Agawam Town Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Agawam Town: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Agawam Town spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.

Agawam Town holds about 0.4% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Agawam Town would save about 68 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,096 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)
Agawam Town	20.3 min	40.6 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,241	2,266
Massachusetts	25.6 min	51.1 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,603	2,164
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.

Agawam Town Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.3 minutes to get to work in Agawam Town. That's 9% 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 11.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Agawam Town

• Car: 87.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 11.0%
• Other: 0.9%
• Walked: 0.7% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Agawam Town, versus 0.1% in Massachusetts.

Driving is 28% more common in Agawam Town than the Massachusetts average (87.0% vs 68.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Agawam Town: 5.8 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.7% vs 4.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Agawam Town: 21.7 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.3% vs 6.5%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Agawam Town: 6.9 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Biking is essentially absent in Agawam Town, versus 0.8% in Massachusetts.

Few people walk or bike to work in Agawam Town: just 0.7%, 6.9 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Agawam Town, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Agawam Town 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.7%	2.0%	0.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	95.9%	1.9%	0.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	96.2%	1.5%	0.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	96.1%	1.5%	0.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	96.7%	1.9%	0.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	96.1%	2.1%	0.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	94.8%	2.5%	1.0%	1.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	94.3%	2.8%	1.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	93.7%	3.4%	1.2%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2018	94.4%	3.1%	1.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	92.2%	4.5%	1.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2020	91.0%	6.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2021	88.8%	8.9%	1.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.6%	9.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	10.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.0%	11.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2013 at 96.7% and lowest in 2023 at 86.6%. Overall it fell from 95.7% in 2009 to 87.0% in 2024, down 8.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Agawam Town: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 11.0% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.6% to 0.7% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Agawam Town

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Agawam Town?

The bars show when commuters in Agawam Town 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 Massachusetts for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Agawam Town4.6% Massachusetts3.7%	4.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Agawam Town2.5% Massachusetts3.3%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Agawam Town8.1% Massachusetts4.1%	8.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Agawam Town6.7% Massachusetts8.4%	6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Agawam Town11.8% Massachusetts9.5%	11.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Agawam Town17.4% Massachusetts14.3%	17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Agawam Town14.0% Massachusetts11.7%	14.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Agawam Town9.2% Massachusetts13.5%	9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Agawam Town6.8% Massachusetts7.1%	6.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Agawam Town5.4% Massachusetts7.7%	5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Agawam Town1.2% Massachusetts3.2%	1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Agawam Town2.3% Massachusetts1.5%	2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Agawam Town7.4% Massachusetts7.1%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Agawam Town2.5% Massachusetts4.9%	2.5%

Agawam Town Massachusetts Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Agawam Town is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Massachusetts: 52.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.8%) 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 Agawam Town, 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 Agawam Town 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 Agawam Town next to Massachusetts 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Agawam Town	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:29 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Agawam Town were on the road by 7:28 AM, 20 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:48 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Agawam Town now leave 10 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 Agawam Town has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Agawam Town's commute time compare?

Metric	Agawam Town	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.3 min	25.6 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	11.0%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Agawam Town is 20.3 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau