Beverly Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Beverly, Massachusetts: 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 Beverly: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beverly spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 195 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.1 minutes.

Beverly holds about 0.6% of Massachusetts's population and accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Beverly would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,421 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)
Beverly	23.4 min	46.9 min	195 hrs/yr	$6,053	3,721
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.

Beverly Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.4 minutes to get to work in Beverly. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beverly

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

Biking is unusually rare in Beverly: 5.5 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beverly, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beverly 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	83.0%	3.5%	8.1%	4.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	83.2%	3.6%	7.1%	5.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	81.7%	4.4%	7.0%	6.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	81.5%	5.1%	6.6%	6.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	81.1%	5.2%	6.5%	6.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	81.2%	5.4%	6.0%	6.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2015	80.3%	6.5%	7.4%	4.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%
2016	80.1%	6.1%	7.9%	4.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%
2017	79.2%	6.3%	8.4%	5.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	78.4%	5.7%	9.1%	5.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2019	77.7%	5.5%	10.0%	5.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	73.5%	9.5%	9.4%	5.8%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	70.9%	13.4%	7.5%	5.9%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	68.3%	16.7%	6.9%	5.8%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	66.4%	19.0%	7.1%	5.0%	1.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	65.5%	22.3%	5.3%	4.7%	1.7%	0.3%	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 2010 at 83.2%. Overall it fell from 83.0% in 2009 to 65.5% in 2024, down 17.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Beverly: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 22.3% in 2024, up 18.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.1% to 5.3% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 6.6% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 4.7%.

Commute Start Times in Beverly

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beverly?

The bars show when commuters in Beverly 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Beverly is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.5% across Massachusetts. Early starts are less common than in Massachusetts: 8.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Massachusetts: 53.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Beverly, 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 Beverly 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 Beverly 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Beverly	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:45 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:53 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beverly were on the road by 7:53 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Beverly now leave 15 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 Beverly has moved 9 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Beverly in the whole series.

How does Beverly's commute time compare?

Metric	Beverly	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.4 min	25.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	22.3%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.7%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	5.3%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beverly is 23.4 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

5.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 4.7% commute by walking, higher than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Beverly, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Beverly, MA is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 42,584 residents against a local median of 28,103. Beverly, MA sits close to the middle of its own neighbourhood. No measure below is more than 15% off the local median, so the choice between these cities turns on things this data does not capture.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 6% above the local median at 22.3% against 21.0%. Beverly, MA has the 2nd highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Beverly, MA	42,584	23.4 min #3/4	22.3% #2/4	7:53 AM #3/4
Salem, MA	43,365	21.9 min	21.0%	7:53 AM
Marblehead, MA	20,308	30.8 min	34.0%	7:52 AM
Danvers, MA	28,103	22.7 min	19.3%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Is commuting expensive in Beverly, Massachusetts?

Commuters here spend an estimated 195 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,053 at a typical national wage. That's 8% less than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Beverly, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Beverly, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.