Broome County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Broome County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Broome County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 42% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 12.0 minutes.

Broome County holds about 1.0% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.6% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Broome County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,725 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)
Broome County	16.7 min	33.4 min	139 hrs/yr	$4,314	1,197
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.

Commute Time Map: New York Counties

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On average, it takes 16.7 minutes to get to work in Broome County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest counties in New York

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Broome County

• Car: 81.4% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 9.6%
• Walked: 4.3%
• Public Transportation: 2.6% unusually low
• Other: 1.1%
• Bicycle: 0.6%
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%

Driving is 48% more common in Broome County than the New York average (81.4% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Broome County: 8.4 times less than the New York average (2.6% vs 21.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Broome County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Broome County 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
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Bicycle
• Taxi
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	88.1%	4.4%	3.7%	2.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2010	87.9%	4.2%	3.8%	2.5%	0.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2011	87.8%	3.9%	3.9%	3.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	87.7%	4.0%	3.9%	3.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	87.6%	4.0%	4.1%	3.0%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2014	87.9%	3.7%	4.1%	3.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	87.6%	3.5%	4.5%	3.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	88.1%	3.2%	4.4%	3.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	88.8%	3.1%	3.9%	3.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	89.1%	3.0%	3.8%	3.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	89.1%	2.8%	3.9%	3.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%
2020	87.7%	4.5%	3.7%	3.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2021	86.2%	5.9%	3.6%	3.0%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2022	84.3%	7.0%	4.0%	3.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%
2023	83.0%	8.2%	4.1%	2.8%	0.9%	0.5%	0.5%	0.1%
2024	81.4%	9.6%	4.3%	2.6%	1.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 89.1%. Overall it fell from 88.1% in 2009 to 81.4% in 2024, down 6.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Broome County: its share of workers rose from 4.4% in 2009 to 9.6% in 2024, up 5.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Broome County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Broome County?

The bars show when commuters in Broome County 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 Broome County4.1% New York3.9%	4.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Broome County2.7% New York2.9%	2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Broome County4.3% New York3.7%	4.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Broome County6.6% New York7.5%	6.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Broome County9.6% New York8.1%	9.6%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Broome County13.3% New York13.9%	13.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Broome County15.6% New York11.1%	15.6%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Broome County11.7% New York14.0%	11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Broome County6.0% New York7.7%	6.0%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Broome County7.2% New York9.5%	7.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Broome County3.2% New York3.7%	3.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Broome County1.6% New York1.7%	1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Broome County8.1% New York6.9%	8.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Broome County6.0% New York5.3%	6.0%

Broome County New York Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Broome County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are about as common as in New York: 11.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New York: 50.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.0%) 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 Broome County, 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 Broome County 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 Broome County 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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• New York
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Broome County	New York	United States
2009	7:47 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:48 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:48 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:49 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:50 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:50 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:48 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:48 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:47 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:49 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Broome County were on the road by 7:48 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across New York, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Broome County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Broome County's commute time compare?

Metric	Broome County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.7 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 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	9.6%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	4.3%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.6%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Broome County is 16.7 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

2.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 4.3% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau