Brunswick Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Brunswick, 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 Brunswick: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Brunswick spend about 54 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 223 hours, about 9.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Brunswick holds about 0.3% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Brunswick would save about 89 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,769 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)
Brunswick	26.8 min	53.6 min	223 hrs/yr	$6,922	3,488
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.

Brunswick Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.8 minutes to get to work in Brunswick. 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 11.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Brunswick

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Brunswick, versus 0.1% in Ohio.

Walking is unusually rare in Brunswick: 4.3 times less than the Ohio average (0.5% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Brunswick: 5.2 times less than the Ohio average (0.2% vs 1.0%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Brunswick, versus 0.2% in Ohio.

Biking is essentially absent in Brunswick, versus 0.3% in Ohio.

Few people walk or bike to work in Brunswick: just 0.5%, 4.9 times below the Ohio average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Brunswick, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Brunswick 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	Other	Walked	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.2%	3.3%	0.1%	0.6%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%
2010	94.4%	3.3%	0.1%	0.9%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	94.3%	3.1%	0.5%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	93.9%	2.9%	0.6%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	93.5%	3.2%	0.5%	1.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	93.7%	3.2%	0.4%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	93.6%	3.4%	0.5%	1.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	93.7%	3.5%	0.3%	1.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	94.1%	3.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	94.4%	3.7%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	4.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	92.1%	5.7%	0.9%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	91.0%	6.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	89.8%	8.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	88.8%	9.8%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	87.6%	11.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	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 94.4%. Overall it fell from 94.2% in 2009 to 87.6% in 2024, down 6.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Brunswick: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 11.2% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.2% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 1.7% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 0.5%.

Commute Start Times in Brunswick

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Brunswick?

The bars show when commuters in Brunswick 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		4.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.3%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Brunswick is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 12.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 12.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.1%) 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 Brunswick, 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 Brunswick 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 Brunswick 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	Brunswick	Ohio	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Brunswick were on the road by 7:43 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Ohio, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Brunswick now leave 5 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 Brunswick has moved 10 minutes later.

How does Brunswick's commute time compare?

Metric	Brunswick	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.8 min	21.1 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	11.2%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Brunswick is 26.8 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Brunswick, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Brunswick, OH is typical in size for this group, 29,532 residents against a local median of 30,990, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. The measure that sets Brunswick, OH apart most is work from home: 11.2%, 23% below the local median of 14.6%.

The cities themselves spread 5.1% on work from home, so Brunswick, OH sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Brunswick, OH has the 4th highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Brunswick, OH	29,532	26.8 min #4/4	11.2% #4/4	7:43 AM #2/4
Strongsville, OH	45,983	25.0 min	19.3%	7:54 AM
North Royalton, OH	30,990	25.8 min	14.6%	7:30 AM
Medina, OH	21,146	21.5 min	14.2%	7:48 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Brunswick, Ohio.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Brunswick, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 223 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,922 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Brunswick, Ohio?

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

Do people use public transit in Brunswick, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.