Syracuse Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Syracuse, 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 Syracuse: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Syracuse spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

Syracuse holds about 0.7% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Syracuse would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,279 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)
Syracuse	22.1 min	44.1 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,698	5,341
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.

Syracuse Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Syracuse. That's 2% 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 15.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Syracuse

Walking is unusually rare in Syracuse: 6.3 times less than the Utah average (0.3% vs 2.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Syracuse: 95.6 times less than the Utah average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Syracuse: 4.1 times less than the Utah average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Syracuse: just 0.4%, 5.7 times below the Utah average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Syracuse, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Syracuse 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	93.5%	2.9%	1.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	94.4%	2.6%	1.4%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	93.9%	3.0%	1.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	93.3%	3.2%	1.6%	0.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	92.4%	3.4%	1.8%	0.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	92.4%	3.5%	1.6%	0.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	91.5%	3.1%	1.7%	1.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	91.4%	3.3%	1.9%	1.3%	1.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	91.9%	3.8%	1.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	4.3%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	92.3%	4.4%	1.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	87.5%	10.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%
2021	85.1%	12.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2022	84.8%	12.7%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2023	84.1%	13.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2024	82.2%	15.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2010 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 82.2% in 2024, down 11.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Syracuse: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 15.5% in 2024, up 12.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Syracuse

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Syracuse?

The bars show when commuters in Syracuse 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		13.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Syracuse is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.4% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 15.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Utah: 40.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.9%) 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 Syracuse, 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 Syracuse 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 Syracuse 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	Syracuse	Utah	United States
2009	7:22 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:23 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:36 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:31 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Syracuse were on the road by 7:34 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:22 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Syracuse now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Syracuse has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Syracuse's commute time compare?

Metric	Syracuse	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 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	15.5%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Syracuse is 22.1 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.6% in Utah. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Syracuse, UT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Syracuse, UT is the 3rd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 25,391 residents against a local median of 30,852. Nothing separates Syracuse, UT sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 6% above the local median at 22.1 min against 20.8 min. Syracuse, UT has the 4th lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Syracuse, UT	25,391	22.1 min #4/4	15.5% #3/4	7:34 AM #4/4
Clearfield, UT	30,852	18.8 min	12.6%	7:21 AM
Clinton, UT	20,426	20.8 min	18.7%	7:32 AM
Roy, UT	39,212	21.0 min	16.0%	7:20 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Syracuse, Utah.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,698 at a typical national wage. That's 17% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Syracuse, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Syracuse, 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.