Keene Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Keene: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Keene spend about 24 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 98 hours, about 4.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 48% less time on the road than the New Hampshire average of 22.5 minutes each way, a difference of 10.7 minutes.

Keene holds about 1.6% of New Hampshire's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Keene would save about 39 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,215 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)
Keene	11.8 min	23.5 min	98 hrs/yr	$3,037	1,852
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.

Keene Commute Map

On average, it takes 11.8 minutes to get to work in Keene. That's 48% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 15.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Keene

• Car: 75.5%
• Worked at Home: 15.6%
• Walked: 7.1% unusually high
• Motorcycle: 0.7% unusually high
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Other: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Keene: 6.2 times more than the New Hampshire average (0.7% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually common in Keene: 3.1 times more than the New Hampshire average (7.1% vs 2.3%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Keene: 6.3 times less than the New Hampshire average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

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

Keene stands out for active commuting: 7.7% of workers walk or bike to work, 3.1 times the New Hampshire average of 2.5%.

Commute Mode Trends in Keene, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Keene 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi
2009	79.9%	4.1%	12.3%	0.1%	2.2%	0.4%	1.0%	0.0%
2010	80.1%	4.5%	12.8%	0.1%	1.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%
2011	80.0%	4.7%	12.7%	0.2%	1.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	82.2%	4.6%	11.6%	0.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	82.8%	6.2%	9.7%	0.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2014	82.1%	7.3%	9.0%	0.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	83.1%	8.1%	6.2%	0.1%	1.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	82.0%	9.2%	5.4%	0.0%	2.1%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	80.6%	9.1%	6.5%	0.0%	2.4%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	79.8%	9.0%	6.1%	0.1%	2.4%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	80.8%	8.6%	5.7%	0.1%	1.9%	2.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	78.1%	12.2%	5.6%	0.1%	1.3%	2.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	78.8%	12.4%	5.7%	0.1%	0.7%	2.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	78.7%	14.1%	4.0%	1.0%	0.6%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	80.1%	13.0%	5.0%	0.7%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	75.5%	15.6%	7.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2015 at 83.1%. Overall it fell from 79.9% in 2009 to 75.5% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Keene: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 15.6% in 2024, up 11.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 12.3% to 7.1% of workers (down 5.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2015 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Keene

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Keene?

The bars show when commuters in Keene 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	12:00-4:59 AM Keene4.4% New Hampshire5.2%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Keene2.5% New Hampshire4.0%	2.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Keene2.7% New Hampshire5.1%	2.7%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Keene5.9% New Hampshire8.9%	5.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Keene14.0% New Hampshire11.3%	14.0%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Keene11.1% New Hampshire15.1%	11.1%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Keene11.0% New Hampshire12.9%	11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Keene9.4% New Hampshire10.7%	9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Keene9.8% New Hampshire5.5%	9.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Keene7.8% New Hampshire5.8%	7.8%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Keene4.8% New Hampshire2.6%	4.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Keene1.1% New Hampshire1.5%	1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Keene8.9% New Hampshire6.7%	8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Keene6.7% New Hampshire4.7%	6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Keene is 6:30-6:59 AM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.3% across New Hampshire. Early starts are less common than in New Hampshire: 9.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.3% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Hampshire: 45.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 50.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (29.3%) 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 Keene, 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 Keene 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 Keene 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.

• Keene
• New Hampshire
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Keene	New Hampshire	United States
2009	7:57 AM	7:34 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:02 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:02 AM	7:34 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:59 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:56 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:52 AM	7:32 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:33 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:01 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:00 AM	7:33 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:58 AM	7:32 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:57 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:31 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:58 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:31 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Keene were on the road by 7:56 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:57 AM). New Hampshire followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes earlier. Commuters in Keene now leave 18 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Keene has moved 4 minutes earlier.

How does Keene's commute time compare?

Metric	Keene	New Hampshire	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	11.8 min	22.5 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	15.6%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	7.1%	2.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	< 0.1%	0.5%	3.2%

The average commute time in Keene is 11.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.5 minutes in New Hampshire.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 0.5% in New Hampshire. 7.1% commute by walking, higher than the 2.3% in New Hampshire.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau