Mill Creek Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mill Creek: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mill Creek spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 240 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 29% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,979 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)
Mill Creek	28.8 min	57.7 min	240 hrs/yr	$7,448	4,135
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.

Mill Creek Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.8 minutes to get to work in Mill Creek. That's 29% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 29.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mill Creek

• Car: 64.3%
• Worked at Home: 29.9%
• Public Transportation: 4.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.6% unusually high
• Walked: 0.4% unusually low
• Other: 0.4%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Mill Creek: 3.5 times more than the Washington average (0.6% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Mill Creek: 8.3 times less than the Washington average (0.4% vs 3.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Mill Creek: 7.5 times less than the Washington average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Mill Creek: just 0.5%, 8.1 times below the Washington average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Mill Creek, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mill Creek 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	86.0%	5.7%	5.4%	0.2%	1.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.6%
2010	85.6%	6.3%	5.2%	0.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	84.6%	7.1%	5.9%	0.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.8%
2012	84.4%	6.8%	6.6%	0.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	86.5%	5.8%	5.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.7%
2014	85.9%	6.2%	6.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	84.4%	6.7%	6.2%	0.1%	1.6%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%
2016	84.5%	6.6%	5.8%	0.2%	1.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.4%
2017	85.2%	6.0%	5.6%	0.1%	2.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2018	83.9%	7.5%	5.7%	0.1%	2.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	82.9%	8.0%	6.1%	0.2%	1.8%	0.8%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	75.8%	16.9%	5.4%	0.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	70.8%	22.1%	5.1%	0.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2022	66.4%	26.4%	5.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.2%
2023	64.3%	28.8%	5.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	64.3%	29.9%	4.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2013 at 86.5%. Overall it fell from 86.0% in 2009 to 64.3% in 2024, down 21.7 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mill Creek: its share of workers rose from 5.7% in 2009 to 29.9% in 2024, up 24.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 21.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.4% of workers (down 1.3 percentage points).

Riding a motorcycle overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 6.6% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 4.3%.

Commute Start Times in Mill Creek

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mill Creek?

The bars show when commuters in Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek4.1% Washington7.1%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mill Creek4.5% Washington4.7%	4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mill Creek7.5% Washington5.8%	7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mill Creek9.8% Washington8.6%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mill Creek12.5% Washington9.5%	12.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mill Creek15.3% Washington12.4%	15.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mill Creek8.4% Washington11.0%	8.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mill Creek13.1% Washington10.2%	13.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mill Creek7.6% Washington5.5%	7.6%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mill Creek8.7% Washington7.5%	8.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mill Creek1.4% Washington3.5%	1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mill Creek0.9% Washington1.7%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mill Creek3.9% Washington6.9%	3.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mill Creek2.4% Washington5.6%	2.4%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mill Creek is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are less common than in Washington: 16.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 49.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.3%) 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 Mill Creek, 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 Mill Creek 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 Mill Creek 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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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Mill Creek	Washington	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:19 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:28 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mill Creek were on the road by 7:23 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:18 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Mill Creek now leave 15 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Mill Creek's commute time compare?

Metric	Mill Creek	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.8 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	29.9%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.3%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mill Creek is 28.8 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

4.3% commute by public transit, higher than the 3.4% in Washington. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau