Hammond Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hammond, Indiana: 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 Hammond: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hammond spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Indiana average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Hammond holds about 1.1% of Indiana's population but accounts for roughly 1.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hammond would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,305 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)
Hammond	22.3 min	44.6 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,763	2,393
Indiana	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,455	1,308
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.

Hammond Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Hammond. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hammond

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Hammond: 439.8 times less than the Indiana average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hammond, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hammond 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	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.2%	1.1%	2.9%	4.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	90.6%	1.0%	2.6%	4.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	90.3%	1.3%	2.4%	4.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	91.0%	1.4%	2.4%	4.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.7%	1.4%	2.2%	3.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.3%	1.6%	2.4%	3.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.5%	1.5%	2.6%	3.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.5%	1.5%	2.5%	3.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	92.7%	1.2%	2.4%	3.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	91.7%	1.6%	2.5%	3.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	90.8%	1.8%	2.6%	3.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.2%	2.7%	2.3%	3.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	90.6%	3.5%	2.1%	2.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	88.7%	5.3%	2.2%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	88.2%	6.0%	2.4%	2.0%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	87.7%	6.9%	2.3%	1.8%	0.8%	0.4%	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 92.7%. Overall it fell from 90.2% in 2009 to 87.7% in 2024, down 2.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hammond: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.8% to 1.8% of workers (down 3.0 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Hammond

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hammond?

The bars show when commuters in Hammond 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 Indiana for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		8.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.4%

Hammond Indiana Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Hammond is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Indiana. Early starts are more common than in Indiana: 21.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Indiana: 33.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.7% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.7%) 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 Hammond, 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 Hammond 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 Hammond next to Indiana 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	Hammond	Indiana	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:28 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hammond were on the road by 7:32 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Indiana, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Hammond now leave 6 minutes 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 Hammond has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Hammond's commute time compare?

Metric	Hammond	Indiana	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 min	21.1 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	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	10.7%	15.0%
Walked	2.3%	1.9%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	0.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hammond is 22.3 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Indiana.

1.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.6% in Indiana. 2.3% commute by walking, higher than the 1.9% in Indiana.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hammond, IN Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Hammond, IN is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 76,072 residents against a local median of 24,991. The measure that sets Hammond, IN apart most is work from home: 6.9%, 24% below the local median of 9.1%.

The cities themselves spread 8.7% on work from home, so Hammond, IN sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Hammond, IN has the 3rd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hammond, IN	76,072	22.3 min #2/4	6.9% #3/4	7:31 AM #2/4
East Chicago, IN	24,991	18.3 min	4.3%	7:30 AM
Calumet City, IL	34,245	31.5 min	9.1%	8:03 AM
Munster, IN	23,727	23.8 min	13.0%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hammond, Indiana.

Is living in Hammond, Indiana good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,763 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Indiana commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Hammond, Indiana?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Hammond, Indiana. 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.