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Commuting in Lockport, 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 Lockport: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Lockport spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 196 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 5.2 minutes.

Lockport holds about 0.1% of New York's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Lockport would save about 78 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,428 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)
Lockport 23.5 min 47.0 min 196 hrs/yr $6,070 1,957
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.

Lockport Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.5 minutes to get to work in Lockport. That's 5% longer 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 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Lockport

  • Car: 84.3% unusually high
  • Worked at Home: 9.0%
  • Walked: 4.1%
  • Other: 1.7%
  • Taxi: 0.6%
  • Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 53% more common in Lockport than the New York average (84.3% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is essentially absent in Lockport, versus 21.7% in New York.

Biking is unusually rare in Lockport: 3.9 times less than the New York average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Lockport, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Lockport 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 Taxi Bicycle Public Transportation Motorcycle
2009 91.9% 1.3% 3.7% 0.5% 0.0% 0.8% 1.5% 0.3%
2010 90.3% 1.3% 4.9% 0.2% 0.0% 1.0% 1.9% 0.4%
2011 90.3% 1.6% 5.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.6% 1.8% 0.1%
2012 91.0% 1.6% 4.8% 0.2% 0.1% 0.6% 1.5% 0.1%
2013 91.2% 2.0% 4.2% 0.8% 0.1% 0.4% 1.4% 0.0%
2014 91.4% 2.2% 4.1% 0.8% 0.1% 0.5% 0.9% 0.0%
2015 93.2% 1.9% 3.0% 1.1% 0.1% 0.4% 0.2% 0.2%
2016 93.6% 1.9% 2.2% 1.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3%
2017 93.3% 2.3% 2.1% 1.4% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3%
2018 93.6% 2.2% 2.4% 0.8% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
2019 92.7% 1.8% 2.9% 1.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
2020 89.6% 4.4% 3.0% 2.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1%
2021 88.9% 6.1% 2.8% 1.6% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3% 0.0%
2022 86.3% 7.4% 3.8% 1.8% 0.3% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0%
2023 84.4% 8.9% 3.7% 2.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 84.3% 9.0% 4.1% 1.7% 0.6% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 93.6%. Overall it fell from 91.9% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 7.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Lockport: its share of workers rose from 1.3% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 7.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.5% to 0.0% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Walking peaked at 5.4% in 2011 and has since fallen back to 4.1%.

Commute Start Times in Lockport

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Lockport?

The bars show when commuters in Lockport 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
3.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5.2%
6:00-6:29 AM
7.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
11.0%
7:00-7:29 AM
19.3%
7:30-7:59 AM
7.8%
8:00-8:29 AM
9.4%
8:30-8:59 AM
5.6%
9:00-9:59 AM
5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM
2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
10.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Lockport is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 19.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 11.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 47.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.1%) 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 Lockport, 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 Lockport 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 Lockport 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 Lockport New York United States
2009 7:48 AM 7:54 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:55 AM 7:54 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:47 AM 7:54 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:49 AM 7:55 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:42 AM 7:56 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:39 AM 7:56 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:37 AM 7:56 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:33 AM 7:56 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:29 AM 7:56 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:30 AM 7:55 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:33 AM 7:55 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:33 AM 7:55 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:42 AM 7:55 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:42 AM 7:56 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:44 AM 7:56 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:34 AM 7:57 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Lockport were on the road by 7:34 AM, 15 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 Lockport now leave 4 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Lockport's commute time compare?

Metric Lockport New York US Average
Avg. Commute Time 23.5 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 9.0% 15.0% 15.0%
Walked 4.1% 5.6% 2.4%
Public Transit < 0.1% 21.7% 3.2%

The average commute time in Lockport is 23.5 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

0.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 4.1% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Lockport, New York.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 196 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,070 at a typical national wage. That's 18% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Lockport, New York?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Lockport, 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.

Do people use public transit in Lockport, New York?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.0% of commuters use it versus 21.7% in New York, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.