Murray Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Murray, 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 Murray: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Murray spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 171 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.6 minutes.

Murray holds about 1.5% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Murray would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,118 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)
Murray	20.5 min	41.0 min	171 hrs/yr	$5,295	3,947
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.

Murray Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.5 minutes to get to work in Murray. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 21.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Murray

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Murray: 13.0 times less than the Utah average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Murray, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Murray 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	88.5%	3.4%	3.9%	2.5%	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	89.4%	3.4%	3.2%	2.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	88.7%	3.7%	3.4%	2.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	88.7%	3.4%	3.4%	2.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%
2013	88.4%	4.0%	3.5%	2.4%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	88.1%	4.6%	3.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	86.7%	4.8%	4.1%	2.3%	0.7%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	85.8%	5.2%	3.7%	3.4%	0.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	84.8%	5.7%	4.1%	3.2%	0.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	84.0%	6.3%	4.2%	3.4%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	84.3%	6.3%	4.0%	3.1%	0.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	82.6%	9.8%	3.7%	1.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	79.1%	14.8%	3.4%	0.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	76.7%	18.0%	2.8%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	76.1%	19.3%	2.2%	0.8%	1.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	74.1%	21.2%	2.4%	1.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 89.4%. Overall it fell from 88.5% in 2009 to 74.1% in 2024, down 14.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Murray: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 21.2% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 2.4% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2013 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Murray

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Murray?

The bars show when commuters in Murray 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Murray is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.1% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 9.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Murray, 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 Murray 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 Murray 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	Murray	Utah	United States
2009	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:53 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:58 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:56 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:55 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:55 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:57 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:01 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Murray were on the road by 8:01 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:53 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Murray 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 Murray has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Murray in the whole series.

How does Murray's commute time compare?

Metric	Murray	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.5 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	21.2%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.4%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Murray is 20.5 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

2.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Utah. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Murray, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Murray, UT is the 3rd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 50,269 residents against a local median of 34,643. Where Murray, UT breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 29% above the local median of 16.4% at 21.2%.

The cities themselves spread 9.8% on work from home, so Murray, UT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Murray, UT has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Murray, UT	50,269	20.5 min #6/6	21.2% #3/6	8:01 AM #5/6
Midvale, UT	34,643	20.1 min	16.4%	8:01 AM
South Salt Lake, UT	27,794	18.3 min	16.2%	7:59 AM
Taylorsville, UT	61,499	20.2 min	14.6%	7:33 AM
Holladay, UT	31,175	20.5 min	24.4%	8:18 AM
Millcreek, UT	54,009	18.8 min	23.2%	7:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Murray, Utah.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 171 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,295 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Murray, 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.