Harrison Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Harrison, 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 Harrison: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Harrison spend about 42 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 174 hours, about 7.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 27% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 7.8 minutes.

Harrison holds about 0.2% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Harrison would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,163 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)
Harrison	20.9 min	41.9 min	174 hrs/yr	$5,407	2,507
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.

Harrison Commute Map

On average, it takes 20.9 minutes to get to work in Harrison. That's 7% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Harrison

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

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

Commute Mode Trends in Harrison, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Harrison 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	Walked	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	69.0%	5.4%	17.4%	5.9%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	68.3%	4.3%	19.1%	5.3%	2.1%	0.0%	0.0%	0.8%
2011	67.8%	3.2%	19.2%	6.4%	2.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.5%
2012	66.2%	3.6%	19.4%	7.4%	2.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	66.4%	4.4%	18.5%	8.1%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	64.0%	4.5%	19.8%	8.9%	2.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	63.9%	5.6%	18.8%	9.7%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2016	62.6%	6.5%	20.6%	8.7%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	63.4%	6.6%	20.9%	8.2%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	61.7%	6.5%	23.5%	7.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	60.6%	6.3%	25.6%	6.8%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	59.8%	9.7%	23.6%	6.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	56.8%	13.8%	21.7%	6.9%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	54.5%	18.1%	20.6%	5.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	56.2%	19.2%	16.6%	6.1%	1.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	55.7%	22.7%	14.1%	5.6%	1.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2022 at 54.5%. Overall it fell from 69.0% in 2009 to 55.7% in 2024, down 13.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Harrison: its share of workers rose from 5.4% in 2009 to 22.7% in 2024, up 17.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 16.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 17.4% to 14.1% of workers (down 3.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 9.7% in 2015 and has since fallen back to 5.6%.

Commute Start Times in Harrison

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Harrison?

The bars show when commuters in Harrison 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		1.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		14.1%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		11.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Harrison is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New York. Early starts are less common than in New York: 6.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New York: 51.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.0%) 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 Harrison, 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 Harrison 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 Harrison 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	Harrison	New York	United States
2009	8:00 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:57 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:59 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:03 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:08 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:09 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:09 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:05 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:01 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:56 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:57 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:57 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 Harrison were on the road by 7:56 AM, 4 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:00 AM). That goes against the trend across New York, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Harrison now leave 19 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 Harrison has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Harrison's commute time compare?

Metric	Harrison	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.9 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	22.7%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.6%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	14.1%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Harrison is 20.9 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

14.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Harrison, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Harrison, NY compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Harrison, NY	29,883	20.9 min #1/3	22.7% #1/3	7:56 AM #2/3
White Plains, NY	60,573	21.8 min	22.0%	8:01 AM
Port Chester, NY	30,970	22.7 min	10.6%	7:49 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Harrison, New York.

Is commuting expensive in Harrison, New York?

Commuters here spend an estimated 174 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,407 at a typical national wage. That's 27% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Harrison, New York?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Harrison, New York. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much time do residents in Harrison, New York save by working from home?

About 22.7% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Harrison would save about 70 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,163 at the same national wage assumption used above.