Quincy Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Quincy, 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 Quincy: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Quincy spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 271 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Quincy holds about 1.5% of Massachusetts's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Quincy would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,360 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)
Quincy	32.5 min	65.0 min	271 hrs/yr	$8,399	3,656
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.

Quincy Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.5 minutes to get to work in Quincy. That's 45% 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 21.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Quincy

Biking is unusually rare in Quincy: 4.1 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Quincy, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Quincy 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	Taxi	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	70.1%	2.4%	23.6%	3.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	69.2%	2.4%	25.0%	2.3%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	68.9%	2.1%	25.7%	2.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	68.5%	2.5%	25.5%	2.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	70.1%	2.4%	24.4%	2.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	68.5%	2.2%	26.2%	2.3%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	68.9%	1.8%	26.1%	2.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	67.9%	1.9%	26.6%	2.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	66.0%	1.8%	28.1%	2.8%	0.2%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	65.2%	2.1%	27.6%	3.3%	0.2%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2019	65.1%	3.0%	26.5%	3.6%	0.3%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%
2020	62.0%	6.9%	25.2%	3.7%	0.8%	0.9%	0.6%	0.0%
2021	61.3%	11.7%	21.3%	3.4%	0.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.1%
2022	59.8%	15.1%	19.5%	3.4%	0.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2023	59.6%	18.1%	17.7%	2.6%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	58.1%	21.2%	16.3%	2.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 70.1% in 2009 to 58.1% in 2024, down 12.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Quincy: its share of workers rose from 2.4% in 2009 to 21.2% in 2024, up 18.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 23.6% to 16.3% of workers (down 7.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Quincy

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Quincy?

The bars show when commuters in Quincy 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		3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Quincy is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.5% across Massachusetts. Early starts are about as common as in Massachusetts: 10.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Massachusetts: 46.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.5%) 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 Quincy, 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 Quincy 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 Quincy 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	Quincy	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:46 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:50 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:53 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:50 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:55 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:56 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:00 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:58 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Quincy were on the road by 7:58 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:46 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Quincy now leave 20 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 Quincy has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Quincy's commute time compare?

Metric	Quincy	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.5 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	21.2%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	16.3%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Quincy is 32.5 minutes, longer than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

16.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 2.5% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Quincy, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Quincy, MA is the 2nd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 102,031 residents against a local median of 38,939. Where Quincy, MA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 16% above the local median of 18.2% at 21.2%.

The cities themselves spread 14.6% on work from home, so Quincy, MA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Quincy, MA has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Quincy, MA	102,031	32.5 min #5/6	21.2% #3/6	7:58 AM #5/6
Braintree Town, MA	38,939	30.9 min	18.2%	7:38 AM
Boston, MA	660,627	30.2 min	21.4%	8:07 AM
Milton, MA	28,602	30.4 min	29.7%	7:57 AM
Weymouth Town, MA	58,503	30.6 min	18.1%	7:28 AM
Randolph Town, MA	34,885	32.8 min	15.1%	7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Quincy, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 271 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,399 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Quincy, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Quincy, 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.