Chemung County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Chemung County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Chemung County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 141 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 11.8 minutes.

Chemung County holds about 0.4% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Chemung County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,749 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)
Chemung County	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,373	1,026
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 16.9 minutes to get to work in Chemung County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 90% of 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 8.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Chemung County

• Car: 86.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 8.2%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Public Transportation: 1.3% unusually low
• Other: 1.0%
• Motorcycle: 0.5% unusually high
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Chemung County: 6.2 times more than the New York average (0.5% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 58% more common in Chemung County than the New York average (86.8% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Chemung County: 16.2 times less than the New York average (1.3% vs 21.7%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Chemung County, versus 0.7% in New York.

Biking is unusually rare in Chemung County: 17.2 times less than the New York average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Chemung County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Chemung 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
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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	90.0%	3.2%	3.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	90.5%	3.1%	3.9%	1.2%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	90.6%	2.4%	3.9%	1.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	91.0%	2.4%	3.5%	1.7%	0.7%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2013	91.1%	2.4%	3.5%	1.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	91.4%	2.5%	3.3%	1.7%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.3%
2015	91.4%	2.3%	3.3%	2.0%	0.3%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2016	91.8%	2.4%	3.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2017	91.4%	2.3%	3.2%	2.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2018	91.9%	2.2%	3.1%	1.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
2019	91.1%	2.2%	3.4%	2.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%	0.5%
2020	90.2%	3.6%	3.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%
2021	88.9%	5.0%	3.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%
2022	88.4%	5.9%	2.5%	1.2%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%
2023	87.1%	7.1%	2.5%	1.5%	0.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2024	86.8%	8.2%	2.2%	1.3%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 91.9%. Overall it fell from 90.0% in 2009 to 86.8% in 2024, down 3.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Chemung County: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 8.2% in 2024, up 5.0 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 2.2% of workers (down 1.7 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 Chemung County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Chemung County?

The bars show when commuters in Chemung 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 Chemung County3.9% New York3.9%	3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Chemung County2.6% New York2.9%	2.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Chemung County5.3% New York3.7%	5.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Chemung County7.8% New York7.5%	7.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Chemung County9.1% New York8.1%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Chemung County12.7% New York13.9%	12.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Chemung County19.0% New York11.1%	19.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Chemung County10.4% New York14.0%	10.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Chemung County4.1% New York7.7%	4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Chemung County4.2% New York9.5%	4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Chemung County2.7% New York3.7%	2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Chemung County1.3% New York1.7%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Chemung County9.1% New York6.9%	9.1%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Chemung County7.7% New York5.3%	7.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Chemung County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 19.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New York: 51.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.9%) 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 Chemung 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 Chemung 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 Chemung 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
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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Chemung County	New York	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:33 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:40 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:42 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:44 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Chemung County were on the road by 7:44 AM, 1 minute later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). New York followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Chemung County now leave 6 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Chemung County in the whole series.

How does Chemung County's commute time compare?

Metric	Chemung County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 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	8.2%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.3%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Chemung County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau