Deer Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Deer Park, New York: 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 Deer Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Deer Park spend about 46 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 192 hours, about 8.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 20% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Deer Park holds about 0.1% of New York's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Deer Park would save about 77 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,380 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)
Deer Park	23.0 min	46.1 min	192 hrs/yr	$5,949	4,023
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.

Deer Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.0 minutes to get to work in Deer Park. That's 3% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 10.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Deer Park

Driving is 40% more common in Deer Park than the New York average (77.1% vs 55.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Deer Park: 25.0 times less than the New York average (0.2% vs 5.6%).

Biking is essentially absent in Deer Park, versus 0.8% in New York.

Few people walk or bike to work in Deer Park: just 0.2%, 28.6 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Deer Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Deer 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	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Walked	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	87.5%	3.2%	7.7%	0.1%	0.3%	1.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	86.3%	3.5%	8.7%	0.2%	0.3%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	85.4%	4.2%	8.8%	0.3%	0.1%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	86.3%	3.6%	9.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	86.8%	3.1%	9.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	87.6%	2.6%	7.8%	0.4%	0.0%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	88.0%	2.8%	6.5%	0.4%	0.0%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	88.0%	1.9%	7.1%	0.4%	0.0%	2.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	89.2%	1.1%	6.0%	0.9%	0.1%	2.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	88.6%	1.7%	6.3%	1.0%	0.0%	2.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2019	87.9%	1.8%	7.1%	1.0%	0.0%	1.8%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	88.3%	2.9%	6.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.3%
2021	84.1%	5.7%	7.9%	0.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.2%
2022	79.9%	7.1%	9.9%	1.9%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	79.3%	7.5%	9.5%	2.6%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	77.1%	10.7%	7.9%	3.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2017 at 89.2%. Overall it fell from 87.5% in 2009 to 77.1% in 2024, down 10.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 4 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Deer Park: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 10.7% in 2024, up 7.5 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 1.1% to 0.2% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 9.9% in 2022 and has since fallen back to 7.9%.

Commute Start Times in Deer Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Deer Park?

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

12:00-4:59 AM		6.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.4%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		12.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.2%

Deer Park New York Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Deer Park is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 12.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 11.9% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 40.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.4%) 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 Deer 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 Deer 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 Deer Park 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.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Deer Park	New York	United States
2009	7:51 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:52 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:00 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:00 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:02 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:05 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:06 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:04 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:59 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:00 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:00 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:54 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:50 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Deer Park were on the road by 7:54 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:51 AM). New York followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Deer Park now leave 17 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 Deer Park has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Deer Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Deer Park	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.0 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	10.7%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.2%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	7.9%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Deer Park is 23.0 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

7.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 0.2% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Deer Park, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Deer Park, NY compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Deer Park, NY	27,511	23.0 min #1/2	10.7% #2/2	7:54 AM #1/2
Dix Hills, NY	24,816	31.1 min	18.8%	7:56 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Deer Park, New York.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Deer Park, New York?

Commuters here spend an estimated 192 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,949 at a typical national wage. That's 20% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Deer Park, New York?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Deer Park, New York. 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.