Hoboken Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Hoboken: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hoboken spend about 81 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 336 hours, about 14.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 54% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 14.2 minutes.

Hoboken holds about 0.6% of New Jersey's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Hoboken would save about 135 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $4,171 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)
Hoboken	40.4 min	80.7 min	336 hrs/yr	$10,428	4,032
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.

Hoboken Commute Map

On average, it takes 40.4 minutes to get to work in Hoboken. That's 80% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Working from home is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 36.7% work from home. This differs from the national pattern, where driving is the most common commute choice.

How People Get to Work in Hoboken

• Worked at Home: 36.7%
• Public Transportation: 36.5% unusually high
• Car: 17.6% unusually low
• Walked: 7.5%
• Other: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.5%
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 75% less common in Hoboken than the New Jersey average (17.6% vs 69.9%).

Public transit is unusually common in Hoboken: 4.5 times more than the New Jersey average (36.5% vs 8.1%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Hoboken: 5.2 times less than the New Jersey average (0.1% vs 0.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hoboken, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hoboken 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Car	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	3.3%	55.9%	31.2%	8.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	3.2%	56.3%	29.4%	9.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	3.9%	56.0%	29.4%	9.5%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	3.7%	54.4%	31.0%	9.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	4.0%	55.0%	30.7%	8.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	4.1%	55.0%	31.0%	8.2%	0.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2015	4.2%	57.5%	29.6%	7.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	4.0%	58.8%	27.6%	8.2%	0.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	4.3%	60.9%	25.6%	7.8%	0.6%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	4.6%	61.3%	24.2%	8.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	5.5%	61.0%	23.1%	8.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	12.3%	52.6%	23.1%	9.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2021	22.1%	45.7%	21.1%	8.8%	0.9%	0.8%	0.5%	0.0%
2022	29.3%	40.5%	19.3%	8.5%	1.4%	0.7%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	34.2%	37.6%	18.3%	7.9%	1.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	36.7%	36.5%	17.6%	7.5%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving's share fell from 31.2% in 2009 to 17.6% in 2024, down 13.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hoboken: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 36.7% in 2024, up 33.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 31.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 55.9% to 36.5% of workers (down 19.4 percentage points).

Walking peaked at 9.8% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 7.5%.

The most common way to get to work changed: public transit led in 2009, while working from home led in 2024.

Commute Start Times in Hoboken

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hoboken?

The bars show when commuters in Hoboken 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	12:00-4:59 AM Hoboken1.4% New Jersey3.9%	1.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Hoboken2.1% New Jersey3.1%	2.1%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Hoboken1.2% New Jersey3.9%	1.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Hoboken4.3% New Jersey8.0%	4.3%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Hoboken7.1% New Jersey8.9%	7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Hoboken14.4% New Jersey14.2%	14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Hoboken15.5% New Jersey11.8%	15.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Hoboken25.5% New Jersey14.0%	25.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Hoboken10.8% New Jersey7.6%	10.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Hoboken10.1% New Jersey8.1%	10.1%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Hoboken3.4% New Jersey3.2%	3.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Hoboken0.6% New Jersey1.5%	0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Hoboken1.9% New Jersey6.3%	1.9%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Hoboken1.6% New Jersey5.4%	1.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hoboken is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 25.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New Jersey. Early starts are less common than in New Jersey: 4.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New Jersey: 62.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.6%) 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 Hoboken, 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 Hoboken 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 Hoboken 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.

• Hoboken
• New Jersey
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Hoboken	New Jersey	United States
2009	8:06 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:07 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:07 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:06 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:06 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:05 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:04 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:06 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:06 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:07 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:08 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:07 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:07 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:05 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:05 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:05 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hoboken were on the road by 8:05 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across New Jersey, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Hoboken now leave 27 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 Hoboken has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Hoboken's commute time compare?

Metric	Hoboken	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	40.4 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	36.7%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	7.5%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	36.5%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hoboken is 40.4 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

36.5% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 7.5% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau