Mill Creek East Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Mill Creek East: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mill Creek East spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 9.0 minutes.

Mill Creek East 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 East would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,245 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 East	31.4 min	62.8 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,114	3,973
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 East Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.4 minutes to get to work in Mill Creek East. That's 40% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 32.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mill Creek East

Walking is unusually rare in Mill Creek East: 5.1 times less than the Washington average (0.6% vs 3.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Mill Creek East: 12.9 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Mill Creek East: just 0.6%, 5.7 times below the Washington average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Mill Creek East, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mill Creek East 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	Other	Walked	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	88.8%	3.8%	5.4%	1.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	87.0%	5.0%	5.7%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	86.0%	6.2%	6.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.9%	5.4%	6.3%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	85.4%	6.4%	6.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	85.0%	6.9%	6.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	84.0%	6.0%	7.4%	1.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	84.2%	5.1%	7.3%	1.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	1.2%
2017	83.7%	5.7%	7.4%	1.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	1.4%
2018	82.8%	7.0%	6.7%	1.0%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	1.5%
2019	82.6%	6.7%	7.0%	1.2%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	1.2%
2020	80.8%	9.5%	6.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	1.5%
2021	73.0%	19.0%	5.2%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	1.2%
2022	68.6%	25.4%	4.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	67.2%	27.4%	3.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	63.4%	32.3%	2.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 88.8% in 2009 to 63.4% in 2024, down 25.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 8 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mill Creek East: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 32.3% in 2024, up 28.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 25.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 5.4% to 2.3% of workers (down 3.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.5% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.0%.

Commute Start Times in Mill Creek East

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mill Creek East?

The bars show when commuters in Mill Creek East 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		7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.8%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mill Creek East is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are less common than in Washington: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 East, 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 East 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 East 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	Mill Creek East	Washington	United States
2009	7:23 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:23 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:18 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:39 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mill Creek East were on the road by 7:34 AM, 11 minutes later than in 2009 (7:23 AM). The shift is sharper than across Washington, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Mill Creek East now leave 4 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 Mill Creek East has moved 6 minutes later.

How does Mill Creek East's commute time compare?

Metric	Mill Creek East	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.4 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	32.3%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.3%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mill Creek East is 31.4 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

2.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 0.6% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Mill Creek East, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Mill Creek East, WA is typical in size for this group, 20,608 residents against a local median of 20,947, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Mill Creek East, WA breaks from the cities next to it is work from home, sitting 20% above the local median of 27.0% at 32.3%.

The cities themselves spread 3.2% on work from home, so Mill Creek East, WA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Mill Creek East, WA has the highest work from home of the 4 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Mill Creek East, WA	20,608	31.4 min #4/4	32.3% #1/4	7:34 AM #3/4
Mill Creek, WA	22,980	28.8 min	29.9%	7:23 AM
Martha Lake, WA	20,947	30.0 min	27.0%	7:38 AM
Silver Firs, WA	20,478	27.9 min	26.7%	7:30 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mill Creek East, Washington.

Is commuting expensive in Mill Creek East, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,114 at a typical national wage. That's 40% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Mill Creek East, Washington?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Mill Creek East, Washington. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much money can remote workers save in Mill Creek East, Washington?

About 32.3% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Mill Creek East would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,245 at the same national wage assumption used above.