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Commute Time Burden in Coos County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Coos County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 146 hours, about 6.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the New Hampshire average of 22.5 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Coos County holds about 2.2% of New Hampshire's population but accounts for roughly 1.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Coos County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,808 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)
Coos County 17.5 min 35.0 min 146 hrs/yr $4,521 456
New Hampshire 22.5 min 45.0 min 188 hrs/yr $5,813 1,232
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: New Hampshire Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in New Hampshire
  1. Coos County (17.5 min)
  2. Grafton County (17.5 min)
  3. Cheshire County (18.6 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in New Hampshire
  1. Rockingham County (25.8 min)
  2. Sullivan County (23.5 min)
  3. Merrimack County (23.0 min)

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Coos County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 17.5 minutes to get to work in Coos County. That's 22% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Fastest county in New Hampshire

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 8.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Coos County

  • Car: 85.6%
  • Worked at Home: 8.0%
  • Walked: 3.9%
  • Other: 2.3%
  • Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Coos County: 5.1 times less than the New Hampshire average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Coos County, versus 0.1% in New Hampshire.

Biking is essentially absent in Coos County, versus 0.2% in New Hampshire.

Commute Mode Trends in Coos County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Coos 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 Taxi Bicycle
2009 88.2% 4.2% 4.4% 2.5% 0.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2010 89.0% 4.9% 3.7% 2.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%
2011 88.8% 5.2% 3.7% 1.9% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2012 88.8% 5.9% 3.5% 1.6% 0.3% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 89.5% 6.0% 3.2% 1.0% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 89.6% 5.7% 3.6% 0.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2015 89.4% 5.8% 3.5% 0.9% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2016 88.9% 6.4% 3.2% 1.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2017 89.5% 5.7% 3.2% 1.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2018 87.6% 6.6% 2.6% 2.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2%
2019 87.2% 7.4% 2.4% 2.5% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2%
2020 87.1% 7.2% 2.0% 3.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1%
2021 87.4% 7.3% 1.6% 3.5% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2022 86.5% 7.8% 1.7% 3.6% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 86.5% 8.2% 2.7% 2.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 85.6% 8.0% 3.9% 2.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 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 89.6%. Overall it fell from 88.2% in 2009 to 85.6% in 2024, down 2.6 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Coos County: its share of workers rose from 4.2% in 2009 to 8.0% in 2024, up 3.8 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.4% to 3.9% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Coos County

  • Early BirdThe earliest start among New Hampshire's 10 counties: half of commuters are on the road by 7:14 AM.
  • Dawn PatrolThe highest share of pre-6 AM departures among New Hampshire's 10 counties: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Coos County?

The bars show when commuters in Coos 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 New Hampshire for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
7.0%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.4%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.9%
6:30-6:59 AM
13.9%
7:00-7:29 AM
15.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM
5.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.7%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM
7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM
3.0%

Coos County New Hampshire Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Coos County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 15.1% across New Hampshire. Early starts are more common than in New Hampshire: 16.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush looks much like New Hampshire's: 48.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.0%) 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 Coos 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 Coos 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 Coos County next to New Hampshire 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 Coos County New Hampshire United States
2009 7:18 AM 7:34 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:16 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:16 AM 7:34 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:13 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:16 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:17 AM 7:33 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:21 AM 7:32 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:23 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:27 AM 7:33 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:29 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:29 AM 7:33 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:26 AM 7:32 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:21 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:21 AM 7:31 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:15 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:14 AM 7:31 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Coos County were on the road by 7:14 AM, 3 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:18 AM). New Hampshire followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Coos County now leave 24 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 Coos County has moved 15 minutes earlier.

How does Coos County's commute time compare?

Metric Coos County New Hampshire US Average
Avg. Commute Time 17.5 min 22.5 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 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 8.0% 16.8% 15.0%
Walked 3.9% 2.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.1% 0.5% 3.2%

The average commute time in Coos County is 17.5 minutes, shorter than the 22.5 minutes in New Hampshire.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in New Hampshire. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in New Hampshire.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Coos County, NH Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Coos County, NH is typical in size for this group, 31,270 residents against a local median of 30,464, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Where Coos County, NH breaks from the counties next to it is work from home, sitting 42% below the local median of 13.6% at 8.0%.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 17.5 min against a local median of 21.3 min, 18% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 18% below the local median it puts Coos County, NH at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 6.2% on work from home, so Coos County, NH sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Coos County, NH has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Coos County, NH 31,270 17.5 min #1/6 8.0% #6/6 7:14 AM #1/6
Essex County, VT 5,970 23.5 min 10.1% 7:21 AM
Oxford County, ME 59,255 23.4 min 13.6% 7:19 AM
Carroll County, NH 51,798 21.3 min 16.2% 7:29 AM
Caledonia County, VT 30,464 21.3 min 15.1% 7:19 AM
Franklin County, ME 30,413 18.7 min 13.0% 7:24 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Coos County, New Hampshire.

Is commuting expensive in Coos County, New Hampshire?

Commuters here spend an estimated 146 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,521 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical New Hampshire commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Coos County, New Hampshire?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Coos County, New Hampshire. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Coos County, New Hampshire?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.1% of commuters use it versus 0.5% in New Hampshire, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in New Hampshire?

Among counties in New Hampshire, the shortest average commutes are in Coos County (17.5 min), Grafton County (17.5 min), Cheshire County (18.6 min). The longest are in Rockingham County (25.8 min), Sullivan County (23.5 min), Merrimack County (23.0 min).