Painesville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Painesville, 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 Painesville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Painesville spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Painesville holds about 0.2% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Painesville would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,877 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)
Painesville	18.2 min	36.3 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,693	2,403
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.

Painesville Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Painesville. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Painesville

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

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

Biking is unusually common in Painesville: 3.6 times more than the Ohio average (1.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Painesville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Painesville 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	94.5%	0.4%	2.1%	1.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	91.2%	0.8%	3.7%	2.1%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	89.9%	0.9%	5.1%	1.9%	1.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	90.7%	0.9%	4.9%	1.3%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	90.8%	1.6%	4.0%	1.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	89.7%	2.8%	4.1%	0.7%	1.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	92.8%	2.1%	3.1%	0.1%	1.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	92.9%	2.4%	2.4%	0.1%	1.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2017	93.8%	2.1%	2.1%	0.1%	1.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.3%	1.8%	2.8%	0.2%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	92.7%	1.9%	3.0%	0.1%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	90.1%	2.7%	4.7%	0.2%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	88.8%	4.3%	4.6%	0.5%	1.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.4%	6.1%	5.6%	0.5%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	8.9%	4.1%	0.3%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	83.6%	8.3%	4.0%	1.6%	1.5%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 94.5% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, down 10.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Painesville: its share of workers rose from 0.4% in 2009 to 8.3% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.6% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 4.0%.

Commute Start Times in Painesville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Painesville?

The bars show when commuters in Painesville 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		3.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Painesville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are about as common as in Ohio: 13.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like Ohio's: 44.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.8%) 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 Painesville, 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 Painesville 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 Painesville 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	Painesville	Ohio	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:28 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:30 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:27 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:21 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:01 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:50 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:40 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Painesville were on the road by 7:40 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (7:24 AM). That goes against the trend across Ohio, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Painesville now leave 2 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 Painesville has moved 9 minutes later.

How does Painesville's commute time compare?

Metric	Painesville	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	4.0%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Painesville is 18.2 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

1.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Ohio. 4.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Painesville, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Painesville, OH	20,571	18.2 min #1/2	8.3% #2/2	7:40 AM #2/2
Mentor, OH	47,171	20.2 min	14.7%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Painesville, Ohio.

Is commuting expensive in Painesville, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 151 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,693 at a typical national wage. That's 14% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Painesville, Ohio. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.