Lewiston Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Lewiston, 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 Lewiston: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lewiston spend about 28 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 115 hours, about 4.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 34% less time on the road than the Maine average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 7.0 minutes.

Lewiston holds about 2.8% of Maine's population but accounts for roughly 1.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lewiston would save about 46 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,427 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)
Lewiston	13.8 min	27.6 min	115 hrs/yr	$3,567	2,473
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.

Lewiston Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.8 minutes to get to work in Lewiston. That's 38% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lewiston

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Lewiston: 3.8 times more than the Maine average (0.7% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lewiston, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lewiston 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	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	86.7%	3.7%	6.5%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	87.1%	3.4%	7.2%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	87.4%	2.8%	7.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.2%
2012	86.4%	2.5%	8.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	86.2%	2.8%	8.6%	0.6%	0.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2014	86.1%	3.0%	7.9%	0.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%
2015	85.2%	2.9%	8.3%	0.5%	0.4%	1.6%	0.6%	0.5%
2016	84.9%	3.4%	8.7%	0.4%	0.4%	1.5%	0.5%	0.4%
2017	85.6%	3.7%	7.6%	0.3%	0.4%	1.3%	0.8%	0.4%
2018	86.7%	3.8%	6.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.6%
2019	87.2%	3.5%	7.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.3%
2020	86.3%	5.3%	7.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%
2021	83.2%	7.8%	7.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%
2022	82.3%	9.5%	6.9%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	79.6%	11.2%	7.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	78.3%	12.3%	6.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 87.4%. Overall it fell from 86.7% in 2009 to 78.3% in 2024, down 8.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lewiston: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 12.3% in 2024, up 8.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.8 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 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 8.7% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 6.9%.

Commute Start Times in Lewiston

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lewiston?

The bars show when commuters in Lewiston 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		7.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lewiston is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.8% across Maine. Early starts are about as common as in Maine: 16.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 16.0% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Maine: 40.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.9% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.3%) 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 Lewiston, 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 Lewiston 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 Lewiston 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	Lewiston	Maine	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:31 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:32 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:52 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lewiston were on the road by 7:44 AM, 9 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Maine, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Lewiston now leave 6 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 Lewiston has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Lewiston's commute time compare?

Metric	Lewiston	Maine	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.8 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	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.3%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	6.9%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Lewiston is 13.8 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Maine.

0.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 0.5% in Maine. 6.9% commute by walking, higher than the 3.4% in Maine.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Lewiston, ME Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lewiston, Maine.

Is commuting expensive in Lewiston, Maine?

Commuters here spend an estimated 115 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,567 at a typical national wage. That's 34% less than the typical Maine commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lewiston, Maine. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.