Woburn Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Woburn, 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 Woburn: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Woburn 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 7.8 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.

Woburn 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 Woburn would save about 74 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,309 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)
Woburn	22.3 min	44.7 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,771	3,653
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.

Woburn Commute Map

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

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Woburn

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

Walking is unusually rare in Woburn: 3.3 times less than the Massachusetts average (1.3% vs 4.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Woburn: 4.2 times less than the Massachusetts average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Woburn: just 1.4%, 3.4 times below the Massachusetts average of 4.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Woburn, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Woburn 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.3%	1.9%	3.8%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	91.9%	2.0%	3.8%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	91.7%	2.0%	4.1%	1.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	92.0%	2.1%	3.8%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	90.8%	2.1%	4.7%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	2.5%	4.7%	2.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	89.7%	3.5%	4.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	88.7%	4.4%	4.5%	1.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	87.5%	4.6%	4.9%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	87.8%	4.8%	4.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%
2019	87.5%	4.7%	4.6%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2020	85.6%	6.8%	4.8%	1.8%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	80.5%	11.5%	4.8%	1.7%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	79.4%	13.6%	3.9%	1.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	78.2%	15.1%	3.7%	1.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	78.0%	16.0%	2.7%	1.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 78.0% in 2024, down 14.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Woburn: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 16.0% in 2024, up 14.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.8% to 2.7% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2018 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Woburn

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Woburn?

The bars show when commuters in Woburn 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		3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		18.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Woburn is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.3% across Massachusetts. Early starts are about as common as in Massachusetts: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Massachusetts: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Woburn, 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 Woburn 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 Woburn 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	Woburn	Massachusetts	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:45 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:43 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:48 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 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	7:45 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Woburn were on the road by 7:43 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:52 AM). Across Massachusetts, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Woburn now leave 5 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 Woburn has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Woburn's commute time compare?

Metric	Woburn	Massachusetts	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.3 min	25.6 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.0%	18.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	4.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.7%	6.5%	3.2%

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

2.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 6.5% in Massachusetts. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 4.1% in Massachusetts.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Woburn, MA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Woburn, MA is the 2nd largest of the 6 cities compared here, 41,946 residents against a local median of 25,603. Woburn, MA's work from home, at 16.0%, runs 47% below the 30.2% typical of the cities around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 22.3 min against a local median of 28.1 min, 20% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 20% below the local median it puts Woburn, MA at the better end of the local range. The cities themselves spread 12.0% on work from home, so Woburn, MA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Woburn, MA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Woburn, MA	41,946	22.3 min #1/6	16.0% #6/6	7:43 AM #2/6
Winchester, MA	23,377	31.2 min	33.9%	7:53 AM
Burlington, MA	26,309	23.6 min	22.5%	7:55 AM
Stoneham, MA	23,334	25.4 min	24.6%	7:49 AM
Reading, MA	25,603	28.1 min	30.2%	7:41 AM
Arlington, MA	46,270	31.5 min	34.5%	8:07 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Woburn, Massachusetts.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 186 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,771 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Massachusetts commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Woburn, Massachusetts?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Woburn, Massachusetts. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.