Salt Lake has some of the nation's fastest drive times, cell data show
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Salt Lake enjoys some of the quickest drives of all U.S. cities, a new report finds.
By the numbers: It took an average 10 minutes 33 seconds to drive 6 miles in the city center in 2024, according to TomTom's annual Traffic Index, released Tuesday.
- In the whole metro area, the average drive time was 9 minutes 46 seconds — the third lowest of 71 U.S. cities analyzed.
Between the lines: Lots of factors go into how quickly you can drive 6 miles in a given city, including traffic congestion, construction and weather.
How it works: TomTom's report is based on a representative sample of data collected by "over 600 million devices" and "over 61 billion anonymous GPS data points around the world," the company says.
- The numbers above are based on city centers — "the densest areas that capture 20% of all trips within the city-connected area," per TomTom.
Zoom out: New York, San Francisco and Honolulu are home to the country's slowest driving, the analysis showed.
- In the heart of the Big Apple, it took an average of about 30 minutes to drive 6 miles.