Mentor Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Mentor, 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 Mentor: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mentor spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 169 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 4% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 0.8 minutes.

Mentor 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 Mentor would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,092 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)
Mentor	20.2 min	40.5 min	169 hrs/yr	$5,229	2,593
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.

Mentor Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in Mentor. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mentor

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

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

Biking is unusually rare in Mentor: 3.6 times less than the Ohio average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mentor, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mentor 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	93.9%	3.4%	0.9%	0.3%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	94.2%	3.1%	1.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	93.9%	3.6%	1.0%	0.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	94.0%	3.4%	1.0%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	94.4%	3.0%	1.1%	0.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	92.7%	3.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	91.8%	3.7%	2.6%	0.2%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	91.9%	3.9%	2.6%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	91.1%	4.6%	2.6%	0.3%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	91.0%	4.8%	2.4%	0.2%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	92.0%	4.6%	1.5%	0.2%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	91.2%	6.3%	1.0%	0.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	89.4%	8.3%	0.9%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	88.0%	9.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.7%	13.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.5%	14.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	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 2013 at 94.4%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 83.5% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mentor: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 14.7% in 2024, up 11.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.3% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 2.6% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 0.7%.

Commute Start Times in Mentor

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mentor?

The bars show when commuters in Mentor 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		3.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mentor is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.2% across Ohio. Early starts are about as common as in Ohio: 13.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Ohio: 50.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.5%) 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 Mentor, 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 Mentor 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 Mentor 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	Mentor	Ohio	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mentor were on the road by 7:37 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Ohio, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Mentor now leave 1 minute 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 Mentor has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Mentor's commute time compare?

Metric	Mentor	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 min	21.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	14.7%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.7%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mentor is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.7% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Mentor, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Mentor, OH compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Mentor, OH	47,171	20.2 min #1/2	14.7% #2/2	7:37 AM #2/2
Willoughby, OH	24,008	20.7 min	18.4%	7:36 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mentor, Ohio.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Mentor, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 169 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,229 at a typical national wage. That's 4% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Mentor, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Mentor, 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.