Riverside Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Riverside, 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 Riverside: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Riverside spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 149 hours, about 6.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% less time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Riverside 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 Riverside would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,848 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)
Riverside	17.9 min	35.8 min	149 hrs/yr	$4,621	2,306
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.

Riverside Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.9 minutes to get to work in Riverside. That's 20% shorter 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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Riverside

Walking is unusually rare in Riverside: 3.5 times less than the Ohio average (0.6% vs 2.0%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Riverside: just 0.6%, 3.5 times below the Ohio average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Riverside, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Riverside 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	95.6%	1.3%	0.9%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	95.5%	1.3%	1.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	95.8%	1.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	95.8%	1.9%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	96.4%	1.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	96.6%	1.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	96.5%	1.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	95.5%	1.6%	1.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	95.3%	1.5%	1.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2018	94.6%	2.3%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	94.5%	2.8%	1.0%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	92.1%	5.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.2%
2021	91.9%	6.0%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	91.3%	7.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	89.2%	9.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	88.5%	9.9%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%	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 96.6%. Overall it fell from 95.6% in 2009 to 88.5% in 2024, down 7.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 10 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Riverside: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 9.9% 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 1.4% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2011 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Riverside

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Riverside?

The bars show when commuters in Riverside 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Riverside is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.9% 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 concentrated than in Ohio: 48.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.6%) 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 Riverside, 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 Riverside 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 Riverside 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	Riverside	Ohio	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:40 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:38 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:32 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:36 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:44 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:42 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Riverside were on the road by 7:42 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Ohio, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Riverside now leave 4 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 Riverside has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Riverside's commute time compare?

Metric	Riverside	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.9 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	9.9%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.4%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Riverside is 17.9 minutes, shorter than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Riverside, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Riverside, OH is the smallest of the 4 cities compared here, 22,650 residents against a local median of 42,546. There is no headline here. Every measure below sits within 15% of the median across the nearest cities, which makes Riverside, OH an unremarkable member of its own neighbourhood rather than an outlier in it.

The largest of those small differences is one-way commute, 1% above the local median at 17.9 min against 17.7 min. Riverside, OH has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Riverside, OH	22,650	17.9 min #3/4	9.9% #3/4	7:42 AM #2/4
Huber Heights, OH	37,266	21.6 min	9.2%	7:39 AM
Dayton, OH	141,732	17.7 min	10.0%	8:00 AM
Beavercreek, OH	42,546	17.4 min	15.5%	7:50 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Riverside, Ohio.

Is living in Riverside, Ohio good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 149 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,621 at a typical national wage. That's 15% less than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Riverside, Ohio?

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