Westfield Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Westfield, 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 Westfield: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Westfield spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 186 hours, about 7.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Massachusetts average of 25.6 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Westfield 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 Westfield would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,306 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)
Westfield	22.3 min	44.6 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,766	1,927
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.

Westfield Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.3 minutes to get to work in Westfield. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Westfield

Driving is 22% more common in Westfield than the Massachusetts average (83.3% vs 68.2%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Westfield: 3.0 times less than the Massachusetts average (2.1% vs 6.5%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Westfield: 44.0 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Westfield, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Westfield 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	93.4%	2.1%	2.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	92.8%	2.8%	2.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	92.3%	3.6%	3.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.8%	4.2%	2.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	92.4%	4.1%	2.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	92.0%	3.7%	3.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.7%	3.9%	3.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.3%	4.3%	3.1%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	91.5%	4.4%	3.0%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.9%	4.6%	3.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	91.6%	4.2%	2.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	89.4%	5.0%	2.7%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	88.2%	5.7%	2.8%	1.7%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	87.8%	6.5%	2.0%	1.6%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	85.7%	7.5%	3.1%	2.0%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.3%	8.6%	3.3%	2.1%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 83.3% in 2024, down 10.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Westfield: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 8.6% in 2024, up 6.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

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

Commute Start Times in Westfield

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Westfield?

The bars show when commuters in Westfield 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Westfield is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.7% across Massachusetts. Early starts are more common than in Massachusetts: 13.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush looks much like Massachusetts's: 48.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.3%) 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 Westfield, 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 Westfield 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 Westfield 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	Westfield	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:40 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	7:36 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:45 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:32 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Westfield were on the road by 7:35 AM, 5 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:40 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Westfield now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Westfield's commute time compare?

Metric	Westfield	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 min	25.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	8.6%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.1%	6.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Westfield is 22.3 minutes, shorter than the 25.6 minutes in Massachusetts.

2.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 3.3% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Westfield, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Westfield, MA is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 40,378 residents against a local median of 28,772. The measure that sets Westfield, MA apart most is work from home: 8.6%, 22% below the local median of 11.0%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.3 min against a local median of 18.6 min, 20% above it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 20% above the local median it puts Westfield, MA at the weaker end of the local range. The cities themselves sit within 0.7% of each other on work from home, a tighter band than the gap between any of them and Westfield, MA, which makes it a genuine outlier here rather than one end of a wide local spread. Westfield, MA has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Westfield, MA	40,378	22.3 min #4/4	8.6% #4/4	7:35 AM #3/4
West Springfield Town, MA	28,772	17.8 min	10.4%	7:40 AM
Agawam Town, MA	28,525	20.3 min	11.0%	7:28 AM
Holyoke, MA	37,770	18.6 min	11.1%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Westfield, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,766 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Westfield, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Westfield, 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 Westfield, Massachusetts?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 2.1% of commuters use it versus 6.5% in Massachusetts, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.