Gilbert Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Gilbert, 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 Gilbert: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Gilbert spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Gilbert holds about 3.7% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 3.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Gilbert would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,380 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)
Gilbert	23.0 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,950	4,313
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.

Gilbert Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Gilbert. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 26.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Gilbert

Commute Mode Trends in Gilbert, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Gilbert 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	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.1%	5.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	91.7%	5.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%
2011	91.6%	5.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%
2012	90.4%	6.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%
2013	90.2%	6.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%
2014	89.6%	6.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%
2015	88.9%	7.2%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.9%	0.0%
2016	88.6%	7.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%
2017	88.9%	7.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%
2018	87.9%	8.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%
2019	87.8%	8.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2020	84.3%	12.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%
2021	79.5%	17.0%	1.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	76.0%	20.5%	1.4%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	73.0%	23.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	70.1%	26.1%	1.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.1% in 2009 to 70.1% in 2024, down 22.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Gilbert: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 26.1% in 2024, up 20.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Gilbert

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Gilbert?

The bars show when commuters in Gilbert 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		5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Gilbert is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Arizona. Early starts are less common than in Arizona: 15.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arizona: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.8%) 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 Gilbert, 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 Gilbert 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 Gilbert 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	Gilbert	Arizona	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:26 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:26 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Gilbert were on the road by 7:33 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arizona, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Gilbert now leave 5 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 Gilbert has moved 8 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Gilbert in the whole series.

How does Gilbert's commute time compare?

Metric	Gilbert	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	26.1%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Gilbert is 23.0 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Arizona. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Gilbert, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Gilbert, AZ is typical in size for this group, 272,475 residents against a local median of 269,220, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Gilbert, AZ sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 10% above the local median at 26.1% against 23.8%. Gilbert, AZ has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Gilbert, AZ	272,475	23.0 min #3/4	26.1% #1/4	7:33 AM #4/4
Mesa, AZ	504,945	22.6 min	18.5%	7:22 AM
Chandler, AZ	269,220	21.6 min	24.9%	7:31 AM
Queen Creek, AZ	67,869	30.8 min	23.8%	7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Gilbert, Arizona.

Is commuting expensive in Gilbert, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,950 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

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

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

How much time do residents in Gilbert, Arizona save by working from home?

About 26.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Gilbert would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,380 at the same national wage assumption used above.