Bothell Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bothell, Washington: 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 Bothell: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bothell spend about 53 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 221 hours, about 9.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.1 minutes.

Bothell holds about 0.7% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bothell would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,739 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)
Bothell	26.5 min	53.0 min	221 hrs/yr	$6,848	3,435
Washington	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,785	1,525
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.

Bothell Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.5 minutes to get to work in Bothell. That's 18% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 33.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bothell

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Bothell: 7.8 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Bothell: 5.0 times less than the Washington average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bothell, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bothell 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	85.0%	6.2%	5.8%	1.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.3%
2010	85.1%	5.8%	5.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.1%	0.8%	0.3%
2011	84.7%	5.4%	6.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.5%
2012	83.6%	6.0%	6.8%	1.3%	0.9%	0.0%	1.0%	0.3%
2013	83.6%	6.6%	6.5%	1.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2014	84.4%	6.3%	6.2%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.4%
2015	84.7%	6.0%	6.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%	0.3%
2016	84.8%	6.0%	6.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2017	84.9%	5.5%	7.1%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%
2018	83.8%	5.7%	7.7%	1.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.9%	0.1%
2019	82.8%	6.4%	7.9%	1.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%	0.1%
2020	77.6%	12.4%	7.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.1%
2021	71.1%	20.1%	6.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2022	65.0%	27.0%	5.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%	0.1%
2023	62.1%	31.4%	4.3%	1.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	60.7%	33.3%	4.0%	1.3%	0.4%	0.2%	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 2010 at 85.1%. Overall it fell from 85.0% in 2009 to 60.7% in 2024, down 24.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bothell: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 33.3% in 2024, up 27.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 26.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.8% to 4.0% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Bothell

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bothell?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		5.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		11.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.7%

Bothell Washington Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bothell is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Washington. Early starts are less common than in Washington: 9.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 50.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Bothell, 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 Bothell 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 Bothell next to Washington 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	Bothell	Washington	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:37 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:38 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bothell were on the road by 7:56 AM, 21 minutes later than in 2009 (7:35 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Bothell now leave 18 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 Bothell has moved 18 minutes later.

How does Bothell's commute time compare?

Metric	Bothell	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.5 min	22.4 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	33.3%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.3%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.0%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bothell is 26.5 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

4.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.3% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bothell, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Bothell, WA compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bothell, WA	53,988	26.5 min #1/3	33.3% #1/3	7:56 AM #2/3
Kenmore, WA	24,544	28.2 min	32.6%	8:01 AM
Mill Creek East, WA	20,608	31.4 min	32.3%	7:34 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bothell, Washington.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Bothell, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 221 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,848 at a typical national wage. That's 18% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bothell, Washington?

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

How much time do residents in Bothell, Washington save by working from home?

About 33.3% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Bothell would save about 88 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,739 at the same national wage assumption used above.