Oceanside Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Oceanside, 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 Oceanside: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oceanside spend about 64 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 267 hours, about 11.1 full days, spent commuting. That is 12% more time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 3.3 minutes.

Oceanside holds about 0.2% of New York's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oceanside would save about 107 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,312 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)
Oceanside	32.0 min	64.1 min	267 hrs/yr	$8,279	3,807
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.

Oceanside Commute Map

On average, it takes 32.0 minutes to get to work in Oceanside. That's 43% 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 working from home. About 15.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oceanside

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

Driving is 24% more common in Oceanside than the New York average (68.1% vs 55.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Oceanside: 397.1 times less than the New York average (0.0% vs 0.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Oceanside, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oceanside 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	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	79.2%	4.0%	13.7%	2.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2010	77.7%	3.6%	15.7%	2.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	77.8%	4.2%	15.2%	2.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	78.9%	4.1%	14.5%	1.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	80.2%	4.4%	13.0%	1.8%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	79.5%	4.7%	13.8%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	79.9%	5.1%	13.1%	1.3%	0.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	78.1%	5.3%	14.4%	1.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	76.9%	5.1%	15.9%	1.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	76.2%	4.1%	17.3%	1.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2019	75.7%	4.9%	16.9%	1.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	73.1%	8.3%	16.7%	1.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	71.7%	11.3%	14.6%	2.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	71.6%	13.1%	12.3%	2.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	70.7%	14.8%	11.5%	1.8%	0.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	68.1%	15.9%	12.9%	2.2%	0.4%	0.4%	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 2013 at 80.2%. Overall it fell from 79.2% in 2009 to 68.1% in 2024, down 11.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 9 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oceanside: its share of workers rose from 4.0% in 2009 to 15.9% in 2024, up 11.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 11.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 13.7% to 12.9% of workers (down 0.8 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 Oceanside

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oceanside?

The bars show when commuters in Oceanside 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		1.7%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.8%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		10.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		13.4%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.5%
9:00-9:59 AM		7.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		8.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oceanside is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 12.5% 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 (24.2%) 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 Oceanside, 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 Oceanside 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 Oceanside 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	Oceanside	New York	United States
2009	7:48 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:46 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:48 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:42 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:45 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:43 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:46 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:51 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:47 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:46 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oceanside were on the road by 7:46 AM, 3 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 Oceanside now leave 8 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Oceanside's commute time compare?

Metric	Oceanside	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	32.0 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	15.9%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.2%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	12.9%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oceanside is 32.0 minutes, longer than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

12.9% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Oceanside, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Oceanside, NY	31,670	32.0 min #1/2	15.9% #2/2	7:46 AM #1/2
Rockville Centre, NY	25,745	36.4 min	25.5%	7:52 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Oceanside, New York.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 267 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $8,279 at a typical national wage. That's 12% more than the typical New York commuter spends.

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

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