Auburn Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Auburn, Maine: 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 Auburn: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Auburn spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 133 hours, about 5.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the Maine average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 4.8 minutes.

Auburn holds about 1.8% of Maine's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Auburn would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,651 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)
Auburn	16.0 min	32.0 min	133 hrs/yr	$4,129	2,423
Maine	20.8 min	41.6 min	173 hrs/yr	$5,372	1,015
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.

Auburn Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.0 minutes to get to work in Auburn. That's 29% shorter than 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 11.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Auburn

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Auburn, versus 0.1% in Maine.

Biking is unusually rare in Auburn: 3.5 times less than the Maine average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Auburn, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Auburn 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	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	2.3%	3.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	93.2%	2.4%	3.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2011	92.1%	2.7%	3.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	92.0%	2.9%	3.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2013	91.7%	2.1%	3.9%	0.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2014	91.2%	2.6%	3.8%	0.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%
2015	90.6%	2.8%	4.2%	0.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%
2016	89.9%	3.3%	5.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	89.4%	3.9%	4.8%	0.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	89.8%	4.4%	4.5%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	89.3%	5.7%	3.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	88.2%	7.4%	3.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	86.1%	9.2%	3.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	85.2%	10.0%	3.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	85.3%	11.0%	2.5%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.4%	11.5%	2.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	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 93.2% in 2009 to 84.4% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Auburn: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 11.5% in 2024, up 9.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.8 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 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.0% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 2.7%.

Commute Start Times in Auburn

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Auburn?

The bars show when commuters in Auburn 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 Maine for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		19.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

Auburn Maine Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Auburn is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.8% across Maine. Early starts are less common than in Maine: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.0% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maine: 55.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.9% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.7%) 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 Auburn, 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 Auburn 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 Auburn next to Maine 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	Auburn	Maine	United States
2009	7:30 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Auburn were on the road by 7:31 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Maine, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Auburn now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Auburn's commute time compare?

Metric	Auburn	Maine	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.0 min	20.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.5%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.7%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Auburn is 16.0 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Maine.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in Maine. 2.7% commute by walking, lower than the 3.4% in Maine.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Auburn, ME Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Auburn, ME compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Auburn, ME	24,602	16.0 min #2/2	11.5% #2/2	7:31 AM #1/2
Lewiston, ME	38,324	13.8 min	12.3%	7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Auburn, Maine.

Is commuting expensive in Auburn, Maine?

Commuters here spend an estimated 133 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,129 at a typical national wage. That's 23% less than the typical Maine commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Auburn, Maine?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Auburn, Maine. 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.