars show when commuters in Drexel Heights 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
7.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
6.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
13.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
10.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Drexel Heights is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Arizona. Early starts are more common than in Arizona: 27.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arizona: 36.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.1%) 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 Drexel Heights, 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 Drexel Heights 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 Drexel Heights 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 Drexel Heights Arizona United States
2009 7:16 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:16 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:23 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:23 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:25 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:29 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:24 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:18 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:19 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:10 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:08 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:10 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:07 AM 7:25 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:03 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:06 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:07 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Drexel Heights were on the road by 7:07 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:16 AM). That goes against the trend across Arizona, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Drexel Heights now leave 31 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Drexel Heights's commute time compare?

Metric Drexel Heights Arizona US Average
Avg. Commute Time 25.7 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 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 11.1% 18.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.5% 1.7% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.3% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Drexel Heights is 25.7 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

1.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Arizona. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Drexel Heights, Arizona.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Drexel Heights, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 214 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,639 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Drexel Heights, Arizona?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Drexel Heights, Arizona. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:30 AM – 05:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.