Woodbridge Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Woodbridge, 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 Woodbridge: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Woodbridge spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 227 hours, about 9.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 1.0 minutes.

Woodbridge holds about 0.2% of New Jersey's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Woodbridge would save about 91 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,810 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)
Woodbridge	27.2 min	54.4 min	227 hrs/yr	$7,026	3,042
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.

Woodbridge Commute Map

On average, it takes 27.2 minutes to get to work in Woodbridge. That's 21% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Woodbridge

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

Biking is unusually common in Woodbridge: 4.0 times more than the New Jersey average (1.2% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Woodbridge, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Woodbridge 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	82.9%	1.3%	11.0%	3.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	83.2%	1.1%	10.9%	2.5%	1.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%
2011	82.4%	1.6%	11.9%	2.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2012	81.0%	1.4%	12.9%	2.5%	1.5%	0.2%	0.4%	0.1%
2013	78.9%	1.3%	14.2%	3.4%	1.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%
2014	80.0%	1.4%	13.5%	2.7%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%
2015	77.8%	1.6%	14.5%	4.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	77.9%	1.7%	14.9%	3.5%	1.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	79.5%	1.7%	14.3%	2.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	80.7%	1.9%	12.5%	2.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.6%	0.2%
2019	80.0%	1.9%	14.0%	1.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.9%	0.2%
2020	80.5%	5.0%	11.4%	0.6%	1.4%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%
2021	76.4%	9.7%	8.6%	1.5%	1.9%	0.8%	1.0%	0.1%
2022	73.5%	11.9%	9.2%	2.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%
2023	70.9%	13.2%	10.2%	2.4%	1.6%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%
2024	69.6%	15.7%	8.4%	2.6%	1.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 83.2%. Overall it fell from 82.9% in 2009 to 69.6% in 2024, down 13.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Woodbridge: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 15.7% in 2024, up 14.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 11.0% to 8.4% of workers (down 2.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.0% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 2.6%.

Commute Start Times in Woodbridge

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Woodbridge?

The bars show when commuters in Woodbridge 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Woodbridge is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across New Jersey. Early starts are about as common as in New Jersey: 11.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Jersey: 40.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.6%) 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 Woodbridge, 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 Woodbridge 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 Woodbridge 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	Woodbridge	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:52 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:52 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:55 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:51 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:47 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:48 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:48 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:50 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:52 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:54 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:51 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Woodbridge were on the road by 7:51 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:52 AM). That goes against the trend across New Jersey, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Woodbridge now leave 13 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 Woodbridge has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Woodbridge's commute time compare?

Metric	Woodbridge	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	27.2 min	26.2 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.7%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	2.6%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	8.4%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Woodbridge is 27.2 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

8.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 227 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,026 at a typical national wage. That's 4% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.