Rahway Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Rahway, 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 Rahway: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Rahway spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 224 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.6 minutes.

Rahway holds about 0.3% of New Jersey's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Rahway would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,771 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)
Rahway	26.8 min	53.6 min	224 hrs/yr	$6,929	3,375
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.

Rahway Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.8 minutes to get to work in Rahway. 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 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 17.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Rahway

Walking is unusually rare in Rahway: 3.2 times less than the New Jersey average (0.8% vs 2.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Rahway: 3.2 times less than the New Jersey average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Rahway: just 0.9%, 3.2 times below the New Jersey average of 2.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Rahway, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Rahway 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	Taxi	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.9%	1.5%	8.0%	2.7%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	82.9%	1.8%	10.2%	2.7%	0.1%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	82.6%	1.7%	10.7%	2.5%	0.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	83.9%	1.6%	9.6%	2.7%	0.1%	2.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	83.2%	1.5%	9.3%	3.0%	0.0%	2.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	83.3%	1.6%	9.7%	3.0%	0.0%	1.9%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	81.0%	2.1%	11.0%	3.3%	0.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.5%
2016	79.8%	2.3%	12.2%	3.4%	0.0%	1.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2017	79.0%	2.7%	12.9%	3.0%	0.0%	1.6%	0.2%	0.6%
2018	79.8%	2.7%	12.2%	2.8%	0.1%	1.7%	0.1%	0.5%
2019	80.7%	2.7%	12.6%	2.6%	0.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%
2020	78.1%	4.6%	13.6%	2.3%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	77.5%	7.8%	10.8%	1.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	74.7%	11.5%	10.1%	1.1%	0.9%	1.3%	0.3%	0.1%
2023	71.7%	14.8%	10.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2024	72.3%	17.0%	8.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 71.7%. Overall it fell from 85.9% in 2009 to 72.3% in 2024, down 13.6 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Rahway: its share of workers rose from 1.5% in 2009 to 17.0% in 2024, up 15.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 0.8% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 13.6% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 8.4%.

Commute Start Times in Rahway

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Rahway?

The bars show when commuters in Rahway 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Rahway is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New Jersey. Early starts are about as common as in New Jersey: 11.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like New Jersey's: 49.3% 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 Rahway, 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 Rahway 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 Rahway 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	Rahway	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:44 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:39 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:58 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Rahway were on the road by 7:56 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Jersey, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Rahway now leave 18 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 Rahway has moved 16 minutes later.

How does Rahway's commute time compare?

Metric	Rahway	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.8 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	17.0%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.4%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Rahway is 26.8 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

8.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Rahway, NJ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Rahway, NJ compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Rahway, NJ	29,932	26.8 min #1/3	17.0% #1/3	7:56 AM #3/3
Linden, NJ	44,201	27.0 min	7.3%	7:46 AM
Roselle, NJ	22,520	30.8 min	10.3%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Rahway, New Jersey.

Is living in Rahway, New Jersey good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 224 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,929 at a typical national wage. That's 2% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Rahway, New Jersey?

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