Pleasant Grove Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pleasant Grove, 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 Pleasant Grove: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pleasant Grove spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 7% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 1.4 minutes.

Pleasant Grove holds about 1.0% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pleasant Grove would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,099 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)
Pleasant Grove	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,247	2,986
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.

Pleasant Grove Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Pleasant Grove. That's 9% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pleasant Grove

Public transit is unusually rare in Pleasant Grove: 6.5 times less than the Utah average (0.2% vs 1.6%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pleasant Grove, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pleasant Grove 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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	87.8%	6.0%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	3.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2010	86.2%	7.3%	1.9%	0.6%	0.2%	2.7%	1.1%	0.0%
2011	86.2%	6.9%	2.0%	0.6%	0.2%	3.1%	1.0%	0.0%
2012	86.8%	6.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	2.8%	0.9%	0.0%
2013	87.7%	6.0%	1.6%	0.4%	0.4%	3.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2014	88.7%	6.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	2.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2015	87.5%	7.4%	0.9%	0.7%	0.6%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	88.2%	6.5%	1.1%	1.0%	0.7%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	87.9%	6.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.4%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	86.9%	7.3%	2.4%	0.6%	0.4%	2.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	87.2%	6.5%	3.0%	0.5%	0.3%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	87.2%	8.5%	1.3%	0.8%	0.2%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	84.3%	11.7%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	83.2%	13.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	80.9%	15.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	79.2%	18.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	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 88.7%. Overall it fell from 87.8% in 2009 to 79.2% in 2024, down 8.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pleasant Grove: its share of workers rose from 6.0% in 2009 to 18.2% in 2024, up 12.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 0.2% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.0% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.3%.

Commute Start Times in Pleasant Grove

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pleasant Grove?

The bars show when commuters in Pleasant Grove 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		3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		11.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pleasant Grove is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 10.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Utah: 42.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.8%) 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 Pleasant Grove, 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 Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove 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	Pleasant Grove	Utah	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:00 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:03 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:56 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:55 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:55 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:58 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:00 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:58 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:57 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:05 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pleasant Grove were on the road by 8:05 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:54 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Pleasant Grove now leave 27 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 Pleasant Grove has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Pleasant Grove in the whole series.

How does Pleasant Grove's commute time compare?

Metric	Pleasant Grove	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 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	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.2%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pleasant Grove is 20.3 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pleasant Grove, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Pleasant Grove, UT compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pleasant Grove, UT	34,874	20.3 min #2/2	18.2% #2/2	8:05 AM #2/2
American Fork, UT	34,445	18.8 min	19.0%	7:58 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

Is commuting expensive in Pleasant Grove, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 169 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,247 at a typical national wage. That's 7% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Pleasant Grove, Utah?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.6% in Utah, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.