Akron Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Akron, Ohio: 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 Akron: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Akron spend about 37 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 153 hours, about 6.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Akron holds about 1.6% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 1.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Akron would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,901 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)
Akron	18.4 min	36.8 min	153 hrs/yr	$4,752	2,104
Ohio	21.1 min	42.2 min	176 hrs/yr	$5,447	1,212
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.

Akron Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.4 minutes to get to work in Akron. That's 18% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 11.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Akron

Commute Mode Trends in Akron, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Akron 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	90.8%	2.1%	3.0%	3.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	90.7%	1.9%	3.5%	2.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	90.6%	2.0%	3.5%	2.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	91.0%	1.9%	3.5%	2.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	91.1%	2.1%	3.8%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	91.0%	2.0%	4.3%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	90.7%	2.0%	4.5%	2.2%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	90.8%	2.0%	4.3%	2.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.8%	2.2%	4.2%	2.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	90.3%	2.5%	4.1%	2.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.5%	2.9%	3.6%	2.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	89.5%	4.7%	3.1%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	87.9%	6.3%	2.9%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	86.7%	7.7%	2.4%	1.9%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	85.1%	9.6%	2.1%	1.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	83.1%	11.1%	2.0%	2.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 91.1%. Overall it fell from 90.8% in 2009 to 83.1% in 2024, down 7.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Akron: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 11.1% in 2024, up 9.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.0% to 2.0% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Akron

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Akron?

The bars show when commuters in Akron 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 Ohio for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.8%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.6%

Akron Ohio Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Akron is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are about as common as in Ohio: 13.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 43.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (30.1%) 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 Akron, 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 Akron 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 Akron next to Ohio 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	Akron	Ohio	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:53 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:52 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:49 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:47 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Akron were on the road by 7:46 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:51 AM). Ohio followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Akron now leave 9 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Akron's commute time compare?

Metric	Akron	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.4 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.1%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.0%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Akron is 18.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

2.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Ohio. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Akron, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Akron, OH compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Akron, OH	187,388	18.4 min #1/3	11.1% #3/3	7:46 AM #3/3
Cuyahoga Falls, OH	52,018	20.6 min	13.3%	7:45 AM
Tallmadge, OH	20,010	20.5 min	12.6%	7:43 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Akron, Ohio.

Is living in Akron, Ohio good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 153 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,752 at a typical national wage. That's 13% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Akron, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Akron, Ohio. 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.