Sandy Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sandy, 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 Sandy: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sandy spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.

Sandy holds about 2.7% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 3.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sandy would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,239 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)
Sandy	21.7 min	43.3 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,598	3,247
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.

Sandy Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.7 minutes to get to work in Sandy. That's 3% 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 22.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sandy

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Sandy: 3.5 times less than the Utah average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Sandy, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sandy 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	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	88.3%	6.5%	3.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	88.2%	6.5%	2.8%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	88.8%	5.8%	2.8%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	88.3%	5.5%	3.1%	1.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	88.7%	5.2%	2.9%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	88.7%	5.5%	2.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	88.4%	5.9%	2.6%	1.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	87.8%	6.2%	2.9%	1.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	87.8%	6.5%	2.8%	1.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	87.2%	7.4%	2.9%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	87.1%	7.4%	2.9%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	84.2%	10.4%	2.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	80.8%	14.3%	2.2%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	77.9%	17.5%	1.9%	1.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	76.4%	19.4%	1.7%	1.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	74.2%	22.1%	1.4%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 88.8%. Overall it fell from 88.3% in 2009 to 74.2% in 2024, down 14.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sandy: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 22.1% in 2024, up 15.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 1.4% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Sandy

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sandy?

The bars show when commuters in Sandy 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		2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sandy is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Utah: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.3%) 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 Sandy, 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 Sandy 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 Sandy 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	Sandy	Utah	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:54 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:57 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:59 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:57 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:00 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:03 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:02 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sandy were on the road by 8:02 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:51 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Sandy now leave 25 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 Sandy has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Sandy's commute time compare?

Metric	Sandy	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.7 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	22.1%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sandy is 21.7 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

1.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sandy, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Sandy, UT is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 91,417 residents against a local median of 34,643. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Sandy, UT an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% below the local median at 22.1% against 24.0%. Sandy, UT has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sandy, UT	91,417	21.7 min #3/4	22.1% #3/4	8:02 AM #3/4
Cottonwood Heights, UT	32,277	21.3 min	25.1%	8:01 AM
Midvale, UT	34,643	20.1 min	16.4%	8:01 AM
Draper, UT	50,876	22.3 min	24.0%	8:04 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sandy, Utah.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Sandy, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 181 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,598 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Sandy, Utah?

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