Massillon Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Massillon, 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 Massillon: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Massillon spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 148 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.4 minutes.

Massillon 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 Massillon would save about 59 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,832 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)
Massillon	17.7 min	35.4 min	148 hrs/yr	$4,579	1,962
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.

Massillon Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.7 minutes to get to work in Massillon. That's 21% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Massillon

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

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Massillon: 1542.2 times less than the Ohio average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Massillon, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Massillon 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.2%	1.6%	0.1%	2.6%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.7%	1.5%	0.1%	2.6%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	95.5%	1.3%	0.1%	1.7%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	94.2%	1.8%	0.3%	2.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	94.7%	1.6%	0.3%	2.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	94.9%	1.9%	0.4%	1.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	93.9%	1.9%	0.4%	1.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	93.3%	2.5%	0.5%	1.6%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	93.7%	2.5%	0.3%	1.3%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	92.4%	3.0%	0.4%	1.9%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	92.4%	3.1%	0.3%	1.9%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	89.4%	5.7%	1.6%	1.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	86.7%	7.4%	2.4%	1.8%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	84.9%	8.4%	3.0%	2.2%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	84.8%	8.9%	3.1%	1.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	84.1%	10.2%	3.2%	1.6%	0.6%	0.3%	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 2011 at 95.5%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 9.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Massillon: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 10.2% in 2024, up 8.6 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 2.3% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Massillon

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Massillon?

The bars show when commuters in Massillon 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		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Massillon is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 12.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.1% across Ohio. Early starts are more common than in Ohio: 19.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 40.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.4%) 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 Massillon, 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 Massillon 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 Massillon 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	Massillon	Ohio	United States
2009	7:36 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	7:46 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:42 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Massillon were on the road by 7:34 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). Ohio followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Massillon now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Massillon has moved 12 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Massillon in the whole series.

How does Massillon's commute time compare?

Metric	Massillon	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.7 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 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	10.2%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Massillon is 17.7 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 1.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Massillon, Ohio.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 148 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,579 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Massillon, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM in Massillon, 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.