Upper Arlington Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Upper Arlington, 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 Upper Arlington: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Upper Arlington spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 152 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.

Upper Arlington holds about 0.3% of Ohio's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Upper Arlington would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,884 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)
Upper Arlington	18.2 min	36.5 min	152 hrs/yr	$4,710	2,655
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.

Upper Arlington Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.2 minutes to get to work in Upper Arlington. That's 19% shorter 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 26.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Upper Arlington

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Upper Arlington: 3.5 times less than the Ohio average (0.3% vs 1.0%).

Commute Mode Trends in Upper Arlington, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Upper Arlington 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	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.5%	6.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	89.1%	7.6%	1.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	88.8%	7.1%	1.4%	0.5%	0.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	89.7%	6.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.2%
2013	88.8%	6.5%	1.5%	0.5%	0.7%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%
2014	88.8%	6.6%	1.5%	0.5%	0.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	89.3%	6.0%	1.8%	0.4%	1.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	90.3%	5.6%	1.5%	0.3%	1.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%
2017	90.0%	6.2%	1.4%	0.4%	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.3%	6.4%	1.4%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.2%	6.7%	1.3%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	86.4%	10.9%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2021	80.9%	16.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	76.8%	20.8%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.1%	23.9%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	70.8%	26.5%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.5% in 2009 to 70.8% in 2024, down 19.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Upper Arlington: its share of workers rose from 6.5% in 2009 to 26.5% in 2024, up 20.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 19.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 0.8% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Upper Arlington

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Upper Arlington?

The bars show when commuters in Upper Arlington 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		1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.9%
7:30-7:59 AM		18.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		24.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Upper Arlington is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 24.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.5% across Ohio. Early starts are less common than in Ohio: 4.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Ohio: 62.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.1%) 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 Upper Arlington, 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 Upper Arlington 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 Upper Arlington 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	Upper Arlington	Ohio	United States
2009	8:00 AM	7:42 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:00 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:01 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:01 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:00 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:02 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:04 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:07 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:06 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:03 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Upper Arlington were on the road by 8:03 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (8:00 AM). That goes against the trend across Ohio, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Upper Arlington now leave 25 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Upper Arlington's commute time compare?

Metric	Upper Arlington	Ohio	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.2 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	26.5%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	1.0%	3.2%

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

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 1.0% in Ohio. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Ohio.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Upper Arlington, Ohio.

Is commuting expensive in Upper Arlington, Ohio?

Commuters here spend an estimated 152 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,710 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 Upper Arlington, Ohio?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Upper Arlington, 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 Upper Arlington, Ohio?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 1.0% in Ohio, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How much money can remote workers save in Upper Arlington, Ohio?

About 26.5% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Upper Arlington would save about 61 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,884 at the same national wage assumption used above.