Bay Shore Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Bay Shore: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bay Shore spend about 44 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 182 hours, about 7.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 24% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 6.9 minutes.

Bay Shore holds about 0.2% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bay Shore would save about 73 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,258 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)
Bay Shore	21.8 min	43.7 min	182 hrs/yr	$5,644	3,389
New York	28.7 min	57.4 min	239 hrs/yr	$7,414	1,586
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.

Bay Shore Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.8 minutes to get to work in Bay Shore. That's 3% shorter 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 9.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bay Shore

• Car: 79.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 9.9%
• Public Transportation: 4.4% unusually low
• Other: 2.9%
• Taxi: 1.8%
• Walked: 1.4% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bay Shore, versus 0.1% in New York.

Driving is 45% more common in Bay Shore than the New York average (79.5% vs 55.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Bay Shore: 3.9 times less than the New York average (1.4% vs 5.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Bay Shore: 5.0 times less than the New York average (4.4% vs 21.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Bay Shore: 5.6 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Bay Shore: just 1.6%, 4.0 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Bay Shore, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bay Shore 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.

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• Worked at Home
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• Walked
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Walked	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	86.7%	3.5%	6.3%	0.5%	0.7%	2.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	84.4%	3.2%	7.5%	1.6%	0.7%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	82.3%	3.2%	8.2%	3.0%	0.7%	2.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2012	81.8%	3.0%	8.2%	3.6%	0.8%	2.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	81.9%	2.7%	8.6%	3.6%	0.4%	2.1%	0.6%	0.0%
2014	81.1%	2.5%	9.4%	3.2%	0.5%	2.7%	0.5%	0.0%
2015	81.2%	2.9%	10.1%	2.1%	0.5%	2.7%	0.6%	0.0%
2016	82.9%	2.7%	9.4%	1.0%	0.6%	3.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	81.1%	3.7%	11.1%	0.6%	0.5%	2.6%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	80.8%	3.9%	10.6%	0.4%	0.5%	3.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	80.3%	3.3%	13.2%	0.3%	0.3%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	81.0%	4.3%	12.1%	0.3%	1.1%	0.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	80.7%	5.3%	11.9%	0.0%	0.8%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	80.3%	7.2%	8.0%	2.0%	0.9%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	80.2%	8.7%	6.4%	3.1%	0.8%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	79.5%	9.9%	4.4%	2.9%	1.8%	1.4%	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 86.7% in 2009 to 79.5% in 2024, down 7.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bay Shore: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 9.9% in 2024, up 6.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 6.3% to 4.4% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 3.4% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 1.4%.

Commute Start Times in Bay Shore

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bay Shore?

The bars show when commuters in Bay Shore 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 York for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM	12:00-4:59 AM Bay Shore4.3% New York3.9%	4.3%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Bay Shore5.0% New York2.9%	5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Bay Shore3.1% New York3.7%	3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Bay Shore12.4% New York7.5%	12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Bay Shore8.6% New York8.1%	8.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Bay Shore12.6% New York13.9%	12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Bay Shore7.3% New York11.1%	7.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Bay Shore15.7% New York14.0%	15.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Bay Shore6.7% New York7.7%	6.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Bay Shore8.0% New York9.5%	8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Bay Shore5.6% New York3.7%	5.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Bay Shore1.6% New York1.7%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Bay Shore3.4% New York6.9%	3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Bay Shore5.6% New York5.3%	5.6%

Bay Shore New York Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bay Shore is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 12.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.2%) 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 Bay Shore, 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 Bay Shore 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 Bay Shore next to New York 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Bay Shore	New York	United States
2009	7:50 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:45 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:46 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:41 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:52 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:44 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:51 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bay Shore were on the road by 7:46 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:50 AM). That goes against the trend across New York, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Bay Shore now leave 8 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 Bay Shore has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Bay Shore's commute time compare?

Metric	Bay Shore	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.8 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.9%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.4%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bay Shore is 21.8 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

4.4% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau