Washington County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Washington County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Washington County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting.

That is 13% less time on the road than the Utah average of 18.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Washington County holds about 5.9% of Utah's population but accounts for roughly 5.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Washington County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,691 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)
Washington County	16.4 min	32.7 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,228	1,384
Utah	18.8 min	37.7 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,868	1,192
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Washington County. That's 27% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 13.1% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.2%
• Worked at Home: 13.1%
• Walked: 1.5%
• Other: 1.1%
• Public Transportation: 0.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.3%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Washington County: 3.8 times less than the Utah average (0.4% vs 1.7%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Washington County, versus 0.1% in Utah.

How does Washington County's commute time compare?

Metric	Washington County	Utah	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 min	18.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	13.1%	16.0%	13.4%
Walked	1.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.7%	3.5%

The average commute time in Washington County is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 18.8 minutes in Utah.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.7% in Utah. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Utah.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau