Orem Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Orem, 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 Orem: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Orem spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 11% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 2.0 minutes.

Orem holds about 2.8% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 2.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Orem would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,746 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)
Orem	16.9 min	33.8 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,365	4,535
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.

Orem Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.9 minutes to get to work in Orem. That's 25% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Orem

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

Commute Mode Trends in Orem, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Orem 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	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	88.1%	5.7%	2.3%	1.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%
2010	88.2%	5.8%	2.4%	1.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	88.4%	5.5%	2.5%	1.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	88.7%	5.0%	2.3%	1.9%	1.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	88.6%	5.2%	2.1%	2.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	89.7%	4.5%	1.9%	1.8%	1.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	88.8%	4.7%	2.0%	2.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	88.5%	4.9%	1.8%	2.2%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	88.0%	5.1%	2.2%	2.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%
2018	88.1%	5.2%	2.1%	2.1%	1.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	87.3%	5.8%	2.3%	2.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	84.5%	9.0%	2.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	82.3%	11.4%	2.4%	2.0%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2022	80.6%	13.4%	2.2%	2.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	79.3%	15.0%	2.2%	2.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	77.7%	16.4%	2.3%	2.0%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 89.7%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 77.7% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Orem: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 16.4% in 2024, up 10.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Orem

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Orem?

The bars show when commuters in Orem 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		3.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Orem is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Utah: 41.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.7%) 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 Orem, 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 Orem 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 Orem 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	Orem	Utah	United States
2009	8:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:07 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:07 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:09 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:08 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:09 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:04 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:08 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:06 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:06 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:08 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:09 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Orem were on the road by 8:09 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (8:05 AM). Utah followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Orem now leave 31 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 Orem has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Orem's commute time compare?

Metric	Orem	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.4%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Orem is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

2.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Utah. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Orem, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Orem, UT is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 96,497 residents against a local median of 34,874. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Orem, UT an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 10% below the local median at 16.9 min against 18.8 min. Orem, UT has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Orem, UT	96,497	16.9 min #2/4	16.4% #3/4	8:09 AM #3/4
Provo, UT	102,550	16.1 min	15.7%	8:27 AM
Pleasant Grove, UT	34,874	20.3 min	18.2%	8:05 AM
American Fork, UT	34,445	18.8 min	19.0%	7:58 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Orem, Utah.

Is commuting expensive in Orem, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 141 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,365 at a typical national wage. That's 11% less than the typical Utah commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Orem, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Orem, 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.