Genesee County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Genesee County, 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 Genesee County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Genesee County spend about 40 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 167 hours, about 7.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 30% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 8.7 minutes.

Genesee 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 Genesee County would save about 67 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,070 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)
Genesee County	20.0 min	40.1 min	167 hrs/yr	$5,174	912
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

Fastest commutes among counties in New York

Hamilton County (13.6 min)
Chautauqua County (15.4 min)
Franklin County (16.4 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in New York

Bronx County (43.2 min)
Queens County (41.8 min)
Kings County (41.6 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Genesee County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 20.0 minutes to get to work in Genesee County. That's 11% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Genesee County

Driving is 60% more common in Genesee County than the New York average (88.2% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Genesee County: 132.2 times less than the New York average (0.2% vs 21.7%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Genesee County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Genesee 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.

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	Walked	Other	Bicycle	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Taxi
2009	92.6%	2.6%	2.9%	0.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	2.4%	2.6%	0.5%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	92.5%	2.6%	3.0%	0.6%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	92.1%	2.7%	3.1%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	92.2%	2.9%	3.0%	0.6%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	92.3%	2.6%	3.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	91.7%	2.9%	3.4%	0.7%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	91.9%	2.8%	3.3%	0.7%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	91.7%	2.6%	3.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	92.1%	2.5%	3.2%	1.2%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	91.3%	2.9%	3.4%	1.3%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2020	90.8%	2.8%	4.4%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	88.8%	4.8%	4.2%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	89.0%	5.3%	3.6%	1.2%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	88.5%	6.2%	3.3%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	88.2%	6.7%	3.3%	1.1%	0.4%	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 2010 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 92.6% in 2009 to 88.2% in 2024, down 4.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Genesee County: its share of workers rose from 2.6% in 2009 to 6.7% in 2024, up 4.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking lost the most ground, falling from 0.9% to 0.4% of workers (down 0.5 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 4.4% in 2020 and has since fallen back to 3.3%.

Commute Start Times in Genesee County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Genesee County?

The bars show when commuters in Genesee 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		5.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.8%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.3%
8:30-8:59 AM		3.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.1%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.1%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Genesee County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 16.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 46.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (23.7%) 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 Genesee 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 Genesee 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 Genesee 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.

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

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Genesee County	New York	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:31 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:30 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:31 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:34 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:34 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:34 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:35 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:28 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Genesee County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across New York, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Genesee County now leave 11 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Genesee County has moved 7 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Genesee County in the whole series.

How does Genesee County's commute time compare?

Metric	Genesee County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.0 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.7%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.3%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Genesee County is 20.0 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 3.3% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Genesee County, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Genesee County, NY is typical in size for this group, 57,790 residents against a local median of 61,495, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Genesee County, NY's work from home, at 6.7%, runs 36% below the 10.5% typical of the counties around it.

The counties themselves spread 8.3% on work from home, so Genesee County, NY sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Genesee County, NY has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Genesee County, NY	57,790	20.0 min #2/6	6.7% #6/6	7:26 AM #3/6
Wyoming County, NY	39,775	21.2 min	7.2%	7:24 AM
Orleans County, NY	39,608	22.1 min	10.5%	7:17 AM
Livingston County, NY	61,495	22.6 min	8.6%	7:27 AM
Monroe County, NY	753,564	18.5 min	15.6%	7:49 AM
Erie County, NY	948,176	20.1 min	13.0%	7:52 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Genesee County, New York.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Genesee County, New York?

Commuters here spend an estimated 167 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,174 at a typical national wage. That's 30% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Genesee County, New York?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Genesee County, New York. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Genesee County, New York?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 21.7% in New York, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in New York?

Among counties in New York, the shortest average commutes are in Hamilton County (13.6 min), Chautauqua County (15.4 min), Franklin County (16.4 min). The longest are in Bronx County (43.2 min), Queens County (41.8 min), Kings County (41.6 min).