Grants Pass Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Grants Pass, Oregon: 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 Grants Pass: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grants Pass spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 107 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Grants Pass holds about 0.7% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grants Pass would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,332 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)
Grants Pass	12.9 min	25.8 min	107 hrs/yr	$3,330	1,862
Oregon	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,203	967
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.

Grants Pass Commute Map

On average, it takes 12.9 minutes to get to work in Grants Pass. That's 42% shorter 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 8.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grants Pass

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Grants Pass: 3.7 times more than the Oregon average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Grants Pass: 3.5 times less than the Oregon average (0.6% vs 2.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Grants Pass: 6041.8 times less than the Oregon average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Grants Pass, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grants Pass 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	Motorcycle	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	88.9%	4.1%	3.5%	0.8%	1.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	89.4%	4.2%	3.8%	0.6%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	88.6%	5.1%	3.4%	0.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	89.3%	5.1%	2.8%	0.4%	1.4%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	91.1%	4.0%	2.6%	0.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	91.2%	3.5%	2.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	91.2%	3.2%	2.3%	1.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	91.7%	2.4%	2.6%	1.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%
2017	90.9%	2.8%	2.9%	1.0%	1.3%	0.1%	0.8%	0.4%
2018	90.2%	3.7%	2.9%	1.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%
2019	89.6%	4.4%	3.4%	0.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2020	89.2%	5.2%	3.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2021	87.8%	6.9%	2.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%
2022	86.8%	7.6%	3.3%	1.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	86.1%	8.3%	2.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%
2024	85.2%	8.9%	2.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 91.7%. Overall it fell from 88.9% in 2009 to 85.2% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grants Pass: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 8.9% in 2024, up 4.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.5% to 2.5% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Grants Pass

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grants Pass?

The bars show when commuters in Grants Pass 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 Oregon for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		6.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.8%

Grants Pass Oregon Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Grants Pass is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are more common than in Oregon: 17.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Oregon's: 44.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.2%) 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 Grants Pass, 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 Grants Pass 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 Grants Pass next to Oregon 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	Grants Pass	Oregon	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:43 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:40 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grants Pass were on the road by 7:38 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:51 AM). That goes against the trend across Oregon, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Grants Pass now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Grants Pass in the whole series.

How does Grants Pass's commute time compare?

Metric	Grants Pass	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.9 min	20.1 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	8.9%	19.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Grants Pass is 12.9 minutes, shorter than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 2.5% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Is living in Grants Pass, Oregon good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 107 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,330 at a typical national wage. That's 36% less than the typical Oregon commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Grants Pass, Oregon?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Grants Pass, Oregon. 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 Grants Pass, Oregon?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.6% of commuters use it versus 2.2% in Oregon, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.