Parkland Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Parkland, 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 Parkland: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Parkland spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 211 hours, about 8.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 13% more time on the road than the Washington average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 2.9 minutes.

Parkland holds about 0.5% of Washington's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Parkland would save about 84 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,618 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)
Parkland	25.3 min	50.7 min	211 hrs/yr	$6,544	3,591
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.

Parkland Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.3 minutes to get to work in Parkland. That's 13% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Parkland

Biking is unusually rare in Parkland: 28.2 times less than the Washington average (0.0% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Parkland, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Parkland 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	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.3%	3.1%	4.4%	3.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.8%
2010	86.9%	3.3%	4.5%	3.2%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2011	85.3%	2.9%	5.2%	4.2%	1.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.7%
2012	86.6%	2.8%	4.5%	4.3%	0.9%	0.0%	0.3%	0.6%
2013	87.0%	3.2%	3.7%	4.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.3%	0.5%
2014	83.3%	4.4%	5.4%	5.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.5%
2015	83.9%	4.4%	5.5%	4.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.2%	0.4%
2016	83.8%	5.1%	5.3%	4.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2017	83.4%	5.2%	5.5%	4.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%
2018	83.3%	5.1%	5.2%	4.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.4%
2019	87.2%	4.1%	3.7%	3.5%	0.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.3%
2020	84.8%	5.0%	4.6%	3.7%	1.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.2%
2021	84.6%	5.8%	5.0%	3.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2022	84.8%	7.2%	4.3%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.8%	7.2%	4.5%	1.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	85.5%	7.2%	4.3%	2.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2014 at 83.3%. Overall it fell from 87.3% in 2009 to 85.5% in 2024, down 1.8 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Parkland: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 7.2% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.1% to 2.2% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.5% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 4.3%.

Commute Start Times in Parkland

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Parkland?

The bars show when commuters in Parkland 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		11.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		9.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Parkland is 12:00-4:59 AM, when 11.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.1% across Washington. Early starts are more common than in Washington: 26.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 17.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Washington: 35.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 43.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.6%) 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 Parkland, 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 Parkland 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 Parkland 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	Parkland	Washington	United States
2009	7:35 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:29 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:29 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:24 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:14 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:16 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:20 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:20 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Parkland were on the road by 7:20 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:35 AM). That goes against the trend across Washington, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Parkland now leave 18 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 Parkland has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Parkland's commute time compare?

Metric	Parkland	Washington	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.3 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 AM – 04:59 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	7.2%	19.8%	15.0%
Walked	4.3%	3.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.2%	3.4%	3.2%

The average commute time in Parkland is 25.3 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Washington.

2.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.4% in Washington. 4.3% commute by walking, higher than the 3.0% in Washington.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Parkland, WA Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Parkland, WA	36,554	25.3 min #1/2	7.2% #2/2	7:19 AM #1/2
Spanaway, WA	32,774	31.5 min	10.0%	7:23 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Parkland, Washington.

Is commuting expensive in Parkland, Washington?

Commuters here spend an estimated 211 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,544 at a typical national wage. That's 13% more than the typical Washington commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 AM – 04:59 AM in Parkland, 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.