Brockton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Brockton, 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 Brockton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brockton spend about 55 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 229 hours, about 9.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Brockton holds about 1.5% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 1.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brockton would save about 92 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,842 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)
Brockton	27.5 min	55.0 min	229 hrs/yr	$7,105	2,699
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.

Brockton Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.5 minutes to get to work in Brockton. That's 23% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brockton

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Brockton: 4.7 times more than the Massachusetts average (0.3% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 22% more common in Brockton than the Massachusetts average (83.1% vs 68.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Brockton: 3.0 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.4% vs 4.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Brockton: 5.4 times more than the Massachusetts average (2.4% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Brockton: 43.0 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Brockton: just 1.4%, 3.6 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Brockton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brockton 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	Taxi	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	89.8%	1.4%	5.7%	0.2%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	88.7%	1.3%	6.6%	0.3%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	87.9%	1.7%	6.5%	0.3%	2.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	88.8%	1.3%	6.1%	0.2%	2.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	87.9%	1.6%	6.7%	0.3%	2.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	88.2%	1.8%	6.4%	0.1%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	87.4%	2.1%	6.7%	0.1%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	88.2%	1.8%	6.5%	0.1%	2.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	86.6%	2.0%	7.5%	0.1%	1.9%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	86.2%	2.0%	7.0%	0.1%	2.4%	2.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	85.7%	1.8%	7.2%	0.1%	2.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	85.9%	2.6%	6.5%	0.5%	1.9%	2.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	84.8%	4.6%	5.7%	0.9%	1.6%	2.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	85.0%	5.5%	4.8%	1.2%	1.4%	2.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	84.3%	6.3%	5.0%	1.2%	1.4%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	83.1%	6.9%	4.7%	2.4%	1.4%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 89.8% in 2009 to 83.1% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brockton: its share of workers rose from 1.4% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 5.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.7% to 4.7% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Brockton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brockton?

The bars show when commuters in Brockton 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		7.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		12.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brockton is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 18.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 38.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.3%) 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 Brockton, 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 Brockton 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 Brockton 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	Brockton	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:25 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brockton were on the road by 7:26 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Brockton now leave 11 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 Brockton has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Brockton's commute time compare?

Metric	Brockton	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.5 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	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.7%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brockton is 27.5 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

4.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brockton, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Brockton, MA is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 105,376 residents against a local median of 34,885. Where Brockton, MA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 54% below the local median of 15.1% at 6.9%.

The cities themselves sit within 5.6% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Brockton, MA, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Brockton, MA has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Brockton, MA	105,376	27.5 min #1/4	6.9% #4/4	7:26 AM #1/4
Randolph Town, MA	34,885	32.8 min	15.1%	7:40 AM
Bridgewater Town, MA	28,458	30.4 min	12.7%	7:51 AM
Braintree Town, MA	38,939	30.9 min	18.2%	7:38 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brockton, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 229 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,105 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Brockton, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.