Braintree Town Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Braintree Town, 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 Braintree Town: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Braintree Town spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 258 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Braintree Town holds about 0.6% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Braintree Town would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,197 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)
Braintree Town	30.9 min	61.9 min	258 hrs/yr	$7,994	3,892
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.

Braintree Town Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.9 minutes to get to work in Braintree Town. That's 38% longer 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 18.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Braintree Town

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Braintree Town, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Braintree 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.

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	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.4%	1.8%	11.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	83.1%	1.8%	13.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	83.0%	2.2%	13.1%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	82.9%	2.1%	13.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	81.9%	2.3%	13.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	82.4%	2.2%	13.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2015	82.5%	2.7%	12.9%	0.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	81.8%	3.2%	13.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	80.4%	3.4%	14.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	79.2%	4.3%	14.0%	1.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	77.3%	4.7%	15.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	74.4%	8.0%	14.8%	2.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	71.6%	12.5%	12.4%	2.3%	0.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	70.2%	15.2%	10.9%	2.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	70.0%	16.9%	9.4%	2.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	69.5%	18.2%	8.7%	2.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 84.4% in 2009 to 69.5% in 2024, down 14.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Braintree Town: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 18.2% in 2024, up 16.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 11.9% to 8.7% of workers (down 3.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Braintree Town

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Braintree Town?

The bars show when commuters in Braintree 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Braintree Town is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 46.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.5%) 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 Braintree 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 Braintree 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 Braintree 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.

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

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Braintree Town	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:42 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	7:47 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:44 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Braintree Town were on the road by 7:38 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:42 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Braintree Town now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Braintree Town in the whole series.

How does Braintree Town's commute time compare?

Metric	Braintree Town	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.9 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	18.2%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.7%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Braintree Town is 30.9 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

8.7% commute by public transit, higher than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 2.5% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Braintree Town, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Braintree Town, MA is the 3rd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 38,939 residents against a local median of 46,694. Nothing separates Braintree Town, MA sharply from the cities around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.

The largest of those small differences is work from home, 7% below the local median at 18.2% against 19.7%. Braintree Town, MA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Braintree Town, MA	38,939	30.9 min #3/5	18.2% #3/5	7:38 AM #2/5
Weymouth Town, MA	58,503	30.6 min	18.1%	7:28 AM
Randolph Town, MA	34,885	32.8 min	15.1%	7:40 AM
Quincy, MA	102,031	32.5 min	21.2%	7:58 AM
Milton, MA	28,602	30.4 min	29.7%	7:57 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Braintree Town, Massachusetts.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Braintree Town, Massachusetts?

Commuters here spend an estimated 258 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,994 at a typical national wage. That's 21% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Braintree Town, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Braintree Town, Massachusetts. 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.