Milwaukie Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Milwaukie, Oregon: 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 Milwaukie: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Milwaukie spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.1 minutes.

Milwaukie holds about 0.5% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Milwaukie would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,611 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)
Milwaukie	25.3 min	50.5 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,528	2,240
Oregon	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,203	967
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.

Milwaukie Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.3 minutes to get to work in Milwaukie. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Milwaukie

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Milwaukie: 3.1 times less than the Oregon average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Milwaukie, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Milwaukie 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	Bicycle	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	82.0%	5.1%	3.8%	7.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	82.8%	5.2%	3.0%	7.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	82.1%	6.1%	2.9%	6.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2012	82.1%	5.9%	3.0%	5.8%	1.1%	0.4%	1.8%	0.0%
2013	84.0%	5.5%	2.7%	4.7%	0.7%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%
2014	82.6%	6.1%	2.7%	5.5%	1.2%	0.4%	1.4%	0.0%
2015	82.5%	5.7%	2.6%	5.1%	1.6%	0.8%	1.6%	0.1%
2016	82.0%	5.8%	2.2%	5.4%	2.0%	0.8%	1.9%	0.1%
2017	81.7%	6.6%	2.2%	5.8%	2.0%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%
2018	79.8%	7.2%	2.5%	6.5%	2.3%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2019	80.2%	7.1%	2.0%	6.7%	1.9%	1.4%	0.7%	0.1%
2020	76.9%	11.7%	2.0%	6.1%	1.5%	1.2%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	76.0%	14.4%	2.1%	5.2%	1.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	74.3%	17.0%	2.9%	4.2%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	72.1%	20.5%	2.8%	3.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	67.9%	23.6%	3.2%	2.6%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 84.0%. Overall it fell from 82.0% in 2009 to 67.9% in 2024, down 14.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Milwaukie: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 23.6% in 2024, up 18.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 7.5% to 2.6% of workers (down 4.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Riding a motorcycle peaked at 1.9% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 0.1%.

Commute Start Times in Milwaukie

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Milwaukie?

The bars show when commuters in Milwaukie 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 Oregon for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		16.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.0%

Milwaukie Oregon Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Milwaukie is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 16.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are about as common as in Oregon: 15.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Oregon: 51.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.1%) 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 Milwaukie, 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 Milwaukie 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 Milwaukie next to Oregon 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	Milwaukie	Oregon	United States
2009	7:31 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:35 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:37 AM	7:42 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:36 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:29 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:40 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:41 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:42 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Milwaukie were on the road by 7:33 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:31 AM). Oregon followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes later. Commuters in Milwaukie now leave 5 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Milwaukie has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Milwaukie's commute time compare?

Metric	Milwaukie	Oregon	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 min	20.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	23.6%	19.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.6%	2.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Milwaukie is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

2.6% commute by public transit, higher than the 2.2% in Oregon. 3.2% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Milwaukie, Oregon.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Milwaukie, Oregon?

Commuters here spend an estimated 211 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,528 at a typical national wage. That's 25% more than the typical Oregon commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Milwaukie, Oregon?

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