Rich County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Rich County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rich County spend about 26 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 107 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 32% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 6.1 minutes.

Rich County holds about 0.1% of Utah's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rich County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,325 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)
Rich County	12.8 min	25.6 min	107 hrs/yr	$3,313	175
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.

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On average, it takes 12.8 minutes to get to work in Rich County. That's 43% 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 18.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rich County

• Car: 71.7%
• Worked at Home: 18.9%
• Walked: 6.7% unusually high
• Other: 2.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Rich County, versus 0.2% in Utah.

Walking is unusually common in Rich County: 3.3 times more than the Utah average (6.7% vs 2.0%).

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

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Rich County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rich 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	80.6%	9.6%	8.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%
2010	76.5%	11.8%	8.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	2.9%	0.0%
2011	77.6%	12.1%	6.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%	3.7%	0.0%
2012	83.3%	6.7%	6.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	3.4%	0.0%
2013	81.5%	5.2%	6.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	5.8%	0.0%
2014	86.5%	2.2%	8.2%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	1.8%	0.0%
2015	82.8%	5.5%	8.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	2.2%	0.0%
2016	79.2%	8.2%	8.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	3.1%	0.0%
2017	80.7%	9.4%	6.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%
2018	86.0%	10.1%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	81.6%	12.7%	2.9%	0.0%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.7%	8.9%	1.2%	1.2%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.5%	12.1%	1.0%	1.9%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.8%	14.1%	2.7%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	70.7%	19.2%	6.6%	2.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.7%	18.9%	6.7%	2.7%	0.0%	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 was highest in 2020 at 86.7% and lowest in 2023 at 70.7%. Overall it fell from 80.6% in 2009 to 71.7% in 2024, down 8.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rich County: its share of workers rose from 9.6% in 2009 to 18.9% in 2024, up 9.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Riding a motorcycle lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 2.8% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Rich County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rich County?

The bars show when commuters in Rich 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	12:00-4:59 AM Rich County2.8% Utah4.8%	2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Rich County3.0% Utah3.6%	3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Rich County9.8% Utah5.1%	9.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Rich County9.0% Utah7.4%	9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Rich County11.4% Utah8.4%	11.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Rich County11.3% Utah12.3%	11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Rich County16.3% Utah12.5%	16.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Rich County13.2% Utah12.1%	13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Rich County7.4% Utah7.4%	7.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Rich County4.1% Utah7.7%	4.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Rich County3.5% Utah3.2%	3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Rich County1.0% Utah1.5%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Rich County1.0% Utah7.7%	1.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Rich County6.2% Utah6.3%	6.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rich County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 52.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (15.8%) 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 Rich 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 Rich 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 Rich 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Rich County	Utah	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:19 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rich County were on the road by 7:35 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). That goes against the trend across Utah, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Rich County now leave 3 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 Rich County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Rich County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rich County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	12.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.9%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	6.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rich County is 12.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 6.7% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau