Great "rural" area gets kind of crowded getting into "town". With the Airport you have a couple choices. First choice would be Mesa Gateway where you can get some flights from the Economy Airlines it's maybe 20-45 minutes depending on how far out of town you want to go, or you go into the "city" and fly out of Sky Harbor and that is going to take some time behind the wheel, how long would depend on time of day but over an hour during rush hour wouldn't shock me. Agan depending on how far from "town" you are.
it is a pretty spread out area. My boss has a buddy who lived by Schmidty's shop and I considered that far out of town to me and he moved 30 minutes southeast from there and still isn't to the far side of the area.