Parma Heights Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Parma Heights, 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 Parma Heights: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Parma Heights spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 194 hours, about 8.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.2 minutes.

Parma Heights 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 Parma Heights would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,402 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)
Parma Heights	23.2 min	46.5 min	194 hrs/yr	$6,004	2,617
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.

Parma Heights Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.2 minutes to get to work in Parma Heights. That's 4% longer 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 14.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Parma Heights

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

Commute Mode Trends in Parma Heights, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Parma Heights 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	92.9%	2.1%	0.6%	3.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	93.6%	1.5%	0.5%	3.1%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	94.1%	1.2%	0.5%	3.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	93.6%	1.2%	0.6%	3.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	94.2%	1.7%	0.5%	2.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	94.4%	1.7%	0.4%	1.6%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	94.3%	1.7%	0.4%	1.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	94.2%	2.2%	0.3%	1.1%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	93.9%	2.7%	0.7%	1.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	93.7%	2.6%	0.9%	1.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	93.3%	3.1%	1.0%	1.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	91.0%	5.2%	1.2%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	89.1%	6.7%	1.5%	0.9%	1.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	87.0%	8.8%	1.8%	0.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	81.5%	12.7%	2.7%	1.6%	1.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	80.0%	14.3%	2.3%	1.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%	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 94.4%. Overall it fell from 92.9% in 2009 to 80.0% in 2024, down 12.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Parma Heights: its share of workers rose from 2.1% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2024, up 12.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Parma Heights

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Parma Heights?

The bars show when commuters in Parma Heights 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		5.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		10.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Parma Heights is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.4% across Ohio. Early starts are about as common as in Ohio: 14.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Ohio: 42.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.8%) 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 Parma Heights, 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 Parma Heights 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 Parma Heights 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	Parma Heights	Ohio	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:42 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:43 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:45 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:51 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:48 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:50 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:50 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:52 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:58 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:54 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Parma Heights were on the road by 7:46 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 Parma Heights now leave 8 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 Parma Heights has moved 7 minutes earlier.

How does Parma Heights's commute time compare?

Metric	Parma Heights	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.2 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.3%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Parma Heights is 23.2 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

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

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Parma Heights, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Parma Heights, OH	20,580	23.2 min #2/2	14.3% #1/2	7:46 AM #2/2
Parma, OH	79,821	22.5 min	11.7%	7:39 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Parma Heights, Ohio.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Parma Heights, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 194 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,004 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Parma Heights, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Parma Heights, 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.