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San Luis Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in San Luis, 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 San Luis: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in San Luis spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Arizona average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

San Luis holds about 0.3% of Arizona's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in San Luis would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,913 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)
San Luis 28.2 min 56.4 min 235 hrs/yr $7,282 1,506
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.

San Luis Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.2 minutes to get to work in San Luis. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in San Luis

  • Car: 90.7%
  • Worked at Home: 7.3%
  • Public Transportation: 1.5%
  • Walked: 0.2% unusually low
  • Other: 0.2%
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in San Luis: 222980864.7 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Walking is unusually rare in San Luis: 6.6 times less than the Arizona average (0.2% vs 1.7%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in San Luis: 30.0 times less than the Arizona average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in San Luis: just 0.3%, 8.1 times below the Arizona average of 2.1%.

Commute Mode Trends in San Luis, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in San Luis 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 Public Transportation Walked Other Taxi Motorcycle Bicycle
2009 78.8% 2.2% 16.5% 1.3% 0.4% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 80.8% 2.1% 14.2% 1.1% 0.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.8%
2011 85.2% 1.7% 10.3% 0.9% 0.1% 1.2% 0.1% 0.5%
2012 88.3% 2.4% 7.2% 0.8% 0.1% 0.6% 0.1% 0.5%
2013 90.0% 3.8% 3.5% 1.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.7% 0.4%
2014 89.6% 4.6% 2.9% 1.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.6% 0.9%
2015 90.4% 4.9% 1.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.5% 0.5%
2016 88.9% 4.7% 3.8% 1.4% 0.1% 0.1% 0.5% 0.5%
2017 88.2% 4.2% 5.1% 1.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.5% 0.5%
2018 89.8% 3.2% 5.0% 1.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2019 90.5% 2.4% 5.7% 0.9% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 91.7% 3.1% 4.2% 0.5% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 90.1% 5.2% 3.0% 0.8% 0.7% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 90.1% 6.3% 2.0% 0.9% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 88.6% 7.4% 1.7% 1.3% 0.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 90.7% 7.3% 1.5% 0.2% 0.2% 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 2020 at 91.7%. Overall it rose from 78.8% in 2009 to 90.7% in 2024, up 11.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in San Luis: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 16.5% to 1.5% of workers (down 15.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in San Luis

What Time Do People Leave for Work in San Luis?

The bars show when commuters in San Luis 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
10.3%
5:00-5:29 AM
14.1%
5:30-5:59 AM
6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM
12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
4.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
3.9%
8:30-8:59 AM
6.5%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
5.3%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in San Luis is 5:00-5:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.8% across Arizona. Early starts are more common than in Arizona: 30.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 20.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Arizona: 30.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 42.6% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 San Luis, 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 San Luis 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 San Luis 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 San Luis Arizona United States
2009 6:31 AM 7:23 AM 7:37 AM
2010 6:31 AM 7:25 AM 7:38 AM
2011 6:44 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2012 6:47 AM 7:27 AM 7:38 AM
2013 6:50 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2014 6:53 AM 7:27 AM 7:39 AM
2015 6:54 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2016 6:47 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2017 6:45 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2018 6:42 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2019 6:45 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2020 6:38 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2021 6:34 AM 7:25 AM 7:37 AM
2022 6:37 AM 7:26 AM 7:37 AM
2023 6:48 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM
2024 6:47 AM 7:26 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in San Luis were on the road by 6:47 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (6:31 AM). The shift is sharper than across Arizona, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in San Luis now leave 50 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 San Luis has moved 2 minutes later.

How does San Luis's commute time compare?

Metric San Luis Arizona US Average
Avg. Commute Time 28.2 min 22.4 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 7.3% 18.4% 15.0%
Walked 0.2% 1.7% 2.4%
Public Transit 1.5% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in San Luis is 28.2 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Arizona.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Arizona. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 1.7% in Arizona.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in San Luis, Arizona.

Is commuting expensive in San Luis, Arizona?

Commuters here spend an estimated 235 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,282 at a typical national wage. That's 26% more than the typical Arizona commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM in San Luis, Arizona. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.