The invention discloses a local routing method for establishing a data route in a segmented mode in a WiMAX (wireless metropolitan area network) system, comprising the following steps that: a user transmits data to a BS (base station), the BS judges whether the local routing is started, if so, the BS local routing is performed, if not, the service data is transmitted to a service access gateway; the service access gateway judges whether the local routing is started, if so, the service access gateway local routing is performed, if not, the service data is transmitted to an anchor access gateway; the anchor access gateway judges whether the local routing is started, if so, the anchor access gateway local routing is performed, if not, the common routing is performed. The local routing method can be used for realizing the local exchanging of the local user data, establishing the most fast and effective data routing and expanding the system capacity.