Morristown Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Morristown, 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 Morristown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Morristown spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 168 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 23% less time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 6.0 minutes.

Morristown holds about 0.2% of New Jersey's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Morristown would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,082 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)
Morristown	20.1 min	40.3 min	168 hrs/yr	$5,204	2,607
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.

Morristown Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.1 minutes to get to work in Morristown. That's 10% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Morristown

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Morristown: 4.3 times more than the New Jersey average (0.1% vs 0.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Morristown: 3.9 times less than the New Jersey average (2.1% vs 8.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Morristown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Morristown 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	75.3%	3.7%	11.2%	5.8%	3.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	77.7%	3.4%	10.4%	4.4%	3.4%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%
2011	77.0%	3.3%	10.9%	4.4%	3.5%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%
2012	78.0%	3.5%	9.4%	4.4%	3.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.0%
2013	81.4%	3.2%	8.6%	5.1%	0.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%
2014	78.8%	4.2%	9.5%	5.1%	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%
2015	78.4%	4.7%	10.5%	4.5%	0.7%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	81.1%	4.4%	8.1%	4.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	80.2%	4.8%	9.0%	4.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	81.7%	5.7%	7.4%	3.4%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	82.8%	5.3%	6.5%	4.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2020	82.0%	8.5%	3.6%	4.2%	0.4%	0.1%	1.1%	0.0%
2021	79.3%	13.0%	3.7%	2.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%
2022	76.0%	14.8%	5.1%	2.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.9%	0.0%
2023	71.9%	16.9%	6.7%	3.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	71.7%	18.8%	6.0%	2.1%	0.7%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2019 at 82.8%. Overall it fell from 75.3% in 2009 to 71.7% in 2024, down 3.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Morristown: its share of workers rose from 3.7% in 2009 to 18.8% in 2024, up 15.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 13.5 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 11.2% to 6.0% of workers (down 5.2 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Morristown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Morristown?

The bars show when commuters in Morristown 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		0.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		1.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Morristown is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.2% across New Jersey. Early starts are less common than in New Jersey: 4.0% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New Jersey: 55.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.9%) 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 Morristown, 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 Morristown 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 Morristown 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	Morristown	New Jersey	United States
2009	8:05 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:01 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:58 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:54 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:56 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:57 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:01 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:51 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:47 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:51 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:52 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:59 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Morristown were on the road by 7:59 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:05 AM). That goes against the trend across New Jersey, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Morristown now leave 21 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 Morristown has moved 8 minutes later.

How does Morristown's commute time compare?

Metric	Morristown	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.1 min	26.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	18.8%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	6.0%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.1%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Morristown is 20.1 minutes, shorter than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

2.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 6.0% commute by walking, higher than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Morristown, New Jersey.

Is living in Morristown, New Jersey good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 168 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,204 at a typical national wage. That's 23% less than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Morristown, New Jersey?

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

How common is public transit use in Morristown, New Jersey?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 2.1% of commuters use it versus 8.1% in New Jersey, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.