Somerset Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Somerset, 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 Somerset: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Somerset spend about 58 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 240 hours, about 10.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% more time on the road than the New Jersey average of 26.2 minutes each way, a difference of 2.6 minutes.

Somerset 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 Somerset would save about 96 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,971 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)
Somerset	28.8 min	57.5 min	240 hrs/yr	$7,428	4,142
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.

Somerset Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.8 minutes to get to work in Somerset. That's 28% 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 working from home. About 20.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Somerset

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

Walking is unusually rare in Somerset: 3.2 times less than the New Jersey average (0.8% vs 2.6%).

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

Few people walk or bike to work in Somerset: just 0.8%, 3.6 times below the New Jersey average of 2.9%.

Commute Mode Trends in Somerset, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Somerset 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.1%	2.7%	5.6%	0.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	88.6%	3.0%	6.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2011	88.8%	3.3%	6.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%
2012	87.9%	4.3%	6.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	87.2%	4.9%	6.6%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	85.9%	4.7%	8.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	85.6%	5.0%	7.8%	0.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	84.3%	5.6%	8.4%	0.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	83.4%	4.4%	9.7%	0.1%	1.9%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	82.7%	4.8%	9.6%	0.1%	2.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	82.1%	5.7%	8.6%	0.0%	3.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	80.4%	7.9%	9.3%	0.0%	1.5%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	78.2%	11.7%	7.8%	0.1%	1.2%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	75.2%	15.4%	6.9%	1.0%	0.4%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	73.7%	17.5%	6.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	70.8%	20.6%	6.2%	1.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 90.1% in 2009 to 70.8% in 2024, down 19.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 13 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Somerset: its share of workers rose from 2.7% in 2009 to 20.6% in 2024, up 17.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 9.7% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 6.2%.

Commute Start Times in Somerset

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Somerset?

The bars show when commuters in Somerset 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		5.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		8.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Somerset is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 13.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New Jersey. Early starts are more common than in New Jersey: 14.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.9% there. The morning rush looks much like New Jersey's: 48.1% 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 Somerset, 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 Somerset 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 Somerset 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	Somerset	New Jersey	United States
2009	7:50 AM	7:48 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:55 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:49 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:55 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:01 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:01 AM	7:51 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:56 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:56 AM	7:51 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:56 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:50 AM	7:50 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:56 AM	7:49 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:49 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	7:48 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:41 AM	7:50 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Somerset were on the road by 7:41 AM, 9 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:50 AM). That goes against the trend across New Jersey, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Somerset now leave 3 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 Somerset has moved 15 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Somerset in the whole series.

How does Somerset's commute time compare?

Metric	Somerset	New Jersey	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.8 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	20.6%	16.8%	15.0%
Walked	0.8%	2.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	6.2%	8.1%	3.2%

The average commute time in Somerset is 28.8 minutes, longer than the 26.2 minutes in New Jersey.

6.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 8.1% in New Jersey. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.6% in New Jersey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Somerset, New Jersey.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 240 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,428 at a typical national wage. That's 10% more than the typical New Jersey commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Somerset, 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.