Massapequa Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Massapequa, 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 Massapequa: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Massapequa spend about 63 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 262 hours, about 10.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 9% more time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 2.7 minutes.

Massapequa 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 Massapequa would save about 105 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,245 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)
Massapequa	31.4 min	62.8 min	262 hrs/yr	$8,112	3,382
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.

Massapequa Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.4 minutes to get to work in Massapequa. That's 40% 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 15.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Massapequa

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

Driving is 32% more common in Massapequa than the New York average (72.4% vs 55.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Massapequa: 12.4 times less than the New York average (0.5% vs 5.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Massapequa: 7.0 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Massapequa: just 0.6%, 11.3 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Massapequa, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Massapequa 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	Other	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	81.8%	3.1%	14.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2010	80.7%	3.1%	15.3%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	79.8%	3.8%	15.3%	0.0%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	80.9%	4.1%	14.2%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	79.0%	3.6%	16.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	78.5%	3.2%	16.9%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	80.5%	3.1%	14.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	79.0%	3.8%	15.6%	0.5%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%
2017	80.5%	3.2%	15.2%	0.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	79.9%	3.3%	15.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	79.6%	3.7%	15.7%	0.3%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	75.3%	6.6%	16.0%	1.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	75.0%	9.9%	13.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	72.8%	12.5%	12.2%	1.5%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	72.1%	14.5%	10.2%	2.0%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	72.4%	15.7%	9.6%	1.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2023 at 72.1%. Overall it fell from 81.8% in 2009 to 72.4% in 2024, down 9.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Massapequa: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 15.7% in 2024, up 12.6 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 14.0% to 9.6% of workers (down 4.4 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Massapequa

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Massapequa?

The bars show when commuters in Massapequa 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		5.4%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.4%
6:30-6:59 AM		9.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		11.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		13.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		3.4%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Massapequa is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 15.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 47.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (18.2%) 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 Massapequa, 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 Massapequa 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 Massapequa 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	Massapequa	New York	United States
2009	7:53 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:53 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:52 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:49 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:50 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:51 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:44 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:41 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:40 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:37 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:53 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:54 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Massapequa were on the road by 7:54 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 Massapequa now leave 16 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 Massapequa has moved 12 minutes later.

How does Massapequa's commute time compare?

Metric	Massapequa	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.4 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	15.7%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	9.6%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Massapequa is 31.4 minutes, longer than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

9.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Massapequa, New York.

Is living in Massapequa, New York good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 262 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,112 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical New York commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Massapequa, New York?

Traffic peaks between 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM in Massapequa, 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.