Longview Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Longview: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Longview spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 136 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 6.0 minutes.

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

Working from home just 2 days a week in Longview would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,691 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)
Longview	16.4 min	32.7 min	136 hrs/yr	$4,228	2,140
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.

Longview Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.4 minutes to get to work in Longview. That's 27% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Longview

• Car: 90.2% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 7.3%
• Walked: 0.9% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.9% unusually low
• Other: 0.7%
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 25% more common in Longview than the Washington average (90.2% vs 71.9%).

Walking is unusually rare in Longview: 3.5 times less than the Washington average (0.9% vs 3.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Longview: 4.0 times less than the Washington average (0.9% vs 3.4%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Longview, versus 0.1% in Washington.

Biking is essentially absent in Longview, versus 0.6% in Washington.

Few people walk or bike to work in Longview: just 0.9%, 4.2 times below the Washington average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Longview, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Longview 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.

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• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
• Walked
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	93.2%	3.1%	0.5%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.1%
2010	92.5%	3.2%	0.4%	1.2%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	1.7%
2011	92.3%	3.5%	0.4%	2.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	91.7%	3.6%	0.6%	2.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%
2013	92.7%	2.8%	0.6%	2.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.8%
2014	91.4%	3.4%	0.2%	2.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	1.2%
2015	91.4%	4.4%	0.3%	2.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%	1.0%
2016	90.6%	4.7%	0.5%	2.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.9%
2017	90.3%	4.8%	0.3%	3.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.7%
2018	89.2%	5.3%	0.3%	3.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.9%
2019	90.3%	4.3%	0.4%	3.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	1.0%
2020	91.0%	4.0%	0.6%	3.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.6%
2021	89.1%	6.0%	0.5%	2.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%
2022	88.9%	5.9%	0.6%	2.6%	1.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2023	89.9%	6.3%	0.8%	1.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2024	90.2%	7.3%	0.9%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2022 at 88.9%. Overall it fell from 93.2% in 2009 to 90.2% in 2024, down 3.0 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Longview: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 7.3% in 2024, up 4.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.7% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.9%.

Commute Start Times in Longview

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Longview?

The bars show when commuters in Longview 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	12:00-4:59 AM Longview8.8% Washington7.1%	8.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Longview5.9% Washington4.7%	5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Longview6.1% Washington5.8%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Longview6.5% Washington8.6%	6.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Longview8.1% Washington9.5%	8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Longview12.6% Washington12.4%	12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Longview12.2% Washington11.0%	12.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Longview10.1% Washington10.2%	10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Longview4.5% Washington5.5%	4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Longview7.1% Washington7.5%	7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Longview2.5% Washington3.5%	2.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Longview1.5% Washington1.7%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Longview6.5% Washington6.9%	6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Longview7.4% Washington5.6%	7.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Longview is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are more common than in Washington: 20.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush looks much like Washington's: 43.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.0%) 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 Longview, 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 Longview 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 Longview 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.

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• Washington
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Longview	Washington	United States
2009	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:44 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:35 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Longview were on the road by 7:35 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:44 AM). That goes against the trend across Washington, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Longview now leave 3 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Longview's commute time compare?

Metric	Longview	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.3%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.9%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Longview is 16.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

0.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau