Elmont Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Elmont, 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 Elmont: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Elmont spend about 66 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 274 hours, about 11.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 15% more time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 4.2 minutes.

Elmont holds about 0.2% of New York's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Elmont would save about 110 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,396 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)
Elmont	32.9 min	65.7 min	274 hrs/yr	$8,490	2,572
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.

Elmont Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.9 minutes to get to work in Elmont. That's 47% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Elmont

Driving is 35% more common in Elmont than the New York average (74.5% vs 55.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Elmont: 7.2 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Elmont: just 2.1%, 3.1 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Elmont, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Elmont 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	73.4%	20.1%	1.8%	2.2%	1.6%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2010	74.9%	18.5%	1.7%	2.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.4%
2011	74.3%	20.0%	1.4%	2.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	74.4%	19.6%	1.2%	3.1%	0.7%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	74.1%	20.8%	1.1%	2.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
2014	73.6%	20.5%	1.9%	2.8%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	72.6%	21.5%	1.8%	2.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2016	72.8%	21.6%	1.9%	2.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
2017	73.0%	21.9%	1.8%	2.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	72.3%	22.1%	1.8%	2.6%	0.3%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	73.2%	22.1%	1.3%	2.4%	0.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	73.0%	21.3%	1.7%	2.8%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2021	74.8%	19.1%	3.0%	1.9%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	74.1%	17.1%	4.3%	1.7%	1.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%
2023	75.3%	15.0%	4.9%	2.0%	1.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	74.5%	13.7%	6.9%	2.0%	1.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2023 at 75.3% and lowest in 2018 at 72.3%. Overall it rose from 73.4% in 2009 to 74.5% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Elmont: its share of workers rose from 1.8% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 20.1% to 13.7% of workers (down 6.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Elmont

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Elmont?

The bars show when commuters in Elmont 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.5%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		12.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		6.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Elmont is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 11.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 42.4% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.2%) 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 Elmont, 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 Elmont 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 Elmont 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	Elmont	New York	United States
2009	7:50 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:52 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:30 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:27 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:31 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:54 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:52 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:56 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:56 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Elmont were on the road by 7:56 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:50 AM). The shift is sharper than across New York, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Elmont 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 Elmont has moved 29 minutes later.

How does Elmont's commute time compare?

Metric	Elmont	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.9 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.9%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.0%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	13.7%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Elmont is 32.9 minutes, longer than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

13.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 2.0% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Elmont, New York.

Is living in Elmont, New York good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 274 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,490 at a typical national wage. That's 15% more than the typical New York commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Elmont, New York?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Elmont, New York. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.