Cliffside Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Cliffside Park, 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 Cliffside Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cliffside Park spend about 65 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 272 hours, about 11.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 6.4 minutes.

Cliffside Park holds about 0.3% of New Jersey's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cliffside Park would save about 109 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,371 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)
Cliffside Park	32.6 min	65.2 min	272 hrs/yr	$8,427	2,772
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.

Cliffside Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.6 minutes to get to work in Cliffside Park. That's 46% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 18.1% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cliffside Park

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

Driving is 23% less common in Cliffside Park than the New Jersey average (53.9% vs 69.9%).

Biking is unusually rare in Cliffside Park: 4.4 times less than the New Jersey average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Cliffside Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cliffside Park 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	67.3%	24.7%	2.6%	3.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	66.0%	25.6%	3.2%	3.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2011	66.5%	25.3%	2.9%	3.7%	1.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2012	66.5%	24.9%	2.9%	4.2%	0.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%
2013	67.3%	25.7%	2.9%	2.8%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	62.3%	27.5%	4.1%	4.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%
2015	62.4%	26.6%	4.6%	5.2%	0.1%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%
2016	60.7%	28.5%	4.2%	5.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%
2017	60.2%	29.9%	4.2%	5.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2018	58.0%	31.1%	4.6%	5.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	62.7%	27.7%	4.5%	4.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	59.8%	25.8%	9.5%	4.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	57.6%	24.3%	11.0%	5.0%	1.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	56.0%	21.4%	15.0%	5.0%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	56.5%	17.6%	17.6%	5.3%	2.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2024	53.9%	20.4%	18.1%	3.9%	3.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 67.3% in 2009 to 53.9% in 2024, down 13.4 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Cliffside Park: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 18.1% in 2024, up 15.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 24.7% to 20.4% of workers (down 4.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.6% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 3.9%.

Commute Start Times in Cliffside Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cliffside Park?

The bars show when commuters in Cliffside Park 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		1.6%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		20.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Cliffside Park is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.8% across New Jersey. Early starts are less common than in New Jersey: 7.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New Jersey: 55.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Cliffside Park, 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 Cliffside Park 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 Cliffside Park 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	Cliffside Park	New Jersey	United States
2009	8:02 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:03 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:04 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:04 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:14 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:11 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:11 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:13 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:13 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:12 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:13 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:10 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:07 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:57 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:46 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cliffside Park were on the road by 7:44 AM, 18 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:02 AM). That goes against the trend across New Jersey, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Cliffside Park now leave 6 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 Cliffside Park has moved 29 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Cliffside Park in the whole series.

How does Cliffside Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Cliffside Park	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.6 min	26.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	18.1%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	3.9%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	20.4%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Cliffside Park is 32.6 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

20.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cliffside Park, NJ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Cliffside Park, NJ compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Cliffside Park, NJ	25,703	32.6 min #3/3	18.1% #2/3	7:44 AM #1/3
Palisades Park, NJ	20,140	26.0 min	12.6%	8:11 AM
Fort Lee, NJ	39,670	31.3 min	21.6%	8:10 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Cliffside Park, New Jersey?

Commuters here spend an estimated 272 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,427 at a typical national wage. That's 25% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Cliffside Park, New Jersey?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Cliffside Park, 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.