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Morgan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Morgan 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 Morgan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morgan County spend about 48 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 198 hours, about 8.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 4.9 minutes.

Morgan County holds about 0.4% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morgan County would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,459 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)
Morgan County 23.8 min 47.6 min 198 hrs/yr $6,147 1,646
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

Morgan County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 23.8 minutes to get to work in Morgan County. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Utah

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 13.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morgan County

  • Car: 83.8%
  • Worked at Home: 13.7%
  • Other: 1.4%
  • Walked: 0.8%
  • Motorcycle: 0.3%
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

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

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Morgan County: just 0.8%, 3.2 times below the Utah average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Morgan County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morgan 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 Other Walked Motorcycle Public Transportation Taxi Bicycle
2009 89.6% 5.4% 0.0% 2.1% 1.4% 1.3% 0.0% 0.2%
2010 89.8% 5.8% 0.0% 2.6% 0.7% 0.9% 0.0% 0.2%
2011 92.0% 4.3% 0.0% 1.8% 0.6% 0.9% 0.0% 0.4%
2012 91.9% 4.4% 0.0% 2.0% 0.5% 0.9% 0.0% 0.3%
2013 91.8% 5.0% 0.0% 1.9% 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2014 92.0% 5.2% 0.3% 1.7% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2015 93.4% 4.4% 0.3% 1.3% 0.4% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
2016 94.0% 3.8% 0.3% 1.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 93.3% 3.9% 0.8% 1.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2%
2018 92.0% 4.1% 2.2% 1.2% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 92.8% 3.9% 1.8% 0.9% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2020 90.2% 6.4% 1.7% 1.3% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.2%
2021 86.7% 9.2% 2.4% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.3%
2022 86.2% 10.0% 2.2% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 85.0% 12.2% 1.5% 1.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 83.8% 13.7% 1.4% 0.8% 0.3% 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 2016 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 89.6% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 5.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morgan County: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 13.7% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Morgan County

  • Hitting SnoozeThe 2nd-biggest shift to later mornings among Utah's 29 counties: the typical start is 11 minutes later than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morgan County?

The bars show when commuters in Morgan 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
3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM
4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM
16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
17.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.3%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morgan County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 17.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 12.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 56.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County Utah United States
2009 7:21 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:23 AM 7:47 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:25 AM 7:46 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:27 AM 7:47 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:28 AM 7:48 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:26 AM 7:48 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:24 AM 7:48 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:27 AM 7:48 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:28 AM 7:48 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:26 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:25 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:25 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:26 AM 7:48 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:28 AM 7:50 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:29 AM 7:50 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:32 AM 7:50 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morgan County were on the road by 7:32 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:21 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Morgan County now leave 6 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 Morgan County has moved 7 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Morgan County in the whole series.

How does Morgan County's commute time compare?

Metric Morgan County Utah US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.8 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 13.7% 17.6% 15.0%
Walked 0.8% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Morgan County is 23.8 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Morgan County, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Morgan County, UT is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 12,802 residents against a local median of 269,655. Where Morgan County, UT breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 25% below the local median of 18.1% at 13.7%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 23.8 min against a local median of 20.6 min, 16% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 16% above the local median it puts Morgan County, UT at the weaker end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 5.6% on work from home, so Morgan County, UT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Morgan County, UT has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Morgan County, UT 12,802 23.8 min #6/6 13.7% #6/6 7:32 AM #2/6
Weber County, UT 269,655 20.6 min 15.3% 7:29 AM
Davis County, UT 370,319 21.0 min 18.1% 7:42 AM
Salt Lake County, UT 1,196,263 21.0 min 19.7% 7:55 AM
Rich County, UT 2,629 12.8 min 18.9% 7:35 AM
Cache County, UT 139,938 15.1 min 14.0% 7:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morgan County, Utah.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 198 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,147 at a typical national wage. That's 26% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Morgan 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Morgan 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).