Fall River Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Fall River: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fall River spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Fall River holds about 1.3% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 1.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Fall River would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,159 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)
Fall River	20.9 min	41.8 min	174 hrs/yr	$5,397	2,965
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.

Fall River Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in Fall River. That's 7% shorter 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 working from home. About 7.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Fall River

• Car: 86.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.1%
• Walked: 3.6%
• Public Transportation: 1.8% unusually low
• Other: 0.7%
• Taxi: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.2% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Fall River: 3.0 times more than the Massachusetts average (0.2% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 26% more common in Fall River than the Massachusetts average (86.0% vs 68.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Fall River: 3.5 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.8% vs 6.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Fall River: 29.2 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Fall River, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Fall River 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.1%	1.3%	3.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	92.7%	1.7%	2.9%	1.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2011	93.1%	1.6%	3.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	93.0%	1.4%	3.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	92.4%	1.8%	3.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	92.7%	1.9%	3.3%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	92.3%	1.8%	3.7%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	92.0%	1.8%	3.7%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	91.8%	2.0%	3.4%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	91.7%	1.9%	3.5%	1.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2019	91.7%	1.8%	3.9%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2020	90.1%	3.6%	3.7%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.6%	5.4%	3.5%	1.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	88.2%	6.0%	3.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	87.0%	6.5%	3.9%	1.3%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	86.0%	7.1%	3.6%	1.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.1% in 2009 to 86.0% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Fall River: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 7.1% in 2024, up 5.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

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

Commute Start Times in Fall River

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Fall River?

The bars show when commuters in Fall River 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	12:00-4:59 AM Fall River6.5% Massachusetts3.7%	6.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Fall River5.7% Massachusetts3.3%	5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Fall River3.7% Massachusetts4.1%	3.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Fall River11.1% Massachusetts8.4%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Fall River8.6% Massachusetts9.5%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Fall River13.9% Massachusetts14.3%	13.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Fall River9.9% Massachusetts11.7%	9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Fall River9.8% Massachusetts13.5%	9.8%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Fall River4.2% Massachusetts7.1%	4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Fall River5.0% Massachusetts7.7%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Fall River3.1% Massachusetts3.2%	3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Fall River1.7% Massachusetts1.5%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Fall River8.8% Massachusetts7.1%	8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Fall River7.9% Massachusetts4.9%	7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Fall River is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 15.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 42.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.6%) 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 Fall River, 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 Fall River 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 Fall River 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Fall River	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:32 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Fall River were on the road by 7:32 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Fall River now leave 6 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 Fall River has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Fall River's commute time compare?

Metric	Fall River	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.9 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.1%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.6%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.8%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Fall River is 20.9 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

1.8% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 3.6% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau