Franklin Town Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Franklin 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 Franklin Town: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Franklin Town spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.6 minutes.

Franklin Town holds about 0.5% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Franklin Town would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,225 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)
Franklin Town	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,063	2,722
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.

Franklin Town Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Franklin Town. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Franklin Town

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

Biking is essentially absent in Franklin Town, versus 0.8% in Massachusetts.

Commute Mode Trends in Franklin Town, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Franklin 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.9%	6.2%	6.1%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	84.6%	6.7%	7.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	85.6%	5.6%	6.4%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	84.0%	5.5%	8.2%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	82.8%	5.6%	9.0%	2.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	82.3%	5.7%	8.7%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	81.5%	6.6%	8.3%	2.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	81.1%	6.8%	8.2%	2.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	82.6%	7.1%	6.8%	2.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	83.7%	7.9%	5.6%	1.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	83.4%	8.8%	5.3%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	81.1%	11.6%	4.6%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	77.3%	16.3%	3.7%	1.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	74.9%	19.1%	2.7%	1.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	71.9%	21.5%	3.3%	1.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.6%	22.1%	3.0%	1.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 85.9% in 2009 to 71.6% in 2024, down 14.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Franklin Town: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 22.1% in 2024, up 15.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 6.1% to 3.0% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.8% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Franklin Town

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Franklin Town?

The bars show when commuters in Franklin 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		2.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		10.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Franklin Town is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are about as common as in Massachusetts: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Massachusetts's: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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 Franklin 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	Franklin Town	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:36 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:46 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Franklin Town were on the road by 7:47 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Franklin Town now leave 9 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 Franklin Town has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Franklin Town in the whole series.

How does Franklin Town's commute time compare?

Metric	Franklin Town	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	22.1%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.0%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Franklin Town is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

3.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Franklin Town, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Franklin Town, MA	33,154	31.2 min #3/3	22.1% #1/3	7:47 AM #3/3
Milford, MA	24,865	31.0 min	13.2%	7:14 AM
Woonsocket, RI	43,521	25.8 min	6.4%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Franklin Town, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 260 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,063 at a typical national wage. That's 22% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Franklin Town, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Franklin Town, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.