Barnstable Town Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Barnstable Town: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Barnstable Town spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 154 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Barnstable Town holds about 0.7% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Barnstable Town would save about 62 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,914 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)
Barnstable Town	18.5 min	37.0 min	154 hrs/yr	$4,784	1,837
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.

Barnstable Town Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.5 minutes to get to work in Barnstable Town. That's 17% 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 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Barnstable Town

• Car: 83.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 12.3%
• Walked: 1.8%
• Public Transportation: 1.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.5%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Taxi: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 22% more common in Barnstable Town than the Massachusetts average (83.0% vs 68.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Barnstable Town: 4.7 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.4% vs 6.5%).

Commute Mode Trends in Barnstable Town, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Barnstable 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle
2009	90.9%	3.5%	2.5%	1.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%
2010	90.8%	3.6%	2.7%	1.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2011	91.5%	4.0%	2.4%	1.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	90.4%	4.8%	2.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	89.5%	5.0%	2.7%	1.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2014	89.8%	4.7%	2.3%	2.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2015	89.9%	5.4%	2.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2016	89.4%	5.7%	2.5%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	89.1%	6.1%	2.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2018	88.2%	6.8%	2.9%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2019	87.2%	7.4%	2.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2020	86.6%	8.3%	2.8%	1.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2021	84.5%	10.0%	3.3%	1.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2022	84.0%	10.3%	3.2%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2023	84.2%	11.0%	1.6%	1.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2024	83.0%	12.3%	1.8%	1.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 90.9% in 2009 to 83.0% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Barnstable Town: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 8.8 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.5% to 1.8% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Barnstable Town

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Barnstable Town?

The bars show when commuters in Barnstable 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 Barnstable Town2.6% Massachusetts3.7%	2.6%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Barnstable Town1.0% Massachusetts3.3%	1.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Barnstable Town1.3% Massachusetts4.1%	1.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Barnstable Town9.1% Massachusetts8.4%	9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Barnstable Town9.8% Massachusetts9.5%	9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Barnstable Town15.4% Massachusetts14.3%	15.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Barnstable Town16.4% Massachusetts11.7%	16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Barnstable Town13.3% Massachusetts13.5%	13.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Barnstable Town7.0% Massachusetts7.1%	7.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Barnstable Town8.2% Massachusetts7.7%	8.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Barnstable Town4.6% Massachusetts3.2%	4.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Barnstable Town1.6% Massachusetts1.5%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Barnstable Town4.5% Massachusetts7.1%	4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Barnstable Town5.1% Massachusetts4.9%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Barnstable Town is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across Massachusetts. Early starts are less common than in Massachusetts: 4.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Massachusetts: 54.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Barnstable 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 Barnstable 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 Barnstable 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	Barnstable Town	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:56 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:56 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:54 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:56 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:57 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:59 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:54 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Barnstable Town were on the road by 7:50 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:54 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Barnstable Town now leave 12 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 Barnstable Town has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Barnstable Town's commute time compare?

Metric	Barnstable Town	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.5 min	25.6 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	12.3%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Barnstable Town is 18.5 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

1.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau