Chicopee Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Chicopee, 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 Chicopee: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chicopee spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.3 minutes.

Chicopee holds about 0.8% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chicopee would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,882 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)
Chicopee	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,705	2,422
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.

Chicopee Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Chicopee. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chicopee

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

Driving is 28% more common in Chicopee than the Massachusetts average (87.3% vs 68.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Chicopee: 5.0 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.3% vs 6.5%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Chicopee, versus 0.4% in Massachusetts.

Biking is unusually rare in Chicopee: 19268.8 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chicopee, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chicopee 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	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.5%	1.5%	2.9%	0.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	93.4%	1.4%	2.6%	0.7%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	93.3%	1.9%	2.5%	0.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	93.0%	2.1%	2.8%	0.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	93.2%	1.8%	3.0%	0.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	93.6%	1.6%	2.6%	0.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	94.0%	1.8%	2.3%	0.3%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	94.0%	1.9%	2.2%	0.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	93.9%	1.9%	1.9%	0.5%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	93.9%	2.1%	2.0%	0.6%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	93.5%	2.8%	1.7%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	92.0%	4.3%	1.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2021	90.2%	5.6%	1.8%	0.8%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	89.7%	6.7%	1.4%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	89.3%	7.5%	1.2%	0.8%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	87.3%	8.0%	2.0%	1.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 94.0%. Overall it fell from 93.5% in 2009 to 87.3% in 2024, down 6.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chicopee: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.9% to 2.0% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Chicopee

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chicopee?

The bars show when commuters in Chicopee 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		5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		3.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chicopee is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 12.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.5% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 14.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Massachusetts's: 49.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Chicopee, 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 Chicopee 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 Chicopee 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	Chicopee	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chicopee were on the road by 7:39 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:43 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Chicopee now leave 2 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Chicopee's commute time compare?

Metric	Chicopee	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.0%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chicopee is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Chicopee, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Chicopee, MA is the 2nd largest of the 4 cities compared here, 55,293 residents against a local median of 37,770. Where Chicopee, MA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 23% below the local median of 10.4% at 8.0%.

The cities themselves spread 2.7% on work from home, so Chicopee, MA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Chicopee, MA has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Chicopee, MA	55,293	18.2 min #3/4	8.0% #4/4	7:39 AM #2/4
Springfield, MA	154,552	18.2 min	8.4%	7:51 AM
Holyoke, MA	37,770	18.6 min	11.1%	7:34 AM
West Springfield Town, MA	28,772	17.8 min	10.4%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Chicopee, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 152 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,705 at a typical national wage. That's 29% less than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Chicopee, 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.

How common is public transit use in Chicopee, Massachusetts?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.3% of commuters use it versus 6.5% in Massachusetts, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.