Garfield County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Garfield County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Garfield County spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 61 hours, about 2.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 61% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 11.6 minutes.

Garfield County holds about 0.2% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Garfield County would save about 24 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $754 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)
Garfield County	7.3 min	14.6 min	61 hrs/yr	$1,886	116
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.

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On average, it takes 7.3 minutes to get to work in Garfield County. That's 67% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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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 10.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Garfield County

• Car: 77.6%
• Worked at Home: 10.0%
• Walked: 9.2% unusually high
• Other: 3.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually common in Garfield County: 4.6 times more than the Utah average (9.2% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Garfield County, versus 1.6% in Utah.

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Garfield County, versus 0.1% in Utah.

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

Garfield County stands out for active commuting: 9.2% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.7 times the Utah average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Garfield County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Garfield 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	81.0%	10.7%	6.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%
2010	79.7%	9.5%	9.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2011	79.4%	9.2%	9.3%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%
2012	83.4%	5.9%	8.7%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	84.7%	4.8%	8.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2014	82.5%	5.4%	9.2%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	84.9%	4.5%	8.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.5%
2016	83.7%	6.5%	7.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%	1.2%
2017	84.4%	7.3%	5.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	1.2%
2018	83.7%	7.8%	5.5%	2.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.6%
2019	83.0%	8.1%	6.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.7%
2020	79.1%	9.9%	8.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	80.7%	7.4%	9.3%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.6%	6.3%	9.7%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.2%	7.5%	6.8%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.6%	10.0%	9.2%	3.2%	0.0%	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 2015 at 84.9%. Overall it fell from 81.0% in 2009 to 77.6% in 2024, down 3.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Walking gained the most ground in Garfield County: its share of workers rose from 6.6% in 2009 to 9.2% in 2024, up 2.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home lost the most ground, falling from 10.7% to 10.0% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Biking peaked at 1.5% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Garfield County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Garfield County?

The bars show when commuters in Garfield 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	12:00-4:59 AM Garfield County5.1% Utah4.8%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Garfield County4.2% Utah3.6%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Garfield County2.1% Utah5.1%	2.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Garfield County6.3% Utah7.4%	6.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Garfield County4.5% Utah8.4%	4.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Garfield County13.5% Utah12.3%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Garfield County16.3% Utah12.5%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Garfield County13.4% Utah12.1%	13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Garfield County7.9% Utah7.4%	7.9%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Garfield County4.0% Utah7.7%	4.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Garfield County4.1% Utah3.2%	4.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Garfield County3.1% Utah1.5%	3.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Garfield County8.6% Utah7.7%	8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Garfield County6.9% Utah6.3%	6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Garfield County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Garfield 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 Garfield 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 Garfield 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Garfield County	Utah	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:51 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:44 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:53 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:58 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Garfield County were on the road by 7:56 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:48 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Garfield County now leave 19 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Garfield County has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Garfield County's commute time compare?

Metric	Garfield County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.3 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	10.0%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	9.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Garfield County is 7.3 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 9.2% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau