Irondequoit Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Irondequoit: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Irondequoit 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 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 9.9 minutes.

Irondequoit 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 Irondequoit would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,942 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)
Irondequoit	18.8 min	37.6 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,855	2,510
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.

Irondequoit Commute Map

On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Irondequoit. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Irondequoit

• Car: 82.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 14.4%
• Walked: 1.7% unusually low
• Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
• Other: 0.3%
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Taxi: 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 51% more common in Irondequoit than the New York average (82.8% vs 55.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Irondequoit: 3.4 times less than the New York average (1.7% vs 5.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Irondequoit: 44.7 times less than the New York average (0.5% vs 21.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Irondequoit: 5.3 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Irondequoit: 23.2 times less than the New York average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Irondequoit: just 1.7%, 3.8 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Irondequoit, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Irondequoit 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.

• Car
• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Motorcycle
• Taxi
• Bicycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Motorcycle	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	92.5%	3.2%	1.7%	1.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2010	92.6%	3.1%	1.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2011	93.4%	3.1%	1.5%	1.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.3%
2012	94.0%	2.8%	1.0%	1.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.4%
2013	94.3%	2.5%	1.0%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.4%
2014	93.9%	2.8%	1.0%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2015	93.6%	3.2%	0.7%	1.2%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%	0.6%
2016	92.2%	3.5%	1.3%	1.6%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.6%
2017	91.9%	3.6%	1.2%	1.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.5%
2018	91.9%	3.8%	1.3%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%
2019	92.4%	3.7%	1.3%	1.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.3%
2020	90.8%	5.3%	1.2%	1.5%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2021	89.0%	7.9%	1.2%	0.5%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	87.5%	9.1%	1.6%	0.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.6%	12.6%	1.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2024	82.8%	14.4%	1.7%	0.5%	0.3%	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 2013 at 94.3%. Overall it fell from 92.5% in 2009 to 82.8% in 2024, down 9.7 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Irondequoit: its share of workers rose from 3.2% in 2009 to 14.4% in 2024, up 11.2 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.7% to 0.5% of workers (down 1.2 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Irondequoit

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Irondequoit?

The bars show when commuters in Irondequoit 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	12:00-4:59 AM Irondequoit3.8% New York3.9%	3.8%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Irondequoit2.3% New York2.9%	2.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Irondequoit3.1% New York3.7%	3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Irondequoit7.0% New York7.5%	7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Irondequoit12.2% New York8.1%	12.2%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Irondequoit17.4% New York13.9%	17.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Irondequoit15.3% New York11.1%	15.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Irondequoit14.1% New York14.0%	14.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Irondequoit6.8% New York7.7%	6.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Irondequoit5.5% New York9.5%	5.5%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Irondequoit2.6% New York3.7%	2.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Irondequoit1.3% New York1.7%	1.3%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Irondequoit5.0% New York6.9%	5.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Irondequoit3.7% New York5.3%	3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Irondequoit is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across New York. Early starts are less common than in New York: 9.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New York: 58.9% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (18.1%) 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 Irondequoit, 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 Irondequoit 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 Irondequoit 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.

• Irondequoit
• New York
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Irondequoit	New York	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:49 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:47 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:47 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:47 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:44 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:41 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:38 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Irondequoit were on the road by 7:38 AM, 10 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:48 AM). That goes against the trend across New York, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Irondequoit now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Irondequoit has moved 6 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Irondequoit in the whole series.

How does Irondequoit's commute time compare?

Metric	Irondequoit	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.4%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Irondequoit is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 1.7% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau