Newington Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Newington, 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 Newington: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Newington spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 6.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% less time on the road than the Connecticut average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Newington holds about 0.9% of Connecticut's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Newington would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,068 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)
Newington	20.0 min	40.0 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,169	2,004
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.

Newington Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.0 minutes to get to work in Newington. That's 11% 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 14.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Newington

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

Walking is unusually rare in Newington: 5.3 times less than the Connecticut average (0.4% vs 2.3%).

Biking is essentially absent in Newington, versus 0.2% in Connecticut.

Few people walk or bike to work in Newington: just 0.4%, 5.7 times below the Connecticut average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Newington, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Newington 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	95.1%	2.2%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.7%	1.6%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	94.6%	1.9%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	94.7%	1.5%	1.9%	0.5%	0.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.7%	1.9%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.3%	2.2%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	93.3%	2.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	93.2%	3.4%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	93.0%	4.0%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	92.8%	4.0%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	92.8%	4.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.0%	6.7%	1.4%	1.2%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	87.0%	9.7%	1.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.5%	11.5%	1.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.1%	13.0%	1.5%	1.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	81.4%	14.4%	1.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 95.7%. Overall it fell from 95.1% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 13.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Newington: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 14.4% in 2024, up 12.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Newington

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Newington?

The bars show when commuters in Newington 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		2.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Newington is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.6% across Connecticut. Early starts are less common than in Connecticut: 9.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Connecticut: 53.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.6%) 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 Newington, 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 Newington 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 Newington 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	Newington	Connecticut	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Newington were on the road by 7:51 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:47 AM). The shift is sharper than across Connecticut, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Newington now leave 13 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Newington has moved 18 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Newington in the whole series.

How does Newington's commute time compare?

Metric	Newington	Connecticut	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.0 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	14.4%	16.2%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	3.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Newington is 20.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Connecticut.

1.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in Connecticut. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Connecticut.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Newington, CT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Newington, CT is the 4th largest of the 5 cities compared here, 30,896 residents against a local median of 57,283. Nothing separates Newington, CT sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 8% above the local median at 14.4% against 13.4%. Newington, CT has the 3rd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Newington, CT	30,896	20.0 min #4/5	14.4% #3/5	7:51 AM #2/5
New Britain, CT	55,019	18.2 min	7.1%	7:41 AM
Wethersfield, CT	24,159	18.6 min	17.0%	7:53 AM
West Hartford, CT	59,547	18.9 min	22.2%	8:07 AM
Hartford, CT	116,992	20.4 min	9.7%	8:04 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Newington, Connecticut.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 167 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,169 at a typical national wage. That's 9% less than the typical Connecticut commuter spends.

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

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