Leominster Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Leominster: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Leominster spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.8 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Leominster would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,250 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)
Leominster	21.8 min	43.6 min	181 hrs/yr	$5,626	2,238
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.

Leominster Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Leominster. That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Leominster

• Car: 85.7% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 10.9%
• Public Transportation: 1.5% unusually low
• Other: 1.2%
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Leominster: 29316.9 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 26% more common in Leominster than the Massachusetts average (85.7% vs 68.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Leominster: 9.4 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.4% vs 4.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Leominster: 4.2 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.5% vs 6.5%).

Biking is essentially absent in Leominster, versus 0.8% in Massachusetts.

Few people walk or bike to work in Leominster: just 0.4%, 11.3 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Leominster, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Leominster 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
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Walked
• Taxi
• Motorcycle
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	93.3%	2.5%	1.5%	0.1%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%
2010	93.0%	2.4%	1.6%	0.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	92.7%	3.1%	1.3%	0.3%	2.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	93.1%	2.7%	1.4%	0.3%	2.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.8%	2.7%	1.6%	0.2%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	93.1%	2.6%	1.4%	0.2%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	92.7%	2.7%	1.3%	0.4%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	92.1%	2.8%	1.3%	0.5%	2.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	91.0%	3.9%	1.1%	0.8%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	90.2%	4.7%	1.3%	1.0%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	90.7%	4.8%	1.1%	0.9%	1.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2020	89.5%	6.3%	1.7%	0.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	88.7%	8.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2022	87.3%	10.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2023	87.4%	10.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2024	85.7%	10.9%	1.5%	1.2%	0.4%	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 93.3% in 2009 to 85.7% in 2024, down 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Leominster: its share of workers rose from 2.5% in 2009 to 10.9% in 2024, up 8.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Leominster

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Leominster?

The bars show when commuters in Leominster 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 Leominster4.9% Massachusetts3.7%	4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Leominster2.6% Massachusetts3.3%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Leominster7.6% Massachusetts4.1%	7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Leominster8.1% Massachusetts8.4%	8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Leominster14.8% Massachusetts9.5%	14.8%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Leominster16.0% Massachusetts14.3%	16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Leominster10.8% Massachusetts11.7%	10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Leominster8.5% Massachusetts13.5%	8.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Leominster5.4% Massachusetts7.1%	5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Leominster5.7% Massachusetts7.7%	5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Leominster2.3% Massachusetts3.2%	2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Leominster0.2% Massachusetts1.5%	0.2%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Leominster6.2% Massachusetts7.1%	6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Leominster7.0% Massachusetts4.9%	7.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Leominster is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Massachusetts's: 50.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.4%) 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 Leominster, 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 Leominster 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 Leominster 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.

• Leominster
• Massachusetts
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Leominster	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:31 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:21 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:21 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Leominster were on the road by 7:23 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Leominster now leave 15 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 Leominster has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Leominster's commute time compare?

Metric	Leominster	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.9%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Leominster is 21.8 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau