Stoneham Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Stoneham, 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 Stoneham: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Stoneham spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 212 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way.

Stoneham holds about 0.3% of Massachusetts's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Stoneham would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,628 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)
Stoneham	25.4 min	50.9 min	212 hrs/yr	$6,571	2,661
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.

Stoneham Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.4 minutes to get to work in Stoneham. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 24.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Stoneham

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

Walking is unusually rare in Stoneham: 3.9 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.0% vs 4.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Stoneham: 55.3 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Biking is unusually rare in Stoneham: 5.6 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Stoneham: just 1.2%, 4.2 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Stoneham, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Stoneham 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.7%	2.6%	5.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	90.2%	2.8%	5.2%	1.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	89.8%	2.8%	5.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	90.4%	2.8%	4.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	88.4%	3.2%	6.2%	1.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	88.8%	3.1%	5.5%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2015	88.8%	2.7%	5.8%	1.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	88.9%	2.5%	6.4%	1.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	87.6%	2.6%	7.5%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	87.6%	2.9%	7.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	87.4%	3.3%	7.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	85.6%	6.1%	7.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.7%	9.9%	6.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	77.9%	16.0%	5.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	75.2%	19.7%	4.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.5%	24.6%	2.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	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 90.7% in 2009 to 71.5% in 2024, down 19.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Stoneham: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 24.6% in 2024, up 22.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 21.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.8% to 2.5% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Stoneham

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Stoneham?

The bars show when commuters in Stoneham 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		1.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		14.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		17.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Stoneham is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 17.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.5% across Massachusetts. Early starts are less common than in Massachusetts: 6.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Massachusetts: 56.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.4%) 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 Stoneham, 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 Stoneham 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 Stoneham 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	Stoneham	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:49 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Stoneham were on the road by 7:49 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Stoneham now leave 11 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 Stoneham has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Stoneham in the whole series.

How does Stoneham's commute time compare?

Metric	Stoneham	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	24.6%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.5%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Stoneham is 25.4 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

2.5% 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

Stoneham, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Stoneham, MA is the smallest of the 6 cities compared here, 23,334 residents against a local median of 29,648. The measure that sets Stoneham, MA apart most is one-way commute: 25.4 min, 16% below the local median of 30.4 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

The cities themselves spread 10.5 min on one-way commute, so Stoneham, MA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Stoneham, MA has the 2nd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Stoneham, MA	23,334	25.4 min #2/6	24.6% #5/6	7:49 AM #4/6
Melrose, MA	29,648	32.9 min	29.6%	7:44 AM
Wakefield, MA	27,739	30.4 min	24.6%	7:33 AM
Medford, MA	59,237	30.1 min	26.8%	8:02 AM
Winchester, MA	23,377	31.2 min	33.9%	7:53 AM
Woburn, MA	41,946	22.3 min	16.0%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 212 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,571 at a typical national wage.

When is rush hour worst in Stoneham, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Stoneham, Massachusetts?

About 24.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Stoneham would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,628 at the same national wage assumption used above.