Peoria Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Peoria, 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 Peoria: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Peoria spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 223 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Peoria holds about 2.6% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 3.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Peoria would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,768 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)
Peoria	26.8 min	53.6 min	223 hrs/yr	$6,919	3,917
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.

Peoria Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.8 minutes to get to work in Peoria. That's 19% 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 22.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Peoria

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Peoria: 3.2 times less than the Arizona average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Peoria, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Peoria 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	92.1%	4.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%
2010	91.6%	4.9%	0.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.6%
2011	91.2%	5.3%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.6%
2012	91.4%	5.1%	0.6%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%
2013	91.2%	5.5%	0.6%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2014	91.4%	5.6%	0.9%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	91.1%	6.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%
2016	90.7%	6.2%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2017	90.2%	6.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	90.2%	6.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2019	89.3%	7.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2020	85.6%	11.5%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	82.6%	14.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	80.0%	17.1%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2023	77.2%	20.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2024	74.8%	22.3%	1.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	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 74.8% in 2024, down 17.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Peoria: its share of workers rose from 4.5% in 2009 to 22.3% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 0.6% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Peoria

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Peoria?

The bars show when commuters in Peoria 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		7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Peoria is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Arizona. Early starts are less common than in Arizona: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Arizona's: 43.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.0%) 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 Peoria, 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 Peoria 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 Peoria 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	Peoria	Arizona	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:19 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:17 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:18 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Peoria were on the road by 7:18 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). Arizona followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Peoria now leave 19 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 Peoria has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Peoria's commute time compare?

Metric	Peoria	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.8 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	22.3%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Peoria is 26.8 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

Peoria, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Peoria, AZ is the largest of the 6 cities compared here, 193,918 residents against a local median of 34,950. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Peoria, AZ an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 15% above the local median at 22.3% against 19.4%. Peoria, AZ has the 2nd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Peoria, AZ	193,918	26.8 min #3/6	22.3% #2/6	7:18 AM #3/6
Sun City West, AZ	25,067	16.2 min	22.3%	7:42 AM
Sun City, AZ	40,024	23.1 min	19.4%	7:25 AM
Surprise, AZ	150,965	27.4 min	19.0%	7:13 AM
El Mirage, AZ	34,950	28.0 min	14.9%	7:06 AM
Anthem, AZ	22,541	27.1 min	33.1%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Peoria, Arizona.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Peoria, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 223 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,919 at a typical national wage. That's 19% more than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Peoria, Arizona?

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