Bristol Bay Borough Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bristol Bay Borough: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bristol Bay Borough spend about 15 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 63 hours, about 2.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 53% less time on the road than the Alaska average of 16.1 minutes each way, a difference of 8.5 minutes.

Bristol Bay Borough holds about 0.1% of Alaska's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bristol Bay Borough would save about 25 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $785 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)
Bristol Bay Borough	7.6 min	15.2 min	63 hrs/yr	$1,963	N/A
Alaska	16.1 min	32.2 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,157	583
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: Alaska Counties

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On average, it takes 7.6 minutes to get to work in Bristol Bay Borough. That's 66% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 7.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bristol Bay Borough

• Car: 58.6% unusually low
• Walked: 14.2%
• Other: 13.2%
• Worked at Home: 7.0%
• Public Transportation: 6.0% unusually high
• Taxi: 0.8%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Bristol Bay Borough: 361.4 times less than the Alaska average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Driving is 24% less common in Bristol Bay Borough than the Alaska average (58.6% vs 76.9%).

Public transit is unusually common in Bristol Bay Borough: 6.1 times more than the Alaska average (6.0% vs 1.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Bristol Bay Borough: 3.5 times less than the Alaska average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Bristol Bay Borough, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bristol Bay Borough 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.

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• Walked
• Other
• Worked at Home
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Other	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	81.9%	8.7%	1.9%	7.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	78.1%	12.4%	1.7%	7.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	82.6%	8.4%	1.8%	7.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	80.9%	9.5%	2.6%	7.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	84.3%	10.8%	2.0%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	84.5%	10.5%	2.5%	2.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	82.9%	8.9%	3.0%	5.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	80.9%	11.5%	2.8%	4.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	75.0%	17.6%	3.1%	3.1%	0.2%	0.0%	1.0%	0.0%
2018	74.1%	15.5%	3.1%	5.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%
2019	69.3%	18.2%	3.0%	8.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%
2020	74.8%	17.0%	1.8%	5.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	73.9%	16.6%	1.1%	8.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	74.4%	13.0%	2.3%	9.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	66.2%	10.1%	14.0%	8.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	58.6%	14.2%	13.2%	7.0%	6.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 84.5%. Overall it fell from 81.9% in 2009 to 58.6% in 2024, down 23.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Bristol Bay Borough: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 6.0% in 2024, up 6.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking peaked at 18.2% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 14.2%.

Commute Start Times in Bristol Bay Borough

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bristol Bay Borough?

The bars show when commuters in Bristol Bay Borough 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 Alaska for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough1.0% Alaska4.8%	1.0%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bristol Bay Borough6.9% Alaska3.6%	6.9%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough2.7% Alaska5.6%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bristol Bay Borough22.3% Alaska7.2%	22.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough4.2% Alaska8.6%	4.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bristol Bay Borough10.4% Alaska12.9%	10.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough24.0% Alaska17.1%	24.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bristol Bay Borough9.0% Alaska10.7%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough6.7% Alaska6.3%	6.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough5.8% Alaska7.1%	5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough1.9% Alaska3.4%	1.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bristol Bay Borough0.0% Alaska1.7%	0.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bristol Bay Borough3.1% Alaska5.6%	3.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bristol Bay Borough1.9% Alaska5.3%	1.9%

Bristol Bay Borough Alaska Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bristol Bay Borough is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 24.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 17.1% across Alaska. Early starts are less common than in Alaska: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.0% there. The morning rush looks much like Alaska's: 47.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.3% there. About 1 in 8 commuters (12.7%) 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 Bristol Bay Borough, 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 Bristol Bay Borough 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 Bristol Bay Borough next to Alaska 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.

• Bristol Bay Borough
• Alaska
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bristol Bay Borough	Alaska	United States
2009	7:55 AM	7:47 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:57 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:56 AM	7:46 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:57 AM	7:47 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:46 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:52 AM	7:45 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:45 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:52 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:48 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:45 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:45 AM	7:44 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:44 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:33 AM	7:43 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bristol Bay Borough were on the road by 7:33 AM, 22 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:55 AM). The shift is sharper than across Alaska, where the typical start moved 4 minutes earlier. Commuters in Bristol Bay Borough 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 Bristol Bay Borough has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Bristol Bay Borough in the whole series.

How does Bristol Bay Borough's commute time compare?

Metric	Bristol Bay Borough	Alaska	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	7.6 min	16.1 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.0%	9.7%	15.0%
Walked	14.2%	7.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	6.0%	1.0%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bristol Bay Borough is 7.6 minutes, shorter than the 16.1 minutes in Alaska.

6.0% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.0% in Alaska. 14.2% commute by walking, higher than the 7.2% in Alaska.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau