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Commuting in Solon, 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 Solon: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Solon spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the Ohio average of 21.1 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Solon 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 Solon would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,438 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)
Solon 23.6 min 47.2 min 197 hrs/yr $6,094 1,935
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.

Solon Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.6 minutes to get to work in Solon. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Solon

  • Car: 75.4%
  • Worked at Home: 23.1%
  • Other: 0.9%
  • Walked: 0.4% unusually low
  • Bicycle: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Walking is unusually rare in Solon: 5.4 times less than the Ohio average (0.4% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Solon, versus 1.0% in Ohio.

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Solon: just 0.5%, 4.4 times below the Ohio average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Solon, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Solon 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 Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 93.4% 4.7% 1.2% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2010 93.6% 4.8% 0.8% 0.5% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2011 94.2% 4.6% 0.5% 0.3% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0%
2012 94.0% 4.4% 0.7% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
2013 93.3% 5.2% 0.5% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0%
2014 93.3% 5.6% 0.3% 0.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 93.4% 5.5% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 92.9% 5.9% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 92.7% 5.9% 0.4% 0.6% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0%
2018 92.7% 5.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0%
2019 92.7% 5.6% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 90.4% 8.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 86.9% 11.6% 0.4% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 82.2% 15.9% 1.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 80.8% 18.0% 0.3% 0.5% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 75.4% 23.1% 0.9% 0.4% 0.2% 0.0% 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 94.2%. Overall it fell from 93.4% in 2009 to 75.4% in 2024, down 18.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Solon: its share of workers rose from 4.7% in 2009 to 23.1% in 2024, up 18.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Solon

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Solon?

The bars show when commuters in Solon 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
2.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
0.7%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.3%
8:00-8:29 AM
22.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
8.2%
9:00-9:59 AM
9.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Solon is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 22.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 5.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Ohio: 56.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.3%) 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 Solon, 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 Solon 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 Solon 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 Solon Ohio United States
2009 7:51 AM 7:42 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:55 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:55 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:52 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:55 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:57 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:55 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:54 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:53 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:51 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:50 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:51 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:51 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2022 8:01 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2023 8:01 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2024 8:05 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Solon were on the road by 8:05 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:51 AM). That goes against the trend across Ohio, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Solon now leave 27 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 Solon has moved 15 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Solon in the whole series.

How does Solon's commute time compare?

Metric Solon Ohio US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.6 min 21.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 08:00 AM – 08:29 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 23.1% 13.0% 15.0%
Walked 0.4% 2.0% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 1.0% 3.2%

The average commute time in Solon is 23.6 minutes, longer than the 21.1 minutes in Ohio.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Solon, OH Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Solon, OH 22,750 23.6 min #2/2 23.1% #1/2 8:05 AM #2/2
Twinsburg, OH 21,734 21.6 min 19.9% 7:40 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Solon, Ohio.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,094 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical Ohio commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Solon, 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.

How common is public transit use in Solon, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Is Solon, Ohio a good location for remote and hybrid workers?

About 23.1% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Solon would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,438 at the same national wage assumption used above.