Orchards Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Orchards, 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 Orchards: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Orchards spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 187 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is about the same time on the road as the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way.

Orchards holds about 0.3% of Washington's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Orchards would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,314 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)
Orchards	22.4 min	44.8 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,785	3,237
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.

Orchards Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.4 minutes to get to work in Orchards. That's about the same as the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Orchards

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Orchards: 574201156905457.6 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Walking is unusually rare in Orchards: 5.4 times less than the Washington average (0.6% vs 3.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Orchards: 33.2 times less than the Washington average (0.1% vs 3.4%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Orchards: just 0.8%, 4.5 times below the Washington average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Orchards, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Orchards 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	Other	Walked	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	92.3%	3.7%	1.5%	0.7%	0.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	91.6%	3.3%	1.6%	0.9%	0.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.6%
2011	89.6%	4.5%	1.7%	1.0%	1.1%	1.5%	0.0%	0.6%
2012	90.1%	4.6%	1.2%	0.7%	1.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2013	89.6%	6.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.9%	1.4%	0.0%	0.6%
2014	91.3%	4.4%	1.0%	0.6%	0.8%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	91.1%	3.9%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	2.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2016	93.0%	3.4%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	2.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	94.2%	3.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	94.0%	2.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	93.0%	4.1%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	1.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	90.1%	6.5%	2.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	89.0%	8.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	87.0%	10.7%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.5%	12.7%	1.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	81.1%	16.1%	1.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	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 2017 at 94.2%. Overall it fell from 92.3% in 2009 to 81.1% in 2024, down 11.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Orchards: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 16.1% in 2024, up 12.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.1% to 0.1% of workers (down 1.0 percentage points).

Walking overtook public transit to become the 4th most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Orchards

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Orchards?

The bars show when commuters in Orchards 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		6.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		1.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Orchards is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 10.2% across Washington. Early starts are more common than in Washington: 19.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 46.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (22.1%) 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 Orchards, 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 Orchards 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 Orchards 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	Orchards	Washington	United States
2009	7:18 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:15 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:15 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:29 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:27 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:21 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:22 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:22 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Orchards were on the road by 7:22 AM, 4 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 Orchards now leave 16 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Orchards's commute time compare?

Metric	Orchards	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.4 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	16.1%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.6%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Orchards is about the same as in Washington.

0.1% 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

Orchards, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Orchards, WA	26,432	22.4 min #2/2	16.1% #2/2	7:22 AM #1/2
Vancouver, WA	192,630	20.2 min	17.9%	7:37 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Orchards, Washington.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Orchards, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 187 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,785 at a typical national wage.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Orchards, Washington?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Orchards, 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.

Do people use public transit in Orchards, Washington?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 3.4% in Washington, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.