Tooele Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Tooele, 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 Tooele: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Tooele spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 66% more time on the road than the Utah average of 18.9 minutes each way, a difference of 12.5 minutes.

Tooele holds about 1.0% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 1.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Tooele would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,251 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)
Tooele	31.5 min	62.9 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,126	4,563
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.

Tooele Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.5 minutes to get to work in Tooele. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Tooele

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

Commute Mode Trends in Tooele, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Tooele 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	92.5%	2.3%	2.2%	2.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.3%	3.0%	2.3%	2.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	89.5%	3.5%	3.1%	2.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	88.4%	3.4%	3.8%	1.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	89.0%	3.6%	3.2%	1.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	91.1%	2.9%	2.7%	1.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	91.0%	3.0%	2.9%	1.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	92.7%	3.0%	1.6%	0.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	93.1%	3.7%	1.0%	1.1%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	92.8%	4.0%	1.1%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	91.7%	4.8%	1.1%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	90.3%	4.5%	2.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2021	87.4%	6.5%	2.2%	2.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	8.4%	2.0%	2.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.4%	10.3%	1.8%	1.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	82.8%	12.6%	1.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.3%	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 2017 at 93.1%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 82.8% in 2024, down 9.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Tooele: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 12.6% in 2024, up 10.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.1% to 1.5% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Public transit peaked at 3.8% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Tooele

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Tooele?

The bars show when commuters in Tooele 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		10.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		8.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Tooele is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.3% across Utah. Early starts are more common than in Utah: 26.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 13.5% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Utah: 37.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.8%) 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 Tooele, 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 Tooele 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 Tooele 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	Tooele	Utah	United States
2009	7:03 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:04 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:05 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:02 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:02 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:02 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:03 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:07 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:12 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:11 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:11 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:11 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:10 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:09 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Tooele were on the road by 7:09 AM, 6 minutes later than in 2009 (7:03 AM). The shift is sharper than across Utah, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Tooele now leave 29 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 Tooele has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Tooele's commute time compare?

Metric	Tooele	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.5 min	18.9 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.6%	17.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	1.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Tooele is 31.5 minutes, longer than the 18.9 minutes in Utah.

1.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.6% in Utah. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Tooele, Utah.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Tooele, Utah?

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,126 at a typical national wage. That's 66% more than the typical Utah commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Tooele, Utah?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Tooele, Utah. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.