Marysville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Marysville, 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 Marysville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Marysville spend about 57 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 237 hours, about 9.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 6.0 minutes.

Marysville holds about 0.8% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Marysville would save about 95 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,939 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)
Marysville	28.4 min	56.9 min	237 hrs/yr	$7,347	2,690
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.

Marysville Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.4 minutes to get to work in Marysville. That's 27% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Marysville

Commute Mode Trends in Marysville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Marysville 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle	Other	Taxi
2009	91.4%	2.7%	1.7%	2.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2010	90.4%	3.6%	2.2%	2.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2011	89.8%	3.9%	2.5%	2.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	90.6%	3.7%	2.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%
2013	91.1%	3.4%	3.1%	1.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	91.3%	3.1%	3.1%	1.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	91.7%	3.1%	2.8%	1.1%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%
2016	92.1%	3.3%	2.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	91.7%	3.5%	2.5%	0.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%
2018	91.6%	3.3%	2.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%
2019	91.9%	3.4%	2.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	89.2%	5.8%	2.2%	1.6%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	87.2%	8.1%	1.9%	1.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	85.6%	9.5%	2.1%	1.8%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2023	83.8%	11.7%	2.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	81.9%	13.7%	2.0%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 92.1%. Overall it fell from 91.4% in 2009 to 81.9% in 2024, down 9.5 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Marysville: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 13.7% in 2024, up 11.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 2.6% to 1.2% of workers (down 1.4 percentage points).

Public transit overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2012 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.1% in 2013 and has since fallen back to 2.0%.

Commute Start Times in Marysville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Marysville?

The bars show when commuters in Marysville 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		12.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		7.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		5.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Marysville is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 12.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.1% across Washington. Early starts are more common than in Washington: 26.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Washington: 33.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.8%) 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 Marysville, 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 Marysville 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 Marysville 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	Marysville	Washington	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:17 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:10 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:02 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	6:58 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:03 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:06 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:11 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:11 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Marysville were on the road by 7:11 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Washington, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Marysville now leave 27 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 Marysville has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Marysville's commute time compare?

Metric	Marysville	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.4 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.7%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.2%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.0%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Marysville is 28.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

2.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.2% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Marysville, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Marysville, WA	58,689	28.4 min #1/2	13.7% #2/2	7:11 AM #1/2
Lake Stevens, WA	31,540	30.9 min	19.8%	7:16 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Marysville, Washington.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 237 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,347 at a typical national wage. That's 27% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Marysville, Washington. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.