Everett Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Everett, 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 Everett: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Everett spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 273 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 28% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.2 minutes.

Everett holds about 0.7% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Everett would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,385 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)
Everett	32.8 min	65.5 min	273 hrs/yr	$8,462	4,756
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.

Everett Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.8 minutes to get to work in Everett. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 10.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Everett

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Everett: 3.1 times more than the Massachusetts average (1.4% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Everett, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Everett 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	70.6%	22.0%	1.6%	2.9%	1.9%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2010	70.5%	21.8%	1.2%	3.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2011	68.6%	22.4%	1.6%	4.3%	2.0%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2012	68.2%	22.7%	1.4%	4.1%	2.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.1%
2013	68.7%	23.5%	1.3%	4.1%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	68.2%	23.8%	1.6%	3.5%	1.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%
2015	68.3%	23.4%	2.4%	3.4%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%
2016	68.3%	23.6%	2.6%	3.1%	1.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%
2017	69.4%	22.9%	2.8%	3.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.6%	0.3%
2018	67.5%	23.9%	3.2%	3.4%	0.8%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%
2019	68.2%	23.6%	2.7%	3.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	65.0%	23.0%	5.6%	4.3%	1.1%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2021	67.1%	19.6%	6.1%	4.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2022	64.8%	19.3%	7.3%	4.5%	2.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%
2023	64.8%	17.4%	8.6%	4.6%	2.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%
2024	64.6%	16.2%	10.5%	3.5%	2.9%	1.4%	0.9%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 70.6% in 2009 to 64.6% in 2024, down 6.0 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Everett: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 10.5% in 2024, up 8.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 22.0% to 16.2% of workers (down 5.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.7% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 3.5%.

Commute Start Times in Everett

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Everett?

The bars show when commuters in Everett 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		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		11.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Everett is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 45.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Everett, 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 Everett 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 Everett 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	Everett	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 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	7:36 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:29 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Everett were on the road by 7:26 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:30 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Everett now leave 12 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 Everett has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Everett in the whole series.

How does Everett's commute time compare?

Metric	Everett	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.5%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.5%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	16.2%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Everett is 32.8 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

16.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 3.5% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Everett, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Everett, MA is the 4th largest of the 6 cities compared here, 49,993 residents against a local median of 59,237. Where Everett, MA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 61% below the local median of 26.8% at 10.5%.

The cities themselves spread 20.9% on work from home, so Everett, MA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Everett, MA has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Everett, MA	49,993	32.8 min #5/6	10.5% #5/6	7:26 AM #2/6
Malden, MA	66,048	32.4 min	19.8%	8:03 AM
Chelsea, MA	39,880	30.9 min	10.4%	7:12 AM
Melrose, MA	29,648	32.9 min	29.6%	7:44 AM
Somerville, MA	81,027	31.2 min	31.4%	8:13 AM
Medford, MA	59,237	30.1 min	26.8%	8:02 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Everett, Massachusetts.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Everett, Massachusetts?

Commuters here spend an estimated 273 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,462 at a typical national wage. That's 28% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Everett, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Everett, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.