Mount Vernon Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Mount Vernon, 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 Mount Vernon: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mount Vernon spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 150 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.4 minutes.

Mount Vernon holds about 0.4% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mount Vernon would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,861 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)
Mount Vernon	18.0 min	36.0 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,654	2,341
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.

Mount Vernon Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.0 minutes to get to work in Mount Vernon. That's 20% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mount Vernon

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Mount Vernon, versus 0.2% in Washington.

Public transit is unusually rare in Mount Vernon: 5.9 times less than the Washington average (0.6% vs 3.4%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Mount Vernon, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mount Vernon 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	Walked	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	90.7%	2.8%	2.9%	2.4%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	91.0%	2.4%	3.0%	2.2%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	90.3%	3.2%	3.0%	2.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	88.8%	4.0%	4.0%	1.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2013	89.6%	3.5%	3.8%	1.9%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	89.6%	3.7%	3.4%	2.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.0%	4.2%	2.9%	1.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	90.2%	4.5%	2.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.2%	4.9%	2.2%	1.4%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	88.7%	6.1%	2.1%	1.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	89.7%	5.1%	2.3%	1.1%	1.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	87.2%	8.5%	1.9%	0.9%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.9%	10.0%	1.9%	0.8%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	84.9%	10.9%	1.8%	1.2%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	85.8%	11.0%	2.0%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	84.6%	12.7%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 91.0%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 84.6% in 2024, down 6.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mount Vernon: its share of workers rose from 2.8% in 2009 to 12.7% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.4% to 0.6% of workers (down 1.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2014 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 4.0% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 1.5%.

Commute Start Times in Mount Vernon

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mount Vernon?

The bars show when commuters in Mount Vernon 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		6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.7%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		10.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mount Vernon is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 11.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.0% across Washington. Early starts are about as common as in Washington: 17.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush looks much like Washington's: 42.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Mount Vernon, 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 Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon 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	Mount Vernon	Washington	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:31 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mount Vernon were on the road by 7:33 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). That goes against the trend across Washington, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Mount Vernon now leave 5 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 Mount Vernon has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Mount Vernon's commute time compare?

Metric	Mount Vernon	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.0 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	12.7%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mount Vernon is 18.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mount Vernon, Washington.

Is commuting expensive in Mount Vernon, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 150 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,654 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical Washington commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Mount Vernon, Washington?

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

How common is public transit use in Mount Vernon, Washington?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.6% of commuters use it versus 3.4% in Washington, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.