Palisades Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Palisades 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 Palisades Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Palisades Park spend about 52 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 217 hours, about 9.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% less time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 0.1 minutes.

Palisades Park 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 Palisades Park would save about 87 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,691 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)
Palisades Park	26.0 min	52.1 min	217 hrs/yr	$6,726	2,461
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.

Palisades Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 26.0 minutes to get to work in Palisades Park. That's 16% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 12.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Palisades Park

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

Biking is essentially absent in Palisades Park, versus 0.3% in New Jersey.

Commute Mode Trends in Palisades Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Palisades 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	72.6%	18.1%	0.9%	2.0%	6.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	69.6%	18.5%	0.8%	4.0%	7.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	69.4%	20.1%	0.6%	3.8%	5.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2012	67.8%	16.5%	1.1%	5.8%	8.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.7%
2013	67.0%	18.2%	1.7%	4.9%	7.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.7%
2014	70.2%	16.5%	1.6%	4.0%	6.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2015	70.1%	17.5%	2.2%	2.0%	7.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.6%
2016	68.0%	18.8%	2.7%	1.6%	8.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	67.1%	21.0%	3.5%	0.7%	7.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	68.0%	20.4%	3.8%	0.8%	6.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	64.0%	25.4%	3.7%	0.8%	5.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	63.5%	24.4%	6.4%	0.7%	4.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	67.2%	21.1%	7.3%	0.9%	3.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	68.3%	18.9%	8.5%	0.9%	3.0%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	67.2%	19.0%	9.9%	1.6%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.2%	14.1%	12.6%	3.0%	1.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2020 at 63.5%. Overall it fell from 72.6% in 2009 to 68.2% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Palisades Park: its share of workers rose from 0.9% in 2009 to 12.6% in 2024, up 11.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.5% to 1.9% of workers (down 4.6 percentage points).

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

Public transit peaked at 25.4% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 14.1%.

Commute Start Times in Palisades Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Palisades Park?

The bars show when commuters in Palisades 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		4.2%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		3.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		10.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		20.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		1.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Palisades Park is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 20.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 8.1% across New Jersey. Early starts are less common than in New Jersey: 8.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New Jersey: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 49.0% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (33.4%) 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 Palisades 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 Palisades 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 Palisades 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	Palisades Park	New Jersey	United States
2009	8:12 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:16 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:14 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:20 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:20 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:17 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:16 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:16 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:16 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:17 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:16 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:13 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:16 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:14 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:08 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:11 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Palisades Park were on the road by 8:11 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 Palisades Park now leave 33 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 Palisades Park has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Palisades Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Palisades Park	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	26.0 min	26.2 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 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	12.6%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	1.9%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	14.1%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Palisades Park is about the same as in New Jersey.

14.1% commute by public transit, higher than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 1.9% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Palisades Park, NJ Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Palisades Park, New Jersey.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 217 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,726 at a typical national wage. That's 1% less than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM in Palisades 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.