Pacific County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pacific County, 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 Pacific County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pacific County spend about 31 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 130 hours, about 5.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 6.8 minutes.

Pacific County holds about 0.3% of Washington's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Pacific County would save about 52 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,609 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)
Pacific County	15.6 min	31.1 min	130 hrs/yr	$4,023	458
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.

Commute Time Map: Washington Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Washington

Walla Walla County (12.2 min)
San Juan County (12.3 min)
Asotin County (13.2 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Washington

Mason County (32.0 min)
Garfield County (28.4 min)
Snohomish County (28.3 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Pacific County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 15.6 minutes to get to work in Pacific County. That's 31% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% of counties in Washington

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pacific County

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Pacific County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pacific County 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	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	83.0%	6.4%	7.8%	1.3%	0.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%
2010	85.4%	5.9%	6.8%	1.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	87.5%	4.9%	5.6%	1.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	87.5%	4.7%	5.6%	1.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	87.2%	5.1%	5.3%	1.5%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	88.5%	4.7%	3.2%	2.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%
2015	88.9%	3.9%	4.1%	2.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2016	88.6%	4.4%	3.5%	2.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	87.3%	5.8%	3.3%	2.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	88.5%	5.3%	2.8%	2.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	87.8%	7.2%	3.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	83.7%	9.7%	5.2%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	80.5%	12.2%	5.9%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	79.2%	13.8%	5.6%	1.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	77.9%	14.3%	5.7%	1.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	75.1%	16.5%	5.3%	2.0%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 88.9%. Overall it fell from 83.0% in 2009 to 75.1% in 2024, down 7.9 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pacific County: its share of workers rose from 6.4% in 2009 to 16.5% in 2024, up 10.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.8% to 5.3% of workers (down 2.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2016 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Pacific County

Rush-Hour RegularsThe 3rd-highest share of rush-hour departures among Washington's 39 counties: 51.1% of commuters leave between 6:30 and 8:29 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pacific County?

The bars show when commuters in Pacific County 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		6.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		4.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.7%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pacific County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 12.4% across Washington. Early starts are less common than in Washington: 16.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Washington: 51.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.7%) 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 Pacific County, 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 Pacific County 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 Pacific County 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	Pacific County	Washington	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:36 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:45 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:44 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:37 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:34 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pacific County were on the road by 7:33 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). That goes against the trend across Washington, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Pacific County 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 Pacific County has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Pacific County's commute time compare?

Metric	Pacific County	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	15.6 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.5%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	5.3%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.6%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pacific County is 15.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

0.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 5.3% commute by walking, higher than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Pacific County, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Pacific County, WA is the 5th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 23,983 residents against a local median of 53,499. Pacific County, WA's one-way commute, at 15.6 min, runs 42% below the 26.8 min typical of the counties around it. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 16.5% against a local median of 13.6%, 21% above it. The counties themselves spread 15.4 min on one-way commute, so Pacific County, WA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Pacific County, WA has the lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Pacific County, WA	23,983	15.6 min #1/6	16.5% #1/6	7:33 AM #5/6
Wahkiakum County, WA	4,646	26.8 min	16.2%	7:05 AM
Clatsop County, OR	41,354	16.5 min	13.6%	7:47 AM
Grays Harbor County, WA	77,052	18.1 min	10.3%	7:28 AM
Columbia County, OR	53,499	31.7 min	12.2%	7:11 AM
Mason County, WA	67,950	32.0 min	14.5%	7:09 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pacific County, Washington.

Is commuting expensive in Pacific County, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 130 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,023 at a typical national wage. That's 30% less than the typical Washington commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Pacific County, Washington?

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

Do people use public transit in Pacific County, 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.

Which counties in Washington have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Washington, the shortest average commutes are in Walla Walla County (12.2 min), San Juan County (12.3 min), Asotin County (13.2 min). The longest are in Mason County (32.0 min), Garfield County (28.4 min), Snohomish County (28.3 min).