Milford Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Milford, 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 Milford: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Milford spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 258 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 21% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.4 minutes.

Milford holds about 0.4% of Massachusetts's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Milford would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,204 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)
Milford	31.0 min	62.0 min	258 hrs/yr	$8,009	3,172
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.

Milford Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.0 minutes to get to work in Milford. That's 38% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM, followed by 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Milford

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

Walking is unusually rare in Milford: 3.8 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.1% vs 4.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Milford: 9.8 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.7% vs 6.5%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Milford: 7.5 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Milford: just 1.2%, 4.1 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Milford, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Milford 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	1.6%	1.1%	3.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	2.0%	0.8%	2.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	92.7%	2.1%	1.1%	1.7%	1.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	92.1%	2.2%	1.4%	1.4%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2013	91.0%	3.1%	1.4%	1.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	90.7%	3.3%	1.5%	2.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	90.3%	3.3%	1.8%	2.2%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	90.3%	3.4%	2.0%	2.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	88.9%	4.9%	2.0%	2.1%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	90.1%	4.7%	2.3%	0.8%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.9%	4.8%	3.4%	1.5%	1.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	85.4%	6.5%	4.5%	1.6%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	81.5%	9.0%	6.0%	1.6%	1.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	79.7%	9.9%	7.6%	1.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	74.0%	11.8%	11.2%	1.8%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.2%	13.2%	12.7%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	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 2010 at 93.0%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 72.2% in 2024, down 20.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Milford: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 13.2% in 2024, up 11.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 1.1% of workers (down 2.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 2.1% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Milford

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Milford?

The bars show when commuters in Milford 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		1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		11.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		16.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Milford is 6:00-6:29 AM, when 16.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.4% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 17.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 41.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.0%) 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 Milford, 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 Milford 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 Milford 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	Milford	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:26 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:29 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:28 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:24 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:24 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:15 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Milford were on the road by 7:15 AM, 8 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:23 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Milford now leave 23 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 Milford has moved 13 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Milford in the whole series.

How does Milford's commute time compare?

Metric	Milford	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.0 min	25.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	05:00 AM – 05:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.2%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Milford is 31.0 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Milford, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Milford, MA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Milford, MA	24,865	31.0 min #1/2	13.2% #2/2	7:14 AM #1/2
Franklin Town, MA	33,154	31.2 min	22.1%	7:47 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Milford, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 258 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,009 at a typical national wage. That's 21% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Milford, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM in Milford, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 05:00 AM – 05:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Milford, Massachusetts?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.7% of commuters use it versus 6.5% in Massachusetts, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.