Peabody Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Peabody, 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 Peabody: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Peabody spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.0 minutes.

Peabody holds about 0.8% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Peabody would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,332 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)
Peabody	22.6 min	45.1 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,831	4,094
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.

Peabody Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Peabody. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Peabody

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

Driving is 24% more common in Peabody than the Massachusetts average (84.4% vs 68.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Peabody: 4.1 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.0% vs 4.1%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Peabody: 3.4 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.9% vs 6.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Peabody: 5.9 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Peabody: just 1.1%, 4.3 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Peabody, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Peabody 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.6%	2.2%	2.4%	0.4%	1.8%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2010	93.0%	2.3%	2.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	92.6%	2.8%	2.3%	0.2%	1.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	92.1%	3.1%	2.2%	0.4%	1.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	91.4%	3.6%	2.2%	0.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	90.1%	4.2%	2.4%	1.0%	1.8%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	89.6%	3.8%	2.9%	0.9%	2.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	89.4%	3.7%	3.1%	1.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	88.9%	3.1%	3.6%	1.2%	1.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.5%
2018	90.2%	2.7%	3.2%	1.1%	1.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%
2019	90.6%	2.4%	3.7%	0.9%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.3%	3.2%	3.1%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.8%	5.2%	2.6%	1.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	89.3%	6.3%	2.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	86.2%	8.8%	2.5%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.4%	10.3%	1.9%	1.3%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	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 84.4% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Peabody: its share of workers rose from 2.2% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 8.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.8% to 1.0% of workers (down 0.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.7% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 1.9%.

Commute Start Times in Peabody

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Peabody?

The bars show when commuters in Peabody 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Peabody is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.5% across Massachusetts. Early starts are about as common as in Massachusetts: 11.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Peabody, 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 Peabody 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 Peabody 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	Peabody	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:49 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:47 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Peabody were on the road by 7:45 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved either. Commuters in Peabody now leave 8 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 Peabody has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Peabody's commute time compare?

Metric	Peabody	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 min	25.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.3%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.9%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Peabody is 22.6 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

1.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Peabody, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Peabody, MA is the 2nd largest of the 5 cities compared here, 54,686 residents against a local median of 28,438. Where Peabody, MA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 39% below the local median of 16.8% at 10.3%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.6 min against a local median of 28.5 min, 21% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 21% below the local median it puts Peabody, MA at the better end of the local range. The cities themselves spread 16.7% on work from home, so Peabody, MA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Peabody, MA has the 4th highest work from home of the 5 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Peabody, MA	54,686	22.6 min #1/5	10.3% #4/5	7:45 AM #4/5
Danvers, MA	28,103	22.7 min	19.3%	7:37 AM
Lynn, MA	101,709	28.2 min	7.9%	7:22 AM
Saugus, MA	28,773	28.7 min	14.3%	7:45 AM
Wakefield, MA	27,739	30.4 min	24.6%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Peabody, Massachusetts.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Peabody, Massachusetts?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,831 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Peabody, Massachusetts?

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

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

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.9% of commuters use it versus 6.5% in Massachusetts, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.