Commute Time Burden in Newark: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Newark spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 140 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting.
That is 24% less time on the road than the Delaware average of 22.1 minutes each way, a difference of 5.3 minutes.
Newark holds about 3.0% of Delaware's population but accounts for roughly 2.3% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Newark would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,735 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) |
| Newark |
16.8 min |
33.6 min |
140 hrs/yr |
$4,339 |
2,587 |
| Delaware |
22.1 min |
44.1 min |
184 hrs/yr |
$5,700 |
1,341 |
| United States |
22.5 min |
44.9 min |
187 hrs/yr |
$5,803 |
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.
Newark Commute Map
On average, it takes
16.8
minutes to get to work in
Newark.
That's 25% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
,
followed by
09:00 AM – 09:59 AM
.
Most people travel to work by
Car
, followed by
Worked at Home
.
About 17.4%
work from home.
Commute mode distribution
-
Car:
63.5%
unusually low
-
Worked at Home:
17.4%
-
Walked:
14.0%
unusually high
-
Public Transportation:
2.5%
-
Bicycle:
2.1%
unusually high
-
Other:
0.4%
-
Motorcycle:
< 0.1%
-
Taxi:
< 0.1%
unusually low
Car commuting in Newark is 22% lower than the Delaware average (63.5% vs 81.4%).
Walked commuting is unusually common in Newark: 6.9 times more than the Delaware average (14.0% vs 2.0%).
Taxi commuting is unusually low in Newark: 2100171.9 times less than the Delaware average (0.0% vs 0.2%).
Bicycle commuting is unusually common in Newark: 7.4 times more than the Delaware average (2.1% vs 0.3%).
Newark stands out for active commuting: 16.1% of workers walk or bike to work, 7.0 times the Delaware average of 2.3%.
How does Newark's commute time compare?
| Metric |
Newark |
Delaware |
US Average |
| Avg. Commute Time |
16.8 min |
22.1 min |
22.5 min |
| Departure Window |
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM |
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM |
| Secondary Departure Window |
09:00 AM – 09:59 AM |
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM |
| Work From Home |
17.4% |
13.3% |
13.4% |
| Walked |
14.0% |
2.0% |
2.4% |
| Public Transit |
2.5% |
1.8% |
3.5% |
The average commute time in Newark is 16.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.1 minutes in Delaware.
2.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 1.8% in Delaware. 14.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.0% in Delaware.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau