San Juan County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in San Juan County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in San Juan County spend about 30 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 127 hours, about 5.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 19% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

San Juan County holds about 0.4% of Utah's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in San Juan County would save about 51 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,574 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)
San Juan County	15.2 min	30.5 min	127 hrs/yr	$3,936	141
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 15.2 minutes to get to work in San Juan County. That's 32% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

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

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 8.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.2%
• Worked at Home: 8.6%
• Walked: 5.9% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 1.1% unusually high
• Public Transportation: 0.7%
• Other: 0.4%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually common in San Juan County: 5.3 times more than the Utah average (1.1% vs 0.2%).

Walked commuting is unusually common in San Juan County: 3.0 times more than the Utah average (5.9% vs 2.0%).

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

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in San Juan County: 12.9 times less than the Utah average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

How does San Juan County's commute time compare?

Metric	San Juan County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.2 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.6%	16.0%	13.4%
Walked	5.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	1.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in San Juan County is 15.2 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Utah.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.7% in Utah. 5.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau