Juneau Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Juneau, Alaska: 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 Juneau: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Juneau spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Alaska average of 16.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Juneau holds about 4.3% of Alaska's population but accounts for roughly 3.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Juneau would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,389 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)
Juneau	13.4 min	26.9 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,473	1,156
Alaska	16.1 min	32.2 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,157	583
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.

Juneau Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.4 minutes to get to work in Juneau. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Juneau

Commute Mode Trends in Juneau, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Juneau 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	77.8%	3.7%	9.0%	5.7%	1.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.5%
2010	77.2%	4.1%	9.0%	5.5%	1.8%	2.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	79.9%	2.9%	8.3%	5.4%	1.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.5%
2012	81.6%	2.7%	8.1%	4.8%	1.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	82.4%	2.7%	7.2%	5.2%	1.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	83.0%	2.9%	6.7%	4.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	84.8%	2.8%	5.8%	4.4%	0.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	83.6%	3.1%	6.9%	4.0%	1.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	81.7%	4.3%	6.4%	5.3%	0.9%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	82.3%	4.3%	6.3%	5.0%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	81.9%	4.9%	6.7%	4.4%	1.0%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	79.4%	7.7%	7.2%	3.4%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	79.1%	9.1%	6.0%	3.6%	1.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	78.8%	10.4%	5.3%	2.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%
2023	76.9%	12.4%	6.3%	2.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2024	76.1%	13.0%	6.5%	2.3%	1.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 84.8%. Overall it fell from 77.8% in 2009 to 76.1% in 2024, down 1.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Juneau: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 13.0% in 2024, up 9.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.7% to 2.3% of workers (down 3.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Juneau

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Juneau?

The bars show when commuters in Juneau 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 Alaska for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		24.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

Juneau Alaska Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Juneau is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 24.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Alaska. Early starts are less common than in Alaska: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Alaska: 59.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.5%) 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 Juneau, 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 Juneau 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 Juneau next to Alaska 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	Juneau	Alaska	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:40 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Juneau were on the road by 7:44 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Alaska, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Juneau now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Juneau's commute time compare?

Metric	Juneau	Alaska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.4 min	16.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	13.0%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	6.5%	7.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Juneau is 13.4 minutes, shorter than the 16.1 minutes in Alaska.

2.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Alaska. 6.5% commute by walking, lower than the 7.2% in Alaska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Juneau, Alaska.

Is commuting expensive in Juneau, Alaska?

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,473 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Alaska commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Juneau, Alaska?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Juneau, Alaska. 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.

Is Juneau, Alaska a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 13.0% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Juneau would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,389 at the same national wage assumption used above.