Issaquah Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Issaquah, 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 Issaquah: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Issaquah spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 5% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Issaquah holds about 0.3% of Washington's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Issaquah would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,434 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)
Issaquah	23.6 min	47.1 min	196 hrs/yr	$6,086	3,814
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.

Issaquah Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.6 minutes to get to work in Issaquah. That's 5% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 36.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Issaquah

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Issaquah, versus 0.2% in Washington.

Biking is unusually rare in Issaquah: 16.0 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Issaquah, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Issaquah 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	84.2%	5.1%	6.0%	3.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.7%
2010	83.6%	4.0%	6.0%	4.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.6%	1.5%
2011	84.2%	4.5%	5.9%	3.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%	1.4%
2012	84.1%	4.8%	6.7%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	1.3%
2013	82.9%	5.1%	7.9%	2.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	1.1%
2014	82.2%	6.2%	7.0%	3.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%
2015	81.5%	6.9%	7.8%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%
2016	79.6%	7.7%	8.1%	2.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.6%	0.6%
2017	77.6%	8.0%	8.4%	4.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.6%
2018	77.9%	7.3%	8.7%	3.6%	0.7%	0.0%	1.0%	0.8%
2019	77.0%	7.5%	10.4%	3.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.9%	0.6%
2020	68.8%	15.1%	9.9%	3.4%	1.9%	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%
2021	62.2%	23.3%	8.9%	2.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.3%
2022	60.1%	27.9%	6.8%	2.6%	2.0%	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%
2023	58.2%	34.2%	3.3%	2.2%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	57.8%	36.3%	2.5%	1.8%	1.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 84.2% in 2009 to 57.8% in 2024, down 26.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Issaquah: its share of workers rose from 5.1% in 2009 to 36.3% in 2024, up 31.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 28.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 6.0% to 2.5% of workers (down 3.5 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 Issaquah

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Issaquah?

The bars show when commuters in Issaquah 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		3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		6.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		14.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		6.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Issaquah is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 14.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.5% across Washington. Early starts are less common than in Washington: 6.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 47.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (31.7%) 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 Issaquah, 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 Issaquah 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 Issaquah 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	Issaquah	Washington	United States
2009	7:49 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:50 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:55 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:51 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:57 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:52 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:55 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:59 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:03 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Issaquah were on the road by 8:06 AM, 17 minutes later than in 2009 (7:49 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Issaquah now leave 28 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 Issaquah has moved 14 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Issaquah in the whole series.

How does Issaquah's commute time compare?

Metric	Issaquah	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.6 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 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	36.3%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.5%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Issaquah is 23.6 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

2.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Issaquah, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Issaquah, WA	24,985	23.6 min #1/2	36.3% #2/2	8:06 AM #1/2
Sammamish, WA	59,678	27.9 min	39.9%	8:13 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Issaquah, Washington.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Issaquah, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,086 at a typical national wage. That's 5% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Issaquah, Washington?

Traffic peaks between 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM in Issaquah, 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 Issaquah, Washington?

About 36.3% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Issaquah would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,434 at the same national wage assumption used above.