Wethersfield Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Wethersfield: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Wethersfield spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 155 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Connecticut average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.5 minutes.

Wethersfield holds about 0.7% of Connecticut's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Wethersfield would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,923 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)
Wethersfield	18.6 min	37.2 min	155 hrs/yr	$4,808	2,786
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.

Wethersfield Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.6 minutes to get to work in Wethersfield. That's 17% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Wethersfield

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Wethersfield: 4.5 times less than the Connecticut average (0.7% vs 3.2%).

Biking is unusually common in Wethersfield: 3.4 times more than the Connecticut average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Wethersfield, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Wethersfield 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	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.5%	3.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	2.2%	0.5%	0.5%
2010	92.4%	3.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.5%
2011	92.2%	3.4%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	2.3%	0.5%	0.3%
2012	93.2%	3.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2013	94.1%	2.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2014	93.7%	2.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%
2015	93.2%	3.1%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	93.2%	3.3%	1.8%	0.4%	0.1%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	92.7%	3.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	91.6%	4.7%	1.3%	1.2%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	4.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	90.1%	7.5%	0.3%	1.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	87.5%	10.0%	0.5%	1.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	83.0%	14.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	81.0%	15.8%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	78.5%	17.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 94.1%. Overall it fell from 91.5% in 2009 to 78.5% in 2024, down 13.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Wethersfield: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 17.0% in 2024, up 13.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.2% to 0.7% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Wethersfield

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Wethersfield?

The bars show when commuters in Wethersfield 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		1.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Wethersfield is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across Connecticut. Early starts are less common than in Connecticut: 8.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Connecticut: 54.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.6% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Wethersfield, 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 Wethersfield 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 Wethersfield 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	Wethersfield	Connecticut	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:52 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:50 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:55 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:59 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:03 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:01 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:00 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:53 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Wethersfield were on the road by 7:53 AM, 2 minutes later than in 2009 (7:51 AM). Connecticut followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Wethersfield now leave 15 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Wethersfield's commute time compare?

Metric	Wethersfield	Connecticut	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.6 min	22.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.0%	16.2%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	3.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Wethersfield is 18.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Connecticut.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.2% in Connecticut. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.3% in Connecticut.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Wethersfield, CT Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Wethersfield, CT is the smallest of the 5 cities compared here, 24,159 residents against a local median of 53,350. Where Wethersfield, CT breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 39% above the local median of 12.3% at 17.0%.

The cities themselves spread 12.5% on work from home, so Wethersfield, CT sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Wethersfield, CT has the 2nd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Wethersfield, CT	24,159	18.6 min #1/5	17.0% #2/5	7:53 AM #3/5
Newington, CT	30,896	20.0 min	14.4%	7:51 AM
Hartford, CT	116,992	20.4 min	9.7%	8:04 AM
East Hartford, CT	47,154	20.8 min	10.2%	7:37 AM
West Hartford, CT	59,547	18.9 min	22.2%	8:07 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Wethersfield, Connecticut.

Is commuting expensive in Wethersfield, Connecticut?

Commuters here spend an estimated 155 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,808 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Connecticut commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Wethersfield, Connecticut?

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

How common is public transit use in Wethersfield, Connecticut?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.7% of commuters use it versus 3.2% in Connecticut, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.