Goodyear Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Goodyear, 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 Goodyear: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Goodyear spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 229 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Goodyear holds about 1.4% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 1.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Goodyear would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,835 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)
Goodyear	27.4 min	54.9 min	229 hrs/yr	$7,088	2,025
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.

Goodyear Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.4 minutes to get to work in Goodyear. That's 22% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Goodyear

Walking is unusually rare in Goodyear: 4.4 times less than the Arizona average (0.4% vs 1.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Goodyear: 9.6 times less than the Arizona average (0.1% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Goodyear: 15.6 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Goodyear, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Goodyear 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	Motorcycle	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	90.3%	6.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2010	91.0%	6.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	92.1%	5.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2012	91.6%	5.9%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	91.8%	5.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	92.2%	4.8%	1.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	90.7%	5.6%	1.7%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	89.1%	7.5%	1.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	89.5%	7.9%	1.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	88.6%	7.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2019	86.4%	9.4%	2.0%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%
2020	85.2%	10.8%	2.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.9%	0.1%
2021	84.2%	12.0%	2.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2022	80.3%	15.9%	1.7%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%
2023	78.1%	19.1%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	77.3%	20.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	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 92.2%. Overall it fell from 90.3% in 2009 to 77.3% in 2024, down 13.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Goodyear: its share of workers rose from 6.6% in 2009 to 20.7% in 2024, up 14.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Goodyear

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Goodyear?

The bars show when commuters in Goodyear 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		10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Goodyear is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Arizona. Early starts are more common than in Arizona: 26.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arizona: 37.3% 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 Goodyear, 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 Goodyear 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 Goodyear 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	Goodyear	Arizona	United States
2009	7:04 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	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:16 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:06 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:04 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:03 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	6:59 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:02 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:07 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Goodyear were on the road by 7:07 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:04 AM). Arizona followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Goodyear now leave 31 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 Goodyear has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Goodyear's commute time compare?

Metric	Goodyear	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.7%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Goodyear is 27.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.1% 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

Goodyear, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Goodyear, AZ	103,039	27.4 min #2/2	20.7% #1/2	7:07 AM #2/2
Avondale, AZ	88,371	26.5 min	14.9%	7:06 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Goodyear, Arizona.

Is living in Goodyear, Arizona good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 229 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,088 at a typical national wage. That's 22% more than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Goodyear, Arizona?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Goodyear, Arizona. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Goodyear, Arizona?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Arizona, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.