Woonsocket Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Woonsocket, Rhode Island: 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 Woonsocket: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Woonsocket spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 215 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Rhode Island average of 21.9 minutes each way, a difference of 3.9 minutes.

Woonsocket holds about 4.0% of Rhode Island's population but accounts for roughly 4.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Woonsocket would save about 86 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,668 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)
Woonsocket	25.8 min	51.6 min	215 hrs/yr	$6,671	2,353
Rhode Island	21.9 min	43.9 min	183 hrs/yr	$5,668	2,085
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.

Woonsocket Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.8 minutes to get to work in Woonsocket. That's 15% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Woonsocket

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Woonsocket, versus 0.1% in Rhode Island.

Commute Mode Trends in Woonsocket, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Woonsocket 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.7%	1.7%	1.4%	1.1%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.6%	1.9%	1.8%	1.8%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	92.3%	2.0%	1.9%	0.9%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.0%	1.9%	2.7%	1.2%	2.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	89.7%	1.9%	3.5%	1.2%	3.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	88.7%	2.4%	4.1%	1.1%	3.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	87.4%	2.5%	4.6%	1.5%	3.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	86.8%	2.5%	4.9%	1.5%	3.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	86.9%	2.7%	4.5%	1.7%	4.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.4%	2.6%	3.5%	1.3%	4.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.3%	1.8%	2.3%	1.7%	3.7%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	93.1%	2.0%	0.9%	1.1%	2.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	91.2%	3.3%	1.3%	1.2%	2.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	88.8%	4.1%	3.1%	1.3%	2.0%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	87.5%	4.5%	4.2%	1.9%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	84.8%	6.4%	5.1%	1.7%	1.3%	0.4%	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 2020 at 93.1%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 84.8% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Woonsocket: its share of workers rose from 1.7% in 2009 to 6.4% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 4.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.3% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Woonsocket

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Woonsocket?

The bars show when commuters in Woonsocket 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 Rhode Island for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

Woonsocket Rhode Island Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Woonsocket is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.9% across Rhode Island. Early starts are more common than in Rhode Island: 19.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 11.1% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Rhode Island: 42.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.4% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.1%) 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 Woonsocket, 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 Woonsocket 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 Woonsocket next to Rhode Island 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	Woonsocket	Rhode Island	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:46 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:49 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:29 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:24 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:48 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:43 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Woonsocket were on the road by 7:31 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). Across Rhode Island, the typical start barely moved over the same years. Commuters in Woonsocket now leave 7 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 Woonsocket has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Woonsocket's commute time compare?

Metric	Woonsocket	Rhode Island	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.8 min	21.9 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.4%	13.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	2.8%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	1.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Woonsocket is 25.8 minutes, longer than the 21.9 minutes in Rhode Island.

The share of commuters using public transit is about the same as Rhode Island. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 2.8% in Rhode Island.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Woonsocket, RI Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Woonsocket, RI compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Woonsocket, RI	43,521	25.8 min #1/2	6.4% #2/2	7:31 AM #1/2
Franklin Town, MA	33,154	31.2 min	22.1%	7:47 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Is commuting expensive in Woonsocket, Rhode Island?

Commuters here spend an estimated 215 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,671 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Rhode Island commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Woonsocket, Rhode Island?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.