Cuyahoga Falls Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cuyahoga Falls, 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 Cuyahoga Falls: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cuyahoga Falls spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 172 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.4 minutes.

Cuyahoga Falls holds about 0.4% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cuyahoga Falls would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,132 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)
Cuyahoga Falls	20.6 min	41.3 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,331	2,211
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.

Cuyahoga Falls Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.6 minutes to get to work in Cuyahoga Falls. That's 8% 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 13.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cuyahoga Falls

Biking is unusually rare in Cuyahoga Falls: 89.1 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Cuyahoga Falls, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cuyahoga Falls 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	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	94.3%	2.9%	1.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	94.7%	2.8%	1.2%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	94.6%	3.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	94.9%	2.6%	0.9%	0.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.8%	3.0%	0.9%	0.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	95.5%	2.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	95.1%	2.6%	1.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	94.9%	2.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	94.9%	3.3%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	94.8%	3.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.9%	4.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	92.9%	5.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	90.6%	7.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.0%	9.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	86.6%	11.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	84.6%	13.3%	0.9%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 94.3% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 9.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cuyahoga Falls: its share of workers rose from 2.9% in 2009 to 13.3% in 2024, up 10.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.7 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Cuyahoga Falls

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cuyahoga Falls?

The bars show when commuters in Cuyahoga Falls 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		3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		8.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cuyahoga Falls is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 10.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Ohio: 49.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.6%) 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 Cuyahoga Falls, 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 Cuyahoga Falls 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 Cuyahoga Falls 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	Cuyahoga Falls	Ohio	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:47 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:46 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:45 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:45 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cuyahoga Falls were on the road by 7:45 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Ohio, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Cuyahoga Falls now leave 7 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Cuyahoga Falls's commute time compare?

Metric	Cuyahoga Falls	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.6 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	13.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cuyahoga Falls is about the same as in Ohio.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cuyahoga Falls, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cuyahoga Falls, OH	52,018	20.6 min #2/3	13.3% #2/3	7:45 AM #2/3
Akron, OH	187,388	18.4 min	11.1%	7:46 AM
Stow, OH	34,221	21.1 min	17.3%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 172 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,331 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cuyahoga Falls, 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.