Fulton County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Fulton County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Fulton County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting.

That is 35% less time on the road than the New York average of 29.0 minutes each way, a difference of 10.1 minutes.

Fulton County holds about 0.3% 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 Fulton County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,944 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)
Fulton County	18.8 min	37.6 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,861	649
New York	29.0 min	57.9 min	241 hrs/yr	$7,480	1,586
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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 18.8 minutes to get to work in Fulton County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 6.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 89.3% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.4%
• Walked: 2.9%
• Other: 0.6%
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is essentially absent in Fulton County, versus 0.1% in New York.

Car commuting in Fulton County is 60% higher than the New York average (89.3% vs 55.8%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Fulton County: 65.9 times less than the New York average (0.3% vs 22.5%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Fulton County: 6.3 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

How does Fulton County's commute time compare?

Metric	Fulton County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 min	29.0 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.4%	13.4%	13.4%
Walked	2.9%	5.7%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	22.5%	3.5%

The average commute time in Fulton County is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 29.0 minutes in New York.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 22.5% in New York. 2.9% commute by walking, lower than the 5.7% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau