East Hartford Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in East Hartford, Connecticut: 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 East Hartford: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in East Hartford spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 173 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% less time on the road than the Connecticut average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.3 minutes.

East Hartford holds about 1.4% of Connecticut's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in East Hartford would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,150 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)
East Hartford	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,376	2,036
Connecticut	22.1 min	44.2 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,704	1,748
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.

East Hartford Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.8 minutes to get to work in East Hartford. That's 7% 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 10.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in East Hartford

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in East Hartford, versus 0.1% in Connecticut.

Walking is unusually rare in East Hartford: 4.5 times less than the Connecticut average (0.5% vs 2.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in East Hartford: just 0.7%, 3.8 times below the Connecticut average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in East Hartford, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in East Hartford 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	Other	Taxi	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	89.9%	2.5%	5.6%	0.3%	0.0%	1.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	89.1%	2.3%	6.2%	0.4%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2011	86.9%	2.4%	7.5%	0.4%	0.1%	2.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	86.6%	1.8%	8.0%	0.6%	0.1%	2.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2013	87.3%	1.8%	8.1%	0.7%	0.0%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	86.9%	1.9%	7.7%	0.7%	0.1%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2015	87.4%	1.8%	7.1%	0.8%	0.0%	2.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2016	88.1%	1.6%	6.2%	1.2%	0.1%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	90.3%	1.5%	4.7%	1.1%	0.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	89.6%	1.9%	5.0%	1.1%	0.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	90.0%	1.8%	4.8%	1.7%	0.1%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	87.4%	4.2%	5.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	86.4%	6.8%	4.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	85.2%	8.7%	4.0%	0.9%	0.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	83.9%	9.9%	3.6%	1.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	83.4%	10.2%	3.5%	1.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	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 90.3%. Overall it fell from 89.9% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, down 6.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in East Hartford: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 10.2% in 2024, up 7.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 3.5% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 2.4% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in East Hartford

What Time Do People Leave for Work in East Hartford?

The bars show when commuters in East Hartford 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 Connecticut for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		6.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.4%

East Hartford Connecticut Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in East Hartford is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Connecticut. Early starts are more common than in Connecticut: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Connecticut's: 47.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.6%) 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 East Hartford, 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 East Hartford 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 East Hartford next to Connecticut 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	East Hartford	Connecticut	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:50 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:37 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in East Hartford were on the road by 7:37 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Connecticut, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in East Hartford now leave 1 minute 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 East Hartford has moved 4 minutes later.

How does East Hartford's commute time compare?

Metric	East Hartford	Connecticut	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.8 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.2%	16.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.5%	3.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in East Hartford is 20.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Connecticut.

3.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 3.2% in Connecticut. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Connecticut.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

East Hartford, CT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

East Hartford, CT is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 47,154 residents against a local median of 28,853. East Hartford, CT sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 3% below the local median at 10.2% against 10.4%. East Hartford, CT has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
East Hartford, CT	47,154	20.8 min #4/4	10.2% #3/4	7:37 AM #1/4
Hartford, CT	116,992	20.4 min	9.7%	8:04 AM
Wethersfield, CT	24,159	18.6 min	17.0%	7:53 AM
Manchester, CT	28,853	20.7 min	10.4%	7:47 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Is living in East Hartford, Connecticut good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 173 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,376 at a typical national wage. That's 6% less than the typical Connecticut commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in East Hartford, Connecticut?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in East Hartford, Connecticut. 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.