Mount Vernon Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Mount Vernon, 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 Mount Vernon: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mount Vernon spend about 62 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 260 hours, about 10.8 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 2.5 minutes.

Mount Vernon holds about 0.4% of New York's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mount Vernon would save about 104 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,226 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)
Mount Vernon	31.2 min	62.4 min	260 hrs/yr	$8,064	2,484
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.

Mount Vernon Commute Map

On average, it takes 31.2 minutes to get to work in Mount Vernon. That's 39% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 8.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mount Vernon

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

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Mount Vernon: 3.2 times more than the New York average (2.4% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mount Vernon, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mount Vernon 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	Public Transportation	Worked at Home	Walked	Taxi	Other	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	64.2%	22.0%	2.0%	8.3%	1.5%	1.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	65.0%	21.2%	2.6%	8.0%	1.6%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	68.4%	18.9%	3.2%	6.2%	1.9%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	67.6%	20.7%	3.3%	6.3%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	67.2%	22.0%	3.5%	5.8%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2014	64.5%	24.4%	3.3%	6.1%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	62.2%	26.6%	3.3%	6.5%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	60.6%	29.0%	2.6%	6.3%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	60.3%	30.0%	2.7%	5.5%	0.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	59.5%	30.5%	2.3%	5.7%	1.3%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	58.5%	32.6%	2.8%	4.0%	1.4%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	58.2%	31.7%	3.6%	3.8%	1.6%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2021	56.2%	31.6%	5.5%	3.9%	1.2%	1.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	55.0%	29.4%	6.9%	4.8%	1.9%	1.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	55.8%	27.8%	8.1%	4.5%	1.7%	1.9%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	56.0%	25.8%	8.7%	4.5%	2.4%	2.1%	0.4%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 68.4% and lowest in 2022 at 55.0%. Overall it fell from 64.2% in 2009 to 56.0% in 2024, down 8.2 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mount Vernon: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 8.7% in 2024, up 6.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 5.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 8.3% to 4.5% of workers (down 3.8 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 3rd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 32.6% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 25.8%.

Commute Start Times in Mount Vernon

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mount Vernon?

The bars show when commuters in Mount Vernon 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		2.3%
5:00-5:29 AM		2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.9%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		17.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.4%
8:00-8:29 AM		15.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.9%
9:00-9:59 AM		10.1%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mount Vernon is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 17.6% 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: 49.9% 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 Mount Vernon, 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 Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon 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	Mount Vernon	New York	United States
2009	7:41 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:38 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:38 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:38 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:40 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:38 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:39 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 Mount Vernon were on the road by 7:54 AM, 13 minutes later than in 2009 (7:41 AM). The shift is sharper than across New York, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Mount Vernon 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 Mount Vernon has moved 12 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Mount Vernon in the whole series.

How does Mount Vernon's commute time compare?

Metric	Mount Vernon	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	31.2 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	8.7%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	4.5%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	25.8%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mount Vernon is 31.2 minutes, longer than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

25.8% commute by public transit, higher than the 21.7% in New York. 4.5% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Mount Vernon, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Mount Vernon, NY	72,261	31.2 min #2/2	8.7% #2/2	7:54 AM #1/2
Eastchester, NY	20,417	28.3 min	20.9%	7:55 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Mount Vernon, New York.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Mount Vernon, New York?

Commuters here spend an estimated 260 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,064 at a typical national wage. That's 9% more than the typical New York commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Mount Vernon, New York?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Mount Vernon, New York. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.