Dix Hills Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Dix Hills: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Dix Hills spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 259 hours, about 10.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Dix Hills 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 Dix Hills would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,218 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)
Dix Hills	31.1 min	62.3 min	259 hrs/yr	$8,044	3,363
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.

Dix Hills Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.1 minutes to get to work in Dix Hills. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 18.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Dix Hills

• Car: 70.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 18.8%
• Public Transportation: 9.1%
• Walked: 1.1% unusually low
• Other: 0.5%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Dix Hills, versus 0.1% in New York.

Driving is 28% more common in Dix Hills than the New York average (70.5% vs 55.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Dix Hills: 5.3 times less than the New York average (1.1% vs 5.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Dix Hills: 10.9 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Biking is essentially absent in Dix Hills, versus 0.8% in New York.

Few people walk or bike to work in Dix Hills: just 1.1%, 6.1 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Dix Hills, 2009-2024

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

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	83.3%	5.6%	10.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	84.4%	5.4%	9.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	83.5%	5.2%	10.4%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	83.2%	6.3%	9.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	83.6%	5.9%	9.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	83.1%	6.3%	9.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	83.7%	5.4%	9.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	84.1%	5.5%	9.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	84.4%	4.7%	10.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	83.9%	3.8%	11.3%	0.6%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	83.3%	4.4%	11.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	79.3%	9.1%	10.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	76.0%	12.7%	10.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	74.5%	16.5%	7.9%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	71.5%	18.9%	8.6%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	70.5%	18.8%	9.1%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	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 2010 at 84.4%. Overall it fell from 83.3% in 2009 to 70.5% in 2024, down 12.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 7 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Dix Hills: its share of workers rose from 5.6% in 2009 to 18.8% in 2024, up 13.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 14.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 10.0% to 9.1% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).

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

Commute Start Times in Dix Hills

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Dix Hills?

The bars show when commuters in Dix Hills 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 Dix Hills4.8% New York3.9%	4.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Dix Hills2.4% New York2.9%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Dix Hills2.8% New York3.7%	2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Dix Hills7.9% New York7.5%	7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Dix Hills8.7% New York8.1%	8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Dix Hills13.8% New York13.9%	13.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Dix Hills11.2% New York11.1%	11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Dix Hills13.4% New York14.0%	13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Dix Hills10.1% New York7.7%	10.1%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Dix Hills13.9% New York9.5%	13.9%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Dix Hills5.6% New York3.7%	5.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Dix Hills0.9% New York1.7%	0.9%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Dix Hills1.6% New York6.9%	1.6%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Dix Hills2.8% New York5.3%	2.8%

Dix Hills New York Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Dix Hills is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 13.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.5% across New York. Early starts are about as common as in New York: 10.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 47.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.8%) 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 Dix Hills, 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 Dix Hills 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 Dix Hills 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	Dix Hills	New York	United States
2009	7:55 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:05 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:08 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:09 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:08 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:07 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:02 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:58 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:59 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:58 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:05 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:03 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:01 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:54 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:01 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Dix Hills were on the road by 7:56 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 Dix Hills now leave 18 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 Dix Hills has moved 9 minutes earlier.

How does Dix Hills's commute time compare?

Metric	Dix Hills	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.1 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 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	18.8%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	9.1%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Dix Hills is 31.1 minutes, longer than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

9.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau