Frederickson Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Frederickson, 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 Frederickson: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Frederickson spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 270 hours, about 11.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 45% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 10.0 minutes.

Frederickson holds about 0.3% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Frederickson would save about 108 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,344 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)
Frederickson	32.4 min	64.7 min	270 hrs/yr	$8,360	4,367
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.

Frederickson Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.4 minutes to get to work in Frederickson. That's 44% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Frederickson

Biking is unusually rare in Frederickson: 13.1 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Frederickson: just 1.1%, 3.4 times below the Washington average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Frederickson, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Frederickson 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	92.7%	3.0%	2.5%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	91.7%	3.0%	2.7%	0.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2011	90.9%	3.6%	2.2%	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.6%	0.5%
2012	90.3%	4.3%	2.2%	1.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.4%
2013	91.5%	4.2%	1.7%	0.8%	0.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2014	91.8%	4.5%	1.2%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2015	91.1%	5.6%	2.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	91.3%	5.0%	2.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	92.7%	3.8%	2.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	91.9%	3.7%	3.4%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	91.4%	4.6%	3.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	90.2%	5.0%	3.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	88.5%	6.5%	3.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	85.7%	9.6%	2.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	84.5%	10.9%	2.3%	0.7%	1.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2024	85.2%	9.9%	2.3%	1.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 84.5%. Overall it fell from 92.7% in 2009 to 85.2% in 2024, down 7.5 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Frederickson: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 6.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit peaked at 3.5% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 2.3%.

Commute Start Times in Frederickson

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Frederickson?

The bars show when commuters in Frederickson 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		10.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Frederickson is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 11.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are more common than in Washington: 24.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Washington: 33.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (28.7%) 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 Frederickson, 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 Frederickson 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 Frederickson 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	Frederickson	Washington	United States
2009	7:08 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:08 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:12 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:10 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:03 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:04 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:09 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:12 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Frederickson were on the road by 7:19 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:08 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Frederickson now leave 19 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 Frederickson has moved 15 minutes later.

How does Frederickson's commute time compare?

Metric	Frederickson	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.4 min	22.4 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	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.0%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Frederickson is 32.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

2.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.0% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frederickson, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Frederickson, WA compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Frederickson, WA	25,107	32.4 min #2/2	9.9% #2/2	7:18 AM #1/2
Spanaway, WA	32,774	31.5 min	10.0%	7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Frederickson, Washington.

Is commuting expensive in Frederickson, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 270 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,360 at a typical national wage. That's 45% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Frederickson, Washington?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Frederickson, Washington. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.