Middletown Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Middletown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Middletown spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 17% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Middletown 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 Middletown would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,447 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)
Middletown	23.7 min	47.4 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,118	2,620
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.

Middletown Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Middletown. That's 6% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 5.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Middletown

• Car: 83.6% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 5.8%
• Public Transportation: 5.3% unusually low
• Taxi: 2.5% unusually high
• Walked: 1.7% unusually low
• Other: 1.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Driving is 52% more common in Middletown than the New York average (83.6% vs 55.0%).

Walking is unusually rare in Middletown: 3.3 times less than the New York average (1.7% vs 5.6%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Middletown: 4.1 times less than the New York average (5.3% vs 21.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Middletown: 3.4 times more than the New York average (2.5% vs 0.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Middletown: 21.5 times less than the New York average (0.0% vs 0.8%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Middletown: just 1.8%, 3.6 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Middletown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Middletown 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.

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

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	82.1%	1.9%	6.0%	2.0%	6.9%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2010	81.1%	2.3%	5.5%	3.7%	7.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	79.8%	3.5%	4.9%	4.7%	7.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	79.6%	2.5%	4.3%	5.5%	7.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.4%
2013	81.6%	3.3%	3.8%	5.2%	5.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.4%
2014	81.6%	3.7%	4.4%	5.0%	4.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2015	85.0%	3.1%	4.6%	2.9%	3.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2016	85.6%	3.4%	4.2%	2.1%	3.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	86.6%	3.8%	4.3%	2.0%	2.5%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	86.1%	3.3%	4.5%	1.9%	2.7%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.1%	3.6%	2.9%	1.9%	3.2%	1.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	84.9%	5.0%	2.8%	2.8%	2.8%	1.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	86.5%	3.7%	4.8%	2.2%	2.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	86.7%	5.0%	4.3%	1.1%	2.4%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	83.2%	5.7%	4.5%	2.7%	2.8%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	83.6%	5.8%	5.3%	2.5%	1.7%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 87.1% and lowest in 2012 at 79.6%. Overall it rose from 82.1% in 2009 to 83.6% in 2024, up 1.5 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Middletown: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 5.8% in 2024, up 3.9 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.9% to 1.7% of workers (down 5.2 percentage points).

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

Taking a taxi peaked at 5.5% in 2012 and has since fallen back to 2.5%.

Commute Start Times in Middletown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Middletown?

The bars show when commuters in Middletown 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 Middletown6.9% New York3.9%	6.9%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Middletown9.8% New York2.9%	9.8%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Middletown3.6% New York3.7%	3.6%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Middletown12.6% New York7.5%	12.6%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Middletown7.1% New York8.1%	7.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Middletown10.7% New York13.9%	10.7%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Middletown13.3% New York11.1%	13.3%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Middletown6.6% New York14.0%	6.6%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Middletown3.7% New York7.7%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Middletown5.0% New York9.5%	5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Middletown3.6% New York3.7%	3.6%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Middletown3.4% New York1.7%	3.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Middletown8.5% New York6.9%	8.5%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Middletown5.1% New York5.3%	5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Middletown is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 20.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 37.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.7%) 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 Middletown, 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 Middletown 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 Middletown 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.

• Middletown
• New York
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Middletown	New York	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:44 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 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	7:55 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:49 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:54 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:54 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:55 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:51 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:51 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:46 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:28 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Middletown were on the road by 7:28 AM, 13 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:41 AM). That goes against the trend across New York, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Middletown now leave 10 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Middletown has moved 23 minutes earlier.

How does Middletown's commute time compare?

Metric	Middletown	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	5.8%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.7%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	5.3%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Middletown is 23.7 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

5.3% 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