Kearns Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kearns, 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 Kearns: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kearns spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 191 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 4.0 minutes.

Kearns holds about 1.0% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kearns would save about 76 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,370 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)
Kearns	22.9 min	45.9 min	191 hrs/yr	$5,924	4,976
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.

Kearns Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.9 minutes to get to work in Kearns. That's 2% longer 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 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kearns

Walking is unusually rare in Kearns: 3.7 times less than the Utah average (0.5% vs 2.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kearns, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kearns 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	Other	Bicycle	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.9%	1.2%	3.4%	1.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	94.2%	0.9%	2.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	93.4%	1.5%	2.7%	1.0%	0.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	93.0%	1.8%	2.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	92.9%	2.7%	2.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	2.6%	3.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	92.7%	3.0%	2.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	92.1%	2.4%	3.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.5%
2017	93.2%	2.4%	2.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	93.4%	2.1%	2.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%
2019	94.1%	2.3%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2020	91.3%	5.0%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	89.0%	8.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	87.9%	9.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2023	85.8%	11.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2024	86.2%	10.5%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 94.2% and lowest in 2023 at 85.8%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 86.2% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kearns: its share of workers rose from 1.2% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 9.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.4% to 1.0% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Kearns

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kearns?

The bars show when commuters in Kearns 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		9.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kearns is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 21.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Utah's: 43.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.0%) 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 Kearns, 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 Kearns 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 Kearns 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	Kearns	Utah	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:26 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:23 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:13 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:12 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:08 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:10 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:10 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:08 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:14 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kearns were on the road by 7:14 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:22 AM). That goes against the trend across Utah, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Kearns now leave 23 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 Kearns has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Kearns's commute time compare?

Metric	Kearns	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.9 min	18.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.5%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kearns is 22.9 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Kearns, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Kearns, UT is the smallest of the 6 cities compared here, 34,302 residents against a local median of 80,556. The measure that sets Kearns, UT apart most is work from home: 10.5%, 45% below the local median of 19.2%.

The cities themselves spread 11.8% on work from home, so Kearns, UT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Kearns, UT has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Kearns, UT	34,302	22.9 min #6/6	10.5% #6/6	7:14 AM #1/6
West Valley City, UT	133,435	21.3 min	11.9%	7:38 AM
West Jordan, UT	115,866	22.9 min	19.2%	7:41 AM
Taylorsville, UT	61,499	20.2 min	14.6%	7:33 AM
South Jordan, UT	80,556	22.5 min	23.7%	7:59 AM
Murray, UT	50,269	20.5 min	21.2%	8:01 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kearns, Utah.

Is living in Kearns, Utah good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 191 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,924 at a typical national wage. That's 21% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Kearns, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Kearns, Utah. 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.