Marion Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Marion, 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 Marion: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marion spend about 27 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 112 hours, about 4.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 36% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 7.7 minutes.

Marion holds about 0.3% of Ohio's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marion would save about 45 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,384 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)
Marion	13.4 min	26.8 min	112 hrs/yr	$3,460	1,511
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.

Marion Commute Map

On average, it takes 13.4 minutes to get to work in Marion. That's 40% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marion

Working from home is unusually rare in Marion: 3.5 times less than the Ohio average (3.7% vs 13.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Marion, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marion 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.3%	2.8%	2.8%	1.0%	0.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.0%	2.9%	2.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	94.0%	2.8%	2.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	93.7%	3.1%	1.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	94.9%	2.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	95.1%	1.7%	1.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	95.0%	1.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	94.3%	1.4%	1.7%	0.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2017	93.6%	1.8%	2.2%	0.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2018	93.6%	1.8%	2.2%	0.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	92.6%	3.2%	2.0%	0.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	92.4%	3.4%	1.0%	1.4%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%
2021	92.2%	4.1%	1.3%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2022	92.7%	3.6%	1.3%	1.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2023	91.9%	4.3%	1.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2024	91.5%	3.7%	1.4%	1.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 95.1%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 91.5% in 2024, down 0.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marion: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 3.7% in 2024, up 0.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.8% to 1.4% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Marion

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marion?

The bars show when commuters in Marion 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		9.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		12.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marion is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 12.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.7% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 19.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 35.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.4%) 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 Marion, 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 Marion 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 Marion 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	Marion	Ohio	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:56 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:55 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:53 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:53 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:46 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:57 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:51 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:53 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:59 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:53 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marion were on the road by 7:53 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:45 AM). That goes against the trend across Ohio, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Marion now leave 15 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 Marion has moved 11 minutes later.

How does Marion's commute time compare?

Metric	Marion	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	13.4 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.7%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marion is 13.4 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

1.2% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Marion, Ohio.

Is commuting expensive in Marion, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 112 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $3,460 at a typical national wage. That's 36% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Marion, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Marion, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.