Monsey Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Monsey, 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 Monsey: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Monsey spend about 32 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 134 hours, about 5.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 44% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 12.7 minutes.

Monsey holds about 0.2% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Monsey would save about 53 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,657 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)
Monsey	16.0 min	32.1 min	134 hrs/yr	$4,143	3,732
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.

Monsey Commute Map

On average, it takes 16.0 minutes to get to work in Monsey. That's 28% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 08:30 AM – 08:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 10.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Monsey

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Monsey: 4.8 times more than the New York average (3.6% vs 0.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Monsey: 4.1 times less than the New York average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Monsey, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Monsey 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	Walked	Worked at Home	Public Transportation	Taxi	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	68.9%	14.5%	5.2%	9.8%	1.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	65.9%	18.0%	6.0%	9.1%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	62.6%	20.0%	5.4%	9.7%	2.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	59.7%	20.4%	6.1%	10.5%	2.3%	0.5%	0.5%	0.0%
2013	58.2%	19.8%	6.1%	11.6%	3.3%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2014	55.9%	20.3%	6.7%	13.6%	2.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	59.4%	18.8%	5.8%	12.3%	2.9%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	60.6%	18.2%	6.8%	11.1%	2.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%
2017	62.0%	18.0%	6.9%	9.9%	2.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	64.7%	15.8%	6.7%	9.2%	2.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	63.3%	15.8%	9.1%	7.3%	4.1%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	61.8%	14.2%	10.3%	7.0%	6.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	62.9%	12.0%	9.5%	8.1%	7.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	61.8%	12.6%	11.5%	7.5%	6.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	59.7%	14.5%	12.8%	7.7%	4.8%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	65.2%	11.6%	10.9%	7.9%	3.6%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2014 at 55.9%. Overall it fell from 68.9% in 2009 to 65.2% in 2024, down 3.7 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Monsey: its share of workers rose from 5.2% in 2009 to 10.9% in 2024, up 5.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 14.5% to 11.6% of workers (down 2.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 13.6% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 7.9%.

Commute Start Times in Monsey

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Monsey?

The bars show when commuters in Monsey 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		0.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		0.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		0.2%
6:00-6:29 AM		1.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.1%
7:00-7:29 AM		2.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		3.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		16.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		34.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		12.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		5.2%
12:00-3:59 PM		7.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		2.3%

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

The busiest time to head out in Monsey is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 34.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.5% across New York. Early starts are less common than in New York: 0.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 20.2% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 2 commuters (62.2%) 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 Monsey, 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 Monsey 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 Monsey 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	Monsey	New York	United States
2009	8:53 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	9:01 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	9:09 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	9:15 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	9:18 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	9:11 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	9:05 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:58 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:54 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:49 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:57 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	9:07 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	9:13 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	9:11 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	9:16 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	9:22 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Monsey were on the road by 9:22 AM, 29 minutes later than in 2009 (8:53 AM). The shift is sharper than across New York, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Monsey now leave 104 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 Monsey has moved 24 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Monsey in the whole series.

How does Monsey's commute time compare?

Metric	Monsey	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.0 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	09:00 AM – 09:59 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	10.9%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	11.6%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	7.9%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Monsey is 16.0 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

7.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 11.6% commute by walking, higher than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Monsey, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Monsey, NY	29,660	16.0 min #1/2	10.9% #1/2	9:21 AM #2/2
Spring Valley, NY	32,678	21.6 min	6.2%	8:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Monsey, New York.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 134 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,143 at a typical national wage. That's 44% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM in Monsey, 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.