South Salt Lake Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in South Salt Lake, 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 South Salt Lake: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in South Salt Lake spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

South Salt Lake holds about 0.8% of Utah's population and accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in South Salt Lake would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,896 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)
South Salt Lake	18.3 min	36.7 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,739	3,649
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.

South Salt Lake Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.3 minutes to get to work in South Salt Lake. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in South Salt Lake

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in South Salt Lake, versus 0.2% in Utah.

Taking a taxi is unusually common in South Salt Lake: 3.7 times more than the Utah average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in South Salt Lake, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in South Salt Lake 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	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	81.0%	2.4%	11.1%	0.5%	1.5%	3.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	81.8%	1.0%	10.5%	0.6%	2.0%	3.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2011	84.1%	0.8%	8.1%	1.1%	2.7%	2.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	85.1%	0.6%	7.7%	1.2%	2.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	86.1%	0.7%	8.5%	1.1%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	84.8%	1.4%	9.1%	1.0%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	83.3%	1.6%	11.0%	1.0%	1.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%
2016	84.2%	1.9%	10.7%	0.9%	1.2%	0.5%	0.5%	0.2%
2017	83.3%	2.0%	10.4%	1.0%	2.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%
2018	82.9%	2.8%	10.0%	0.8%	1.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	84.0%	3.1%	7.3%	0.9%	3.2%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%
2020	84.6%	5.3%	5.1%	1.3%	3.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	83.8%	6.5%	4.9%	0.7%	2.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	83.5%	9.2%	2.9%	0.2%	2.6%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	77.9%	14.6%	3.2%	1.2%	2.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	77.7%	16.2%	3.2%	1.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 86.1%. Overall it fell from 81.0% in 2009 to 77.7% in 2024, down 3.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in South Salt Lake: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 16.2% in 2024, up 13.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 11.1% to 3.2% of workers (down 7.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.0%.

Commute Start Times in South Salt Lake

What Time Do People Leave for Work in South Salt Lake?

The bars show when commuters in South Salt Lake 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		4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

South Salt Lake Utah Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in South Salt Lake is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.4% across Utah. Early starts are less common than in Utah: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Utah: 35.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (32.9%) 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 South Salt Lake, 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 South Salt Lake 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 South Salt Lake 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	South Salt Lake	Utah	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:52 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:55 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:02 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:59 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:57 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:01 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:05 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:59 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in South Salt Lake were on the road by 7:59 AM, 24 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in South Salt Lake now leave 21 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does South Salt Lake's commute time compare?

Metric	South Salt Lake	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.3 min	18.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 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	16.2%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.2%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in South Salt Lake is 18.3 minutes, shorter than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

3.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Utah. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

South Salt Lake, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

South Salt Lake, UT is the smallest of the 6 cities compared here, 27,794 residents against a local median of 54,009. Where South Salt Lake, UT breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 24% below the local median of 21.2% at 16.2%.

The cities themselves spread 9.8% on work from home, so South Salt Lake, UT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. South Salt Lake, UT has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
South Salt Lake, UT	27,794	18.3 min #2/6	16.2% #5/6	7:59 AM #2/6
Murray, UT	50,269	20.5 min	21.2%	8:01 AM
Taylorsville, UT	61,499	20.2 min	14.6%	7:33 AM
Millcreek, UT	54,009	18.8 min	23.2%	7:59 AM
Salt Lake City, UT	213,141	17.4 min	20.3%	8:11 AM
Holladay, UT	31,175	20.5 min	24.4%	8:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in South Salt Lake, Utah.

What is the financial impact of commuting in South Salt Lake, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 153 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,739 at a typical national wage. That's 3% less than the typical Utah commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in South Salt Lake, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in South Salt Lake, 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.