Rich County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Rich County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rich County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting.

That is 11% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 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 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,733 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	16.8 min	33.5 min	140 hrs/yr	$4,332	175
Utah	18.8 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,868	1,192
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

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On average, it takes 16.8 minutes to get to work in Rich County. That's 25% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 19.2% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 70.7%
• Worked at Home: 19.2%
• Walked: 6.6% unusually high
• Other: 2.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.0%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Rich County, versus 0.2% in Utah.

Walked commuting is unusually common in Rich County: 3.4 times more than the Utah average (6.6% vs 2.0%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Rich County, versus 0.1% in Utah.

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

How does Rich County's commute time compare?

Metric	Rich County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.8 min	18.8 min	22.5 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	19.2%	16.0%	13.4%
Walked	6.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	1.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Rich County is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Utah.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.7% in Utah. 6.6% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau