Emery County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Emery County, Utah: 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 Emery County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Emery County spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 134 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Emery County holds about 0.3% of Utah's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Emery County would save about 54 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,667 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)
Emery County	16.1 min	32.3 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,167	232
Utah	18.9 min	37.8 min	158 hrs/yr	$4,885	1,192
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.

Commute Time Map: Utah Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Utah

Garfield County (7.3 min)
Daggett County (8.6 min)
Beaver County (8.7 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Utah

Tooele County (30.8 min)
Morgan County (23.8 min)
Piute County (22.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Emery County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.1 minutes to get to work in Emery County. That's 28% 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 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Emery County

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Emery County, versus 0.2% in Utah.

Public transit is unusually rare in Emery County: 7.5 times less than the Utah average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Emery County: 3.4 times more than the Utah average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Emery County, versus 0.5% in Utah.

Commute Mode Trends in Emery County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Emery County 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	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.9%	5.4%	3.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	90.9%	5.7%	2.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.2%	6.1%	3.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.9%	6.1%	2.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	91.4%	6.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	91.1%	4.6%	2.3%	0.2%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	89.9%	5.8%	2.1%	0.3%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2016	89.4%	6.6%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	89.4%	6.8%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	87.6%	7.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.7%
2019	89.3%	8.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	91.6%	6.2%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	92.1%	5.5%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	91.6%	5.9%	1.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	93.3%	5.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.4%	7.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2023 at 93.3% and lowest in 2018 at 87.6%. Overall it fell from 90.9% in 2009 to 90.4% in 2024, down 0.5 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Emery County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 1.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.4% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 1.5% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Emery County

Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Utah's 29 counties: the typical start is 15 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Emery County?

The bars show when commuters in Emery County 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 Utah for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		7.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		10.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

Emery County Utah Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Emery County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 20.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 51.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.4%) 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 Emery County, 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 Emery County 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 Emery County next to Utah 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	Emery County	Utah	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:31 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:33 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:22 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:18 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:23 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:24 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Emery County were on the road by 7:24 AM, 15 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). That goes against the trend across Utah, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Emery County now leave 14 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Emery County's commute time compare?

Metric	Emery County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.1 min	18.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.1%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Emery County is 16.1 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Emery County, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Emery County, UT is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 10,044 residents against a local median of 20,514. The measure that sets Emery County, UT apart most is one-way commute: 16.1 min, 30% above the local median of 12.4 min. That is the weaker end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 7.1% against a local median of 9.0%, 21% below it. The counties themselves spread 4.2 min on one-way commute, so Emery County, UT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Emery County, UT has the 6th lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Emery County, UT	10,044	16.1 min #6/6	7.1% #5/6	7:24 AM #2/6
Carbon County, UT	20,514	12.8 min	6.3%	7:40 AM
Wayne County, UT	2,583	11.2 min	24.0%	7:22 AM
Sanpete County, UT	29,709	13.0 min	8.7%	7:41 AM
Grand County, UT	9,754	8.8 min	9.0%	8:01 AM
Sevier County, UT	22,087	12.4 min	9.9%	7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Emery County, Utah.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Emery County, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 134 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,167 at a typical national wage. That's 15% less than the typical Utah commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Emery County, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Emery County, Utah. 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 Emery County, Utah?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Utah, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Utah?

Among counties in Utah, the shortest average commutes are in Garfield County (7.3 min), Daggett County (8.6 min), Beaver County (8.7 min). The longest are in Tooele County (30.8 min), Morgan County (23.8 min), Piute County (22.9 min).