Roselle Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Roselle, 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 Roselle: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Roselle spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 257 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.7 minutes.

Roselle holds about 0.2% of New Jersey's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Roselle would save about 103 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,188 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)
Roselle	30.8 min	61.7 min	257 hrs/yr	$7,969	3,773
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.

Roselle Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.8 minutes to get to work in Roselle. That's 38% 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 10.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Roselle

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Roselle: 4.5 times more than the New Jersey average (2.7% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Roselle, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Roselle 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	Taxi	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	76.4%	2.7%	9.9%	0.0%	1.2%	9.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	76.4%	2.8%	8.8%	0.0%	1.6%	10.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	74.4%	2.9%	9.5%	0.0%	1.7%	11.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	76.9%	2.6%	7.4%	0.0%	2.0%	10.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	83.2%	2.2%	7.7%	0.0%	1.9%	5.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	86.5%	1.4%	6.4%	0.0%	2.1%	3.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	85.0%	2.3%	7.3%	0.0%	2.2%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	83.6%	2.5%	9.6%	0.1%	1.7%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	81.7%	3.1%	10.8%	0.4%	1.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	82.1%	3.2%	10.3%	0.5%	1.3%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	79.6%	3.0%	13.9%	0.9%	1.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	76.5%	4.4%	14.2%	1.7%	1.3%	1.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	74.6%	5.4%	13.3%	2.4%	1.5%	2.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	73.2%	5.9%	13.7%	2.9%	1.8%	1.9%	0.5%	0.0%
2023	73.2%	8.3%	12.2%	3.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2024	73.6%	10.3%	10.1%	2.7%	1.5%	1.4%	0.5%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2014 at 86.5% and lowest in 2022 at 73.2%. Overall it fell from 76.4% in 2009 to 73.6% in 2024, down 2.8 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Roselle: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 10.3% in 2024, up 7.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Taking a taxi overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 14.2% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 10.1%.

Commute Start Times in Roselle

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Roselle?

The bars show when commuters in Roselle 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		9.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		0.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Roselle is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New Jersey. Early starts are more common than in New Jersey: 21.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Jersey: 42.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Roselle, 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 Roselle 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 Roselle 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	Roselle	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:26 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:23 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:26 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:31 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Roselle were on the road by 7:31 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:39 AM). That goes against the trend across New Jersey, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Roselle now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Roselle has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Roselle's commute time compare?

Metric	Roselle	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.8 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	10.3%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	10.1%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Roselle is 30.8 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

10.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Roselle, NJ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Roselle, NJ compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Roselle, NJ	22,520	30.8 min #2/2	10.3% #1/2	7:31 AM #1/2
Linden, NJ	44,201	27.0 min	7.3%	7:46 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Roselle, New Jersey.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 257 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,969 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Roselle, 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.