Sahuarita Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Sahuarita: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sahuarita 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 9.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sahuarita would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,845 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)
Sahuarita	27.5 min	55.1 min	229 hrs/yr	$7,113	2,349
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.

Sahuarita Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.5 minutes to get to work in Sahuarita. That's 23% 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 15.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sahuarita

• Car: 82.4%
• Worked at Home: 15.4%
• Other: 1.6%
• Motorcycle: 0.6%
• Walked: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Walking is unusually rare in Sahuarita: 21.9 times less than the Arizona average (0.1% vs 1.7%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Sahuarita, versus 1.0% in Arizona.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Sahuarita, versus 0.2% in Arizona.

Biking is unusually rare in Sahuarita: 65.1 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Sahuarita: just 0.1%, 25.8 times below the Arizona average of 2.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in Sahuarita, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sahuarita 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.0%	4.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	95.6%	3.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	96.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.3%	3.1%	0.4%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	93.6%	3.4%	0.7%	1.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.7%	3.7%	0.9%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.0%	3.2%	1.1%	1.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	3.5%	1.2%	1.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.6%	2.9%	0.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	94.0%	3.3%	0.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	94.8%	2.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	5.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.4%	8.4%	0.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	87.7%	10.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	85.2%	12.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.4%	15.4%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 96.3%. Overall it fell from 94.0% in 2009 to 82.4% in 2024, down 11.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sahuarita: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 15.4% in 2024, up 11.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.1% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 2.0% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Sahuarita

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sahuarita?

The bars show when commuters in Sahuarita 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	12:00-4:59 AM Sahuarita8.7% Arizona8.5%	8.7%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Sahuarita6.5% Arizona5.8%	6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Sahuarita3.6% Arizona5.7%	3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Sahuarita10.4% Arizona9.2%	10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Sahuarita11.7% Arizona9.3%	11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Sahuarita16.2% Arizona13.1%	16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Sahuarita13.1% Arizona10.1%	13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Sahuarita9.3% Arizona10.1%	9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Sahuarita2.3% Arizona4.2%	2.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Sahuarita2.2% Arizona5.9%	2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Sahuarita2.1% Arizona2.9%	2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Sahuarita0.4% Arizona1.5%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Sahuarita7.2% Arizona7.0%	7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Sahuarita6.2% Arizona6.5%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sahuarita is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.1% across Arizona. Early starts are less common than in Arizona: 18.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Arizona: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Sahuarita, 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 Sahuarita 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 Sahuarita 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.

• Sahuarita
• Arizona
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Sahuarita	Arizona	United States
2009	7:16 AM	7:23 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:25 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:19 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sahuarita were on the road by 7:17 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:16 AM). Arizona followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Sahuarita now leave 21 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Sahuarita's commute time compare?

Metric	Sahuarita	Arizona	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.5 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	15.4%	18.4%	15.0%
Walked	< 0.1%	1.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sahuarita is 27.5 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Arizona. 0.1% commute by walking, lower than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau