Sanpete County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Sanpete County, 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 Sanpete County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Sanpete 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 108 hours, about 4.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 31% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 5.9 minutes.

Sanpete County holds about 0.9% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Sanpete County would save about 43 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,339 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)
Sanpete County	13.0 min	25.9 min	108 hrs/yr	$3,348	459
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.

Commute Time Map: Utah Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Utah

Garfield County (7.3 min)
Daggett County (8.6 min)
Beaver County (8.7 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Utah

Tooele County (30.8 min)
Morgan County (23.8 min)
Piute County (22.9 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Sanpete County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 13.0 minutes to get to work in Sanpete County. That's 42% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Sanpete County

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Sanpete County: 13.4 times less than the Utah average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Sanpete County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Sanpete 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.

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	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	84.1%	7.2%	6.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	83.9%	6.8%	6.8%	0.1%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	85.8%	6.0%	5.4%	0.4%	0.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.4%
2012	86.2%	6.0%	4.9%	0.4%	0.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	86.6%	6.5%	4.3%	0.4%	0.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	85.9%	6.7%	5.3%	0.3%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	86.8%	5.8%	5.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	87.3%	5.8%	5.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	86.2%	7.2%	5.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.3%	6.9%	5.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	85.9%	7.9%	4.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	84.6%	8.9%	5.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.2%	9.4%	5.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	85.5%	8.4%	4.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	83.8%	9.6%	5.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	85.7%	8.7%	4.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	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 2016 at 87.3% and lowest in 2023 at 83.8%. Overall it rose from 84.1% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, up 1.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Sanpete County: its share of workers rose from 7.2% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.9% to 4.3% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Public transit overtook riding a motorcycle to become the 4th most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Sanpete County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sanpete County?

The bars show when commuters in Sanpete 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		9.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Sanpete County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.5% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush looks much like Utah's: 43.7% 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 Sanpete 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 Sanpete 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 Sanpete 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Sanpete County	Utah	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:39 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Sanpete County were on the road by 7:41 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:47 AM). That goes against the trend across Utah, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Sanpete County now leave 3 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 Sanpete County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Sanpete County's commute time compare?

Metric	Sanpete County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.0 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Sanpete County is 13.0 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 4.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Sanpete County, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Sanpete County, UT is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 29,709 residents against a local median of 22,087. The measure that sets Sanpete County, UT apart most is one-way commute: 13.0 min, 20% below the local median of 16.1 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The counties themselves spread 8.1 min on one-way commute, so Sanpete County, UT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Sanpete County, UT has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Sanpete County, UT	29,709	13.0 min #3/6	8.7% #4/6	7:41 AM #3/6
Sevier County, UT	22,087	12.4 min	9.9%	7:44 AM
Utah County, UT	704,800	18.9 min	19.0%	8:01 AM
Emery County, UT	10,044	16.1 min	7.1%	7:24 AM
Carbon County, UT	20,514	12.8 min	6.3%	7:40 AM
Wasatch County, UT	36,658	20.5 min	19.1%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Sanpete County, Utah.

Is living in Sanpete County, Utah good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 108 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,348 at a typical national wage. That's 31% less than the typical Utah commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Sanpete County, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Sanpete County, Utah. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in Utah?

Among counties in Utah, the shortest average commutes are in Garfield County (7.3 min), Daggett County (8.6 min), Beaver County (8.7 min). The longest are in Tooele County (30.8 min), Morgan County (23.8 min), Piute County (22.9 min).