Norwich Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Norwich, 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 Norwich: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Norwich spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 184 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Connecticut average of 22.1 minutes each way.

Norwich holds about 1.0% of Connecticut's population and accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Norwich would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,284 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)
Norwich	22.1 min	44.2 min	184 hrs/yr	$5,710	1,943
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.

Norwich Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.1 minutes to get to work in Norwich. That's 1% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Norwich

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

Commute Mode Trends in Norwich, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Norwich 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	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.4%	2.0%	5.0%	2.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.5%
2010	88.9%	2.0%	6.7%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2011	89.9%	2.0%	6.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	89.0%	2.3%	6.0%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	90.0%	2.1%	5.2%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	90.5%	2.1%	4.2%	2.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	91.1%	1.9%	3.5%	2.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	92.6%	1.6%	2.7%	2.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	92.9%	1.5%	3.0%	2.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	93.9%	1.3%	2.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	1.3%	2.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	92.7%	3.2%	1.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	91.7%	4.5%	1.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	90.6%	5.2%	0.9%	1.0%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	89.2%	6.7%	1.2%	0.8%	1.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	87.5%	7.4%	2.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.6%	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 2018 at 93.9%. Overall it fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 87.5% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Norwich: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 7.4% in 2024, up 5.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.0% to 2.3% of workers (down 2.7 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Norwich

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Norwich?

The bars show when commuters in Norwich 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		12.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		12.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Norwich is 4:00-11:59 PM, when 12.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 5.4% across Connecticut. Early starts are more common than in Connecticut: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Connecticut: 38.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (34.3%) 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 Norwich, 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 Norwich 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 Norwich 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	Norwich	Connecticut	United States
2009	8:07 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:06 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:09 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:10 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:10 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:10 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:53 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:49 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:52 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Norwich were on the road by 7:50 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:07 AM). That goes against the trend across Connecticut, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Norwich now leave 12 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Norwich's commute time compare?

Metric	Norwich	Connecticut	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.1 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.4%	16.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	3.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Norwich is about the same as in Connecticut.

2.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in Connecticut. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Connecticut.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Norwich, Connecticut.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Norwich, Connecticut?

Commuters here spend an estimated 184 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,710 at a typical national wage.

When is rush hour worst in Norwich, Connecticut?

Traffic peaks between 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM in Norwich, Connecticut. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.