Hicksville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hicksville, 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 Hicksville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hicksville spend about 56 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 235 hours, about 9.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 2% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 0.5 minutes.

Hicksville 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 Hicksville would save about 94 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,910 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)
Hicksville	28.2 min	56.3 min	235 hrs/yr	$7,275	4,135
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.

Hicksville Commute Map

On average, it takes 28.2 minutes to get to work in Hicksville. That's 26% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 08:30 AM – 08:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 16.5% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hicksville

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

Driving is 22% more common in Hicksville than the New York average (67.2% vs 55.0%).

Biking is unusually rare in Hicksville: 6.6 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Hicksville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hicksville 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	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	81.2%	1.9%	13.0%	1.9%	0.3%	1.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2010	81.2%	3.4%	12.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%	0.2%
2011	82.8%	3.4%	11.2%	1.7%	0.3%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
2012	82.1%	3.6%	11.0%	1.9%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%
2013	80.1%	3.5%	11.3%	2.8%	0.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.4%
2014	80.8%	3.6%	10.5%	2.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%
2015	79.5%	2.8%	11.9%	2.9%	1.1%	1.1%	0.2%	0.5%
2016	79.0%	2.6%	12.0%	3.4%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%
2017	79.7%	3.2%	12.3%	2.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.4%	0.5%
2018	80.2%	3.9%	12.2%	2.3%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	78.0%	4.5%	13.8%	2.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	73.9%	6.8%	15.1%	3.1%	0.5%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	69.7%	10.1%	15.1%	3.6%	1.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	68.4%	13.6%	14.0%	2.7%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	67.5%	15.3%	12.9%	2.5%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	67.2%	16.5%	11.5%	2.4%	1.9%	0.4%	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 2011 at 82.8%. Overall it fell from 81.2% in 2009 to 67.2% in 2024, down 14.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hicksville: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 16.5% in 2024, up 14.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 12.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 13.0% to 11.5% of workers (down 1.5 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 3.6% in 2021 and has since fallen back to 2.4%.

Commute Start Times in Hicksville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hicksville?

The bars show when commuters in Hicksville 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		5.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		2.6%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		12.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.2%
4:00-11:59 PM		4.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hicksville is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New York. Early starts are about as common as in New York: 10.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 44.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.3%) 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 Hicksville, 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 Hicksville 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 Hicksville 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	Hicksville	New York	United States
2009	8:04 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:00 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:58 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:01 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:05 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:00 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:07 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:02 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:00 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:58 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:59 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:57 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:58 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:05 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:04 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hicksville were on the road by 8:04 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 Hicksville now leave 26 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 Hicksville has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Hicksville's commute time compare?

Metric	Hicksville	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	28.2 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	08:30 AM – 08:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.5%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	11.5%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hicksville is 28.2 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

11.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 2.4% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Hicksville, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Hicksville, NY compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Hicksville, NY	43,780	28.2 min #1/2	16.5% #1/2	8:04 AM #2/2
Levittown, NY	51,899	28.3 min	11.0%	7:51 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hicksville, New York.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 235 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,275 at a typical national wage. That's 2% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Hicksville, New York?

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