Bridgewater Town Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater Town: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bridgewater Town spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 253 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Bridgewater Town holds about 0.4% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bridgewater Town would save about 101 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,140 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)
Bridgewater Town	30.4 min	60.8 min	253 hrs/yr	$7,851	2,084
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.

Bridgewater Town Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.4 minutes to get to work in Bridgewater Town. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bridgewater Town

Public transit is unusually rare in Bridgewater Town: 4.6 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.4% vs 6.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Bridgewater Town: 5.1 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bridgewater Town, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bridgewater 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	86.8%	3.0%	4.2%	5.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	86.7%	3.3%	4.0%	5.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	85.3%	3.9%	5.2%	5.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	84.7%	3.5%	6.2%	4.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	84.0%	4.3%	6.7%	4.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	84.8%	4.2%	6.3%	4.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	84.8%	4.0%	6.6%	4.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	85.9%	3.6%	6.3%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	85.4%	4.5%	6.1%	3.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	85.7%	4.5%	5.4%	3.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	84.8%	4.5%	6.0%	3.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	84.3%	5.5%	6.5%	2.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	82.5%	8.2%	5.9%	2.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	81.0%	10.2%	6.0%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	79.6%	11.9%	5.5%	2.0%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	78.8%	12.7%	5.6%	1.4%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 86.8% in 2009 to 78.8% in 2024, down 8.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bridgewater Town: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 12.7% in 2024, up 9.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.6% to 1.4% of workers (down 4.2 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 6.7% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 5.6%.

Commute Start Times in Bridgewater Town

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bridgewater Town?

The bars show when commuters in Bridgewater 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		1.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Bridgewater Town is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.5% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 12.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 43.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.5%) 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 Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater 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	Bridgewater Town	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:00 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:59 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:55 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:56 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:44 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bridgewater Town were on the road by 7:51 AM, 18 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Bridgewater Town now leave 14 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 Bridgewater Town has moved 7 minutes later.

How does Bridgewater Town's commute time compare?

Metric	Bridgewater Town	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.7%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	5.6%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.4%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bridgewater Town is 30.4 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

1.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 5.6% commute by walking, higher than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bridgewater Town, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Bridgewater Town, MA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bridgewater Town, MA	28,458	30.4 min #3/3	12.7% #1/3	7:51 AM #3/3
Brockton, MA	105,376	27.5 min	6.9%	7:26 AM
Taunton, MA	60,438	27.7 min	8.0%	7:32 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bridgewater Town, Massachusetts.

Is living in Bridgewater Town, Massachusetts good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 253 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,851 at a typical national wage. That's 19% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Bridgewater Town, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Bridgewater Town, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Bridgewater Town, Massachusetts?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.4% of commuters use it versus 6.5% in Massachusetts, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.