Jefferson County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Jefferson County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Jefferson County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 143 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting.

That is 24% less time on the road than the Washington average of 22.6 minutes each way, a difference of 5.5 minutes.

Jefferson County holds about 0.4% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Jefferson County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,773 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)
Jefferson County	17.2 min	34.3 min	143 hrs/yr	$4,433	1,208
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

Compare commute times among different counties

On average, it takes 17.2 minutes to get to work in Jefferson County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM , followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 21.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 70.7%
• Worked at Home: 21.5%
• Walked: 4.4%
• Public Transportation: 1.5%
• Bicycle: 0.9%
• Other: 0.5%
• Motorcycle: 0.4%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

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

How does Jefferson County's commute time compare?

Metric	Jefferson County	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.2 min	22.6 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	21.5%	17.7%	13.4%
Walked	4.4%	3.1%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.5%	4.0%	3.5%

The average commute time in Jefferson County is 17.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.6 minutes in Washington.

1.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.0% in Washington. 4.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.1% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau