Bayonne Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bayonne, New Jersey: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Bayonne: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bayonne spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 256 hours, about 10.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 4.5 minutes.

Bayonne holds about 0.8% of New Jersey's population but accounts for roughly 0.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bayonne would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,173 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)
Bayonne	30.7 min	61.4 min	256 hrs/yr	$7,933	2,783
New Jersey	26.2 min	52.4 min	218 hrs/yr	$6,764	2,109
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.

Bayonne Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.7 minutes to get to work in Bayonne. That's 37% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 14.3% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bayonne

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bayonne, versus 0.0% in New Jersey.

Commute Mode Trends in Bayonne, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bayonne 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	65.7%	22.7%	1.6%	8.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2010	66.7%	21.7%	1.8%	8.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2011	65.3%	23.0%	2.1%	8.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	64.9%	23.1%	2.5%	8.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	64.6%	23.6%	2.6%	8.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	65.0%	23.4%	2.9%	8.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	65.9%	23.0%	2.7%	7.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	64.5%	24.0%	2.4%	8.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	64.4%	24.9%	2.0%	7.2%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	62.3%	26.0%	2.2%	7.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	61.8%	27.2%	2.3%	6.6%	1.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	61.7%	25.1%	4.6%	6.4%	1.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.2%
2021	60.6%	22.9%	7.9%	6.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2022	61.0%	20.1%	10.4%	6.4%	0.8%	1.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2023	57.0%	20.9%	13.3%	6.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	56.9%	19.9%	14.3%	6.3%	1.1%	1.0%	0.4%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 66.7%. Overall it fell from 65.7% in 2009 to 56.9% in 2024, down 8.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bayonne: its share of workers rose from 1.6% in 2009 to 14.3% in 2024, up 12.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 22.7% to 19.9% of workers (down 2.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Bayonne

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bayonne?

The bars show when commuters in Bayonne 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 Jersey for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.5%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		17.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.6%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.2%

Bayonne New Jersey Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bayonne is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 17.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New Jersey. Early starts are more common than in New Jersey: 12.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like New Jersey's: 49.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.4%) 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 Bayonne, 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 Bayonne 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 Bayonne next to New Jersey 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	Bayonne	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:39 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:43 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:39 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:42 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:42 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:38 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:52 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:53 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bayonne were on the road by 7:53 AM, 14 minutes later than in 2009 (7:39 AM). The shift is sharper than across New Jersey, where the typical start moved 2 minutes later. Commuters in Bayonne now leave 15 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 Bayonne has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Bayonne's commute time compare?

Metric	Bayonne	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.7 min	26.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.3%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	6.3%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	19.9%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bayonne is 30.7 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

19.9% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 6.3% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Bayonne, NJ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

Bayonne, NJ is the 4th largest of the 6 cities compared here, 71,520 residents against a local median of 137,246. The measure that sets Bayonne, NJ apart most is work from home: 14.3%, 97% above the local median of 7.3%.

The cities themselves spread 18.8% on work from home, so Bayonne, NJ sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Bayonne, NJ has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Bayonne, NJ	71,520	30.7 min #4/6	14.3% #3/6	7:53 AM #4/6
Jersey City, NJ	293,788	33.4 min	24.7%	8:10 AM
Elizabeth, NJ	137,246	23.1 min	6.3%	7:20 AM
Newark, NJ	309,652	30.2 min	7.3%	7:35 AM
Kearny, NJ	40,646	30.2 min	5.9%	7:42 AM
Harrison, NJ	20,334	36.8 min	19.8%	7:59 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bayonne, New Jersey.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Bayonne, New Jersey?

Commuters here spend an estimated 256 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,933 at a typical national wage. That's 17% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Bayonne, New Jersey?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Bayonne, New Jersey. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.