Cowlitz County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Cowlitz County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cowlitz County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting.

That is 11% less time on the road than the Washington average of 22.6 minutes each way, a difference of 2.5 minutes.

Cowlitz County holds about 1.5% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 1.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cowlitz County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,083 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)
Cowlitz County	20.2 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,207	914
Washington	22.6 min	45.2 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,842	1,525
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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.

Commute Time Map: Washington Counties

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On average, it takes 20.2 minutes to get to work in Cowlitz County. That's 10% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.3% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 89.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.3%
• Walked: 1.0% unusually low
• Other: 1.0%
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Car commuting in Cowlitz County is 22% higher than the Washington average (89.8% vs 73.4%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Cowlitz County: 8.8 times less than the Washington average (0.5% vs 4.0%).

Walked commuting is unusually low in Cowlitz County: 3.2 times less than the Washington average (1.0% vs 3.1%).

Taxi commuting is essentially absent in Cowlitz County, versus 0.1% in Washington.

How does Cowlitz County's commute time compare?

Metric	Cowlitz County	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.2 min	22.6 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 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	7.3%	17.7%	13.4%
Walked	1.0%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	4.0%	3.5%

The average commute time in Cowlitz County is 20.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.6 minutes in Washington.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.0% in Washington. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 3.1% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau