Kenmore Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Kenmore, 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 Kenmore: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Kenmore spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.8 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Kenmore would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,914 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)
Kenmore	28.2 min	56.4 min	235 hrs/yr	$7,285	3,832
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.

Kenmore Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.2 minutes to get to work in Kenmore. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 32.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Kenmore

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Kenmore: 10410.0 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Kenmore, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Kenmore 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	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	83.6%	6.2%	7.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	83.3%	6.4%	8.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	83.4%	6.6%	7.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	81.9%	7.5%	7.7%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	81.2%	7.8%	8.1%	0.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	81.0%	8.0%	8.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%
2015	80.5%	8.5%	8.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	78.1%	9.5%	10.3%	0.3%	0.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	76.6%	9.2%	11.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	78.0%	9.0%	10.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	77.9%	8.9%	11.0%	1.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	71.9%	14.3%	10.9%	1.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	67.4%	20.9%	9.1%	1.7%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	64.5%	25.7%	7.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	62.2%	29.3%	6.0%	1.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	59.9%	32.6%	4.9%	1.4%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 83.6% in 2009 to 59.9% in 2024, down 23.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Kenmore: its share of workers rose from 6.2% in 2009 to 32.6% in 2024, up 26.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 23.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 7.6% to 4.9% of workers (down 2.7 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 Kenmore

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Kenmore?

The bars show when commuters in Kenmore 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		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.9%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		12.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Kenmore is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Washington. Early starts are less common than in Washington: 12.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 46.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.8%) 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 Kenmore, 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 Kenmore 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 Kenmore 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	Kenmore	Washington	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:39 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:47 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:01 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Kenmore were on the road by 8:01 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (7:44 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Kenmore now leave 23 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 Kenmore has moved 21 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Kenmore in the whole series.

How does Kenmore's commute time compare?

Metric	Kenmore	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.2 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	09:00 AM – 09:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	32.6%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.9%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Kenmore is 28.2 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

4.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Kenmore, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Kenmore, WA	24,544	28.2 min #2/2	32.6% #2/2	8:01 AM #2/2
Bothell, WA	53,988	26.5 min	33.3%	7:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Kenmore, Washington.

Is commuting expensive in Kenmore, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 235 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,285 at a typical national wage. That's 26% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Kenmore, Washington. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Kenmore, Washington?

About 32.6% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Kenmore would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,914 at the same national wage assumption used above.