Edmonds Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Edmonds, 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 Edmonds: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Edmonds spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.1 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Edmonds would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,637 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)
Edmonds	25.5 min	51.0 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,592	2,504
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.

Edmonds Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.5 minutes to get to work in Edmonds. That's 14% 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 27.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Edmonds

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Edmonds: 254879.6 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Biking is unusually rare in Edmonds: 4.2 times less than the Washington average (0.2% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Edmonds, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Edmonds 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	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	83.8%	5.4%	8.1%	1.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	83.0%	5.6%	8.9%	1.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	81.6%	5.7%	9.6%	1.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	82.3%	5.8%	8.9%	1.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	81.3%	6.1%	9.2%	1.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.5%
2014	81.2%	6.2%	9.2%	1.5%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%
2015	80.3%	6.9%	8.6%	1.6%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2016	82.2%	5.9%	7.9%	1.7%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%
2017	81.3%	6.4%	8.5%	1.7%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%
2018	81.9%	5.9%	8.5%	1.6%	1.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	79.9%	7.1%	8.6%	2.3%	0.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	75.7%	11.7%	8.7%	2.3%	0.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	71.6%	17.2%	7.4%	2.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	68.7%	21.2%	6.0%	2.4%	0.9%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	66.4%	25.4%	4.0%	2.6%	1.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	65.2%	27.6%	3.8%	1.8%	1.3%	0.2%	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 83.8% in 2009 to 65.2% in 2024, down 18.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Edmonds: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 27.6% in 2024, up 22.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 20.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.1% to 3.8% of workers (down 4.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Edmonds

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Edmonds?

The bars show when commuters in Edmonds 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		3.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		14.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Edmonds 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: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 52.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.1%) 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 Edmonds, 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 Edmonds 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 Edmonds 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	Edmonds	Washington	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:26 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:32 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Edmonds were on the road by 7:44 AM, 9 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 Edmonds now leave 7 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 Edmonds has moved 13 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Edmonds in the whole series.

How does Edmonds's commute time compare?

Metric	Edmonds	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.5 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	27.6%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	3.8%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Edmonds is 25.5 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

3.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Edmonds, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Edmonds, WA is typical in size for this group, 42,432 residents against a local median of 41,626, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Edmonds, WA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 26% above the local median of 21.8% at 27.6%.

The cities themselves spread 10.0% on work from home, so Edmonds, WA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Edmonds, WA has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Edmonds, WA	42,432	25.5 min #1/4	27.6% #1/4	7:44 AM #3/4
Mountlake Terrace, WA	23,156	26.5 min	21.8%	7:35 AM
Lynnwood, WA	41,626	27.8 min	15.8%	7:31 AM
Shoreline, WA	59,587	26.5 min	25.8%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Edmonds, Washington.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 213 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,592 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Edmonds, 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 money can remote workers save in Edmonds, Washington?

About 27.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Edmonds would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,637 at the same national wage assumption used above.