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Commuting in Grand 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 Grand County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Grand County spend about 18 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 73 hours, about 3.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 54% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 10.2 minutes.

Grand County holds about 0.3% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Grand County would save about 29 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $905 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)
Grand County 8.8 min 17.5 min 73 hrs/yr $2,262 143
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
  1. Garfield County (7.3 min)
  2. Daggett County (8.6 min)
  3. Beaver County (8.7 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Utah
  1. Tooele County (30.8 min)
  2. Morgan County (23.8 min)
  3. Piute County (22.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Grand County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 8.8 minutes to get to work in Grand County. That's 61% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in Utah

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Grand County

  • Car: 81.5%
  • Worked at Home: 9.0%
  • Bicycle: 6.3% unusually high
  • Walked: 3.0%
  • Motorcycle: 0.2%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Other: < 0.1%

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Grand County: 12.3 times more than the Utah average (6.3% vs 0.5%).

Grand County stands out for active commuting: 9.3% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.7 times the Utah average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Grand County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Grand 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 Bicycle Walked Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Other
2009 82.7% 4.6% 5.2% 5.7% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 1.0%
2010 79.8% 3.7% 7.0% 6.4% 1.5% 0.4% 0.0% 1.1%
2011 81.8% 3.7% 6.6% 5.5% 1.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.8%
2012 79.4% 5.7% 5.4% 6.9% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0% 1.1%
2013 79.4% 5.5% 4.6% 6.8% 2.5% 0.4% 0.0% 0.9%
2014 78.5% 7.1% 5.6% 5.5% 1.8% 0.4% 0.0% 1.2%
2015 81.2% 7.0% 4.0% 6.0% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2016 80.2% 8.0% 4.0% 5.6% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
2017 79.6% 10.4% 2.4% 4.7% 1.5% 0.1% 0.0% 1.3%
2018 81.2% 8.7% 3.1% 6.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 79.8% 8.4% 5.9% 4.6% 0.8% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3%
2020 85.1% 8.6% 3.2% 2.3% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 84.7% 8.6% 3.5% 2.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
2022 84.0% 8.2% 4.5% 2.9% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 81.6% 10.9% 5.1% 2.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 81.5% 9.0% 6.3% 3.0% 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 was highest in 2020 at 85.1% and lowest in 2014 at 78.5%. Overall it fell from 82.7% in 2009 to 81.5% in 2024, down 1.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Grand County: its share of workers rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 4.4 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.7% to 3.0% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook biking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 2.5% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.2%.

Commute Start Times in Grand County

  • Night OwlThe 2nd-latest start among Utah's 29 counties: half of commuters are still at home at 8:01 AM.
  • Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Utah's 29 counties: 56.8% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Grand County?

The bars show when commuters in Grand 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
2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
3.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
4.2%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM
21.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
7.1%
9:00-9:59 AM
6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Grand County is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 21.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 9.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 56.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Grand 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 Grand 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 Grand 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 Grand County Utah United States
2009 8:00 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:52 AM 7:47 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:53 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:51 AM 7:47 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:56 AM 7:48 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:46 AM 7:48 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:58 AM 7:48 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:50 AM 7:48 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:50 AM 7:48 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:49 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:52 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:53 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:59 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2022 8:01 AM 7:50 AM 7:37 AM
2023 8:03 AM 7:50 AM 7:38 AM
2024 8:01 AM 7:50 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Grand County were on the road by 8:01 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (8:00 AM). Utah followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Grand County now leave 23 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 Grand County has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Grand County's commute time compare?

Metric Grand County Utah US Average
Avg. Commute Time 8.8 min 18.9 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 9.0% 17.6% 15.0%
Walked 3.0% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Grand County is 8.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 3.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Grand County, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Grand County, UT is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 9,754 residents against a local median of 20,514. The measure that sets Grand County, UT apart most is one-way commute: 8.8 min, 42% below the local median of 15.0 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves sit within 3.4 min of each other on one-way commute, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Grand County, UT, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Grand County, UT has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Grand County, UT 9,754 8.8 min #1/6 9.0% #3/6 8:01 AM #6/6
Mesa County, CO 158,600 16.2 min 13.7% 7:37 AM
Emery County, UT 10,044 16.1 min 7.1% 7:24 AM
Uintah County, UT 37,051 13.0 min 8.0% 7:30 AM
Carbon County, UT 20,514 12.8 min 6.3% 7:40 AM
San Juan County, UT 14,481 15.0 min 10.0% 7:28 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Grand County, Utah.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 73 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,262 at a typical national wage. That's 54% less than the typical Utah commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Grand County, Utah. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Grand County, Utah?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Utah, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across 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).