Linden Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Linden, New Jersey: 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 Linden: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Linden spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 225 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 3% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Linden holds about 0.5% of New Jersey's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Linden would save about 90 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,786 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)
Linden	27.0 min	53.9 min	225 hrs/yr	$6,965	3,501
New Jersey	26.2 min	52.4 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,764	2,109
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.

Linden Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.0 minutes to get to work in Linden. That's 20% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Linden

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Linden, versus 0.0% in New Jersey.

Commute Mode Trends in Linden, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Linden 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	82.4%	1.7%	7.8%	2.7%	5.0%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	80.6%	2.1%	7.8%	2.9%	6.1%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	80.9%	2.4%	7.5%	2.0%	6.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	80.3%	1.9%	6.6%	2.5%	8.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	82.8%	2.2%	7.3%	2.2%	5.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	82.9%	2.2%	8.2%	2.3%	3.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	84.6%	2.1%	7.8%	2.7%	1.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	84.3%	2.1%	8.6%	3.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	83.4%	2.0%	10.2%	2.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	83.1%	1.6%	10.9%	2.9%	0.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	83.5%	1.8%	11.3%	2.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.9%	2.5%	8.8%	2.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	82.9%	4.8%	8.7%	2.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	82.8%	4.9%	7.4%	2.2%	1.3%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	81.8%	6.2%	7.1%	2.4%	1.3%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	80.5%	7.3%	6.5%	2.5%	1.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 84.9% and lowest in 2012 at 80.3%. Overall it fell from 82.4% in 2009 to 80.5% in 2024, down 1.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Linden: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 5.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 7.8% to 6.5% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Linden

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Linden?

The bars show when commuters in Linden 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 New Jersey for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.5%

Linden New Jersey Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Linden is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New Jersey. Early starts are more common than in New Jersey: 13.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like New Jersey's: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.7%) 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 Linden, 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 Linden 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 Linden next to New Jersey 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	Linden	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:48 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Linden were on the road by 7:46 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Jersey, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Linden now leave 8 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 Linden has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Linden's commute time compare?

Metric	Linden	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.0 min	26.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	7.3%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.5%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	6.5%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Linden is 27.0 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

6.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 2.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Linden, NJ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Linden, NJ is the largest of the 4 cities compared here, 44,201 residents against a local median of 25,402. The measure that sets Linden, NJ apart most is work from home: 7.3%, 34% below the local median of 11.1%.

The cities themselves spread 6.7% on work from home, so Linden, NJ sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Linden, NJ has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Linden, NJ	44,201	27.0 min #2/4	7.3% #4/4	7:46 AM #2/4
Roselle, NJ	22,520	30.8 min	10.3%	7:31 AM
Carteret, NJ	25,402	30.1 min	11.1%	8:04 AM
Rahway, NJ	29,932	26.8 min	17.0%	7:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Linden, New Jersey.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Linden, New Jersey?

Commuters here spend an estimated 225 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,965 at a typical national wage. That's 3% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Linden, New Jersey?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Linden, New Jersey. 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.