Naugatuck Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Naugatuck, 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 Naugatuck: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Naugatuck spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 229 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% more time on the road than the Connecticut average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Naugatuck holds about 1.0% of Connecticut's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Naugatuck would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,838 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)
Naugatuck	27.5 min	54.9 min	229 hrs/yr	$7,096	2,080
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.

Naugatuck Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.5 minutes to get to work in Naugatuck. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Naugatuck

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Naugatuck: 4.4 times more than the Connecticut average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Naugatuck: 7.2 times less than the Connecticut average (0.3% vs 2.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Naugatuck: just 0.4%, 6.0 times below the Connecticut average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Naugatuck, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Naugatuck 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.8%	1.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	96.6%	1.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	96.7%	1.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	96.1%	2.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	94.9%	3.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	94.5%	3.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	94.4%	4.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.6%	3.9%	1.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	92.9%	4.1%	1.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.6%	3.4%	1.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.6%	3.6%	1.1%	0.1%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.2%	6.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.1%	8.7%	0.4%	0.7%	0.4%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	85.5%	10.3%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	1.8%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	82.9%	12.3%	2.1%	1.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	80.2%	15.0%	2.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 96.7%. Overall it fell from 95.8% in 2009 to 80.2% in 2024, down 15.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Naugatuck: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 15.0% in 2024, up 13.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 1.8% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 0.3%.

Commute Start Times in Naugatuck

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Naugatuck?

The bars show when commuters in Naugatuck 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Naugatuck is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Connecticut. Early starts are more common than in Connecticut: 14.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like Connecticut's: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Naugatuck, 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 Naugatuck 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 Naugatuck 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	Naugatuck	Connecticut	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Naugatuck were on the road by 7:39 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:30 AM). The shift is sharper than across Connecticut, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Naugatuck now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Naugatuck has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Naugatuck's commute time compare?

Metric	Naugatuck	Connecticut	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.5 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.0%	16.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.5%	3.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Naugatuck is 27.5 minutes, longer than the 22.1 minutes in Connecticut.

2.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in Connecticut. 0.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Connecticut.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Naugatuck, CT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Naugatuck, CT compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Naugatuck, CT	31,800	27.5 min #2/2	15.0% #1/2	7:39 AM #2/2
Waterbury, CT	110,409	21.8 min	8.0%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 229 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,096 at a typical national wage. That's 24% more than the typical Connecticut commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.