Maple Valley Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Maple Valley, 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 Maple Valley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Maple Valley spend about 74 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 309 hours, about 12.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 66% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 14.7 minutes.

Maple Valley 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 Maple Valley would save about 124 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,837 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)
Maple Valley	37.1 min	74.3 min	309 hrs/yr	$9,592	2,867
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.

Maple Valley Commute Map

On average, it takes 37.1 minutes to get to work in Maple Valley. That's 66% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 23.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Maple Valley

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Maple Valley: 20304423681549.1 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Maple Valley: 5.8 times less than the Washington average (0.5% vs 3.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Maple Valley: 4.7 times less than the Washington average (0.7% vs 3.4%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Maple Valley: just 0.8%, 4.4 times below the Washington average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Maple Valley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Maple Valley 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	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.0%	5.4%	3.5%	0.1%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.5%	4.8%	2.9%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.8%	4.4%	2.8%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.9%	4.3%	2.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2013	91.7%	3.9%	2.7%	0.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2014	91.1%	3.8%	2.5%	0.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2015	89.8%	4.7%	3.5%	0.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	87.5%	6.2%	4.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	86.3%	7.1%	3.4%	1.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	86.8%	7.0%	3.1%	1.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.5%
2019	87.4%	6.5%	3.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2020	84.7%	9.8%	3.3%	0.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2021	80.9%	14.3%	2.1%	0.8%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2022	78.0%	18.3%	2.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2023	77.0%	19.7%	1.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	74.5%	23.3%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2012 at 91.9%. Overall it fell from 90.0% in 2009 to 74.5% in 2024, down 15.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Maple Valley: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 23.3% in 2024, up 17.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.5% to 0.7% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Maple Valley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Maple Valley?

The bars show when commuters in Maple Valley 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		4.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Maple Valley is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are about as common as in Washington: 18.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 48.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.7%) 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 Maple Valley, 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 Maple Valley 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 Maple Valley 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	Maple Valley	Washington	United States
2009	7:06 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:09 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:06 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:06 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:03 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:00 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	6:59 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:05 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:05 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Maple Valley were on the road by 7:18 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:06 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Maple Valley 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 Maple Valley has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Maple Valley's commute time compare?

Metric	Maple Valley	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	37.1 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	23.3%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Maple Valley is 37.1 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Maple Valley, Washington.

Is living in Maple Valley, Washington good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 309 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $9,592 at a typical national wage. That's 66% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Maple Valley, Washington?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Maple Valley, Washington. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Maple Valley, Washington?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.7% of commuters use it versus 3.4% in Washington, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.