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Commuting in Prescott, 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 Prescott: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Prescott spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Prescott holds about 0.5% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Prescott would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,575 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)
Prescott 15.2 min 30.5 min 127 hrs/yr $3,936 2,702
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.

Prescott Commute Map

On average, it takes 15.2 minutes to get to work in Prescott. That's 32% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Prescott

  • Car: 77.4%
  • Worked at Home: 13.6%
  • Walked: 5.4% unusually high
  • Other: 2.6%
  • Bicycle: 0.5%
  • Taxi: 0.3%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually common in Prescott: 3.2 times more than the Arizona average (5.4% vs 1.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Prescott: 62.1 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Prescott, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Prescott 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 Walked Other Bicycle Taxi Motorcycle Public Transportation
2009 86.3% 7.5% 2.9% 1.1% 1.1% 0.5% 0.5% 0.2%
2010 86.3% 7.5% 3.1% 1.2% 1.0% 0.4% 0.4% 0.1%
2011 86.7% 7.5% 3.1% 0.7% 1.0% 0.5% 0.4% 0.2%
2012 86.8% 6.7% 3.0% 0.6% 1.1% 0.8% 0.6% 0.4%
2013 86.7% 6.1% 3.7% 0.6% 1.3% 0.7% 0.7% 0.2%
2014 87.1% 5.8% 4.5% 0.7% 0.9% 0.2% 0.5% 0.3%
2015 87.0% 5.6% 4.9% 0.4% 1.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.4%
2016 86.3% 5.5% 4.2% 0.7% 1.6% 0.9% 0.3% 0.5%
2017 86.4% 6.0% 4.2% 0.6% 1.4% 0.9% 0.2% 0.3%
2018 86.7% 6.5% 3.6% 0.6% 1.3% 0.7% 0.3% 0.3%
2019 85.1% 7.4% 3.7% 0.8% 1.4% 1.0% 0.2% 0.4%
2020 82.8% 7.9% 5.9% 1.3% 0.8% 0.7% 0.4% 0.2%
2021 81.9% 9.0% 5.5% 2.0% 0.8% 0.4% 0.2% 0.1%
2022 80.7% 10.3% 5.5% 2.3% 0.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1%
2023 79.7% 11.6% 5.4% 2.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.1%
2024 77.4% 13.6% 5.4% 2.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 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 87.1%. Overall it fell from 86.3% in 2009 to 77.4% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Prescott: its share of workers rose from 7.5% in 2009 to 13.6% in 2024, up 6.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Prescott

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Prescott?

The bars show when commuters in Prescott 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
3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
4.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
10.7%
7:00-7:29 AM
12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM
15.2%
8:00-8:29 AM
12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM
7.4%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Prescott is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Arizona. Early starts are less common than in Arizona: 12.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arizona: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.9%) 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 Prescott, 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 Prescott 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 Prescott 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 Prescott Arizona United States
2009 7:49 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:50 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:52 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:55 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:52 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:55 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:51 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:51 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:49 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:50 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:49 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:51 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:56 AM 7:25 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:52 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:54 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:50 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Prescott were on the road by 7:50 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:49 AM). Arizona followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Prescott now leave 12 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Prescott's commute time compare?

Metric Prescott Arizona US Average
Avg. Commute Time 15.2 min 22.4 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 13.6% 18.4% 15.0%
Walked 5.4% 1.7% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Prescott is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Arizona. 5.4% commute by walking, higher than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Prescott, AZ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Prescott, AZ 40,453 15.2 min #1/2 13.6% #1/2 7:49 AM #2/2
Prescott Valley, AZ 43,236 20.2 min 12.4% 7:26 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Prescott, Arizona.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 127 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,936 at a typical national wage. That's 32% less than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

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

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

Do people use public transit in Prescott, Arizona?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Arizona, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.