Magna Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Magna, 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 Magna: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Magna spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 185 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Magna holds about 0.8% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Magna would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,298 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)
Magna	22.2 min	44.5 min	185 hrs/yr	$5,746	2,861
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.

Magna Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.2 minutes to get to work in Magna. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Magna

Walking is unusually rare in Magna: 5.8 times less than the Utah average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Magna: 47690115.7 times less than the Utah average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is essentially absent in Magna, versus 0.5% in Utah.

Few people walk or bike to work in Magna: just 0.3%, 7.3 times below the Utah average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Magna, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Magna 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	Motorcycle	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	94.7%	1.6%	1.4%	0.5%	0.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	93.8%	1.6%	2.1%	0.5%	0.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	93.7%	1.5%	2.4%	0.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	2.2%	2.0%	0.7%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.4%	3.1%	1.8%	1.0%	0.8%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.6%	2.9%	2.2%	1.1%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.4%	2.8%	1.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.9%	2.9%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	93.4%	3.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.6%	3.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	94.2%	3.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	91.7%	5.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.3%	7.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.6%	8.3%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.9%	10.4%	1.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.2%	10.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 86.9%. Overall it fell from 94.7% in 2009 to 87.2% in 2024, down 7.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Magna: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 9.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.4% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 0.6%.

Commute Start Times in Magna

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Magna?

The bars show when commuters in Magna 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		8.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		2.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Magna is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 21.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Utah's: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.8%) 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 Magna, 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 Magna 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 Magna 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	Magna	Utah	United States
2009	7:20 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:13 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:14 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:16 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:21 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:19 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:18 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:17 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Magna were on the road by 7:17 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:20 AM). That goes against the trend across Utah, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Magna now leave 21 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Magna's commute time compare?

Metric	Magna	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.7%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Magna is 22.2 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Magna, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Magna, UT compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Magna, UT	26,106	22.2 min #2/3	10.7% #2/3	7:17 AM #2/3
West Valley City, UT	133,435	21.3 min	11.9%	7:38 AM
Kearns, UT	34,302	22.9 min	10.5%	7:14 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Magna, Utah.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Magna, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 185 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,746 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Magna, Utah?

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