Westbrook Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Westbrook, 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 Westbrook: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Westbrook spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% less time on the road than the Maine average of 20.8 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Westbrook holds about 1.5% of Maine's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Westbrook would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,881 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)
Westbrook	18.2 min	36.4 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,702	2,664
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.

Westbrook Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Westbrook. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Westbrook

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Westbrook: 5.0 times more than the Maine average (0.9% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Westbrook, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Westbrook 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	Taxi	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	88.9%	3.2%	2.7%	0.9%	0.3%	2.8%	1.0%	0.0%
2010	91.2%	3.5%	2.1%	0.8%	0.3%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%
2011	92.0%	3.3%	1.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%
2012	91.5%	3.3%	1.9%	0.7%	0.2%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%
2013	92.2%	3.6%	1.7%	0.3%	0.4%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	92.8%	3.7%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	91.0%	3.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	3.3%	0.8%	0.0%
2016	90.0%	3.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.4%	4.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2017	90.4%	3.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	3.6%	1.1%	0.0%
2018	90.4%	3.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.6%	3.2%	0.9%	0.0%
2019	90.0%	4.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.5%	2.7%	1.1%	0.0%
2020	89.3%	8.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	84.8%	12.3%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%
2022	81.9%	15.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	78.7%	18.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	77.7%	17.8%	2.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 92.8%. Overall it fell from 88.9% in 2009 to 77.7% in 2024, down 11.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Westbrook: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 17.8% in 2024, up 14.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 0.5% of workers (down 2.3 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Westbrook

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Westbrook?

The bars show when commuters in Westbrook 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		2.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		15.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Westbrook is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.8% 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: 52.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.9% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Westbrook, 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 Westbrook 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 Westbrook 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	Westbrook	Maine	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:27 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:27 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:26 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:26 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:33 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:24 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:47 AM	7:25 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Westbrook were on the road by 7:47 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). That goes against the trend across Maine, where the typical commuter now leaves 1 minute earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Westbrook now leave 10 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 Westbrook has moved 16 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Westbrook in the whole series.

How does Westbrook's commute time compare?

Metric	Westbrook	Maine	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 min	20.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.8%	15.9%	15.0%
Walked	2.1%	3.4%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Westbrook is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 20.8 minutes in Maine.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Maine. 2.1% commute by walking, lower than the 3.4% in Maine.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Westbrook, ME Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Westbrook, ME	20,775	18.2 min #2/2	17.8% #2/2	7:47 AM #1/2
South Portland, ME	26,562	15.5 min	19.5%	7:53 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Westbrook, Maine.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Westbrook, Maine?

Commuters here spend an estimated 152 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,702 at a typical national wage. That's 12% less than the typical Maine commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Westbrook, Maine?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Westbrook, Maine. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.