Oneida County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Oneida County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Oneida County spend about 34 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 142 hours, about 5.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 41% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 11.6 minutes.

Oneida County holds about 1.2% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.7% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Oneida County would save about 57 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,764 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)
Oneida County	17.1 min	34.1 min	142 hrs/yr	$4,409	1,952
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.

Commute Time Map: New York Counties

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On average, it takes 17.1 minutes to get to work in Oneida County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 85% of counties in New York

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 10.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Oneida County

• Car: 83.5% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 10.8%
• Walked: 3.2%
• Public Transportation: 1.2% unusually low
• Other: 0.7%
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.3% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Oneida County: 5.8 times less than the New York average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Driving is 52% more common in Oneida County than the New York average (83.5% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Oneida County: 18.6 times less than the New York average (1.2% vs 21.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in Oneida County: 3.0 times less than the New York average (0.3% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in Oneida County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Oneida County 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
• Walked
• Public Transportation
• Other
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	90.7%	3.5%	3.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2010	90.9%	3.3%	3.3%	1.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.3%	0.2%
2011	91.5%	3.0%	3.2%	1.2%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2012	91.0%	3.2%	3.5%	1.2%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2013	91.2%	3.1%	3.6%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2014	90.8%	3.3%	3.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	90.4%	3.7%	3.8%	1.1%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2016	90.1%	4.0%	3.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	90.1%	4.4%	3.7%	1.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	90.2%	4.5%	3.5%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	90.1%	4.5%	3.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2020	88.6%	5.8%	3.5%	1.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	87.6%	7.3%	3.1%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2022	86.1%	8.4%	3.1%	1.5%	0.5%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	84.4%	10.1%	3.4%	1.1%	0.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2024	83.5%	10.8%	3.2%	1.2%	0.7%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 91.5%. Overall it fell from 90.7% in 2009 to 83.5% in 2024, down 7.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Oneida County: its share of workers rose from 3.5% in 2009 to 10.8% in 2024, up 7.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Oneida County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Oneida County?

The bars show when commuters in Oneida County 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 Oneida County4.4% New York3.9%	4.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Oneida County2.4% New York2.9%	2.4%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Oneida County5.1% New York3.7%	5.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Oneida County7.0% New York7.5%	7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Oneida County10.5% New York8.1%	10.5%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Oneida County13.0% New York13.9%	13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Oneida County15.0% New York11.1%	15.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Oneida County10.5% New York14.0%	10.5%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Oneida County6.4% New York7.7%	6.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Oneida County6.0% New York9.5%	6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Oneida County2.2% New York3.7%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Oneida County1.7% New York1.7%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Oneida County8.3% New York6.9%	8.3%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Oneida County7.5% New York5.3%	7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Oneida County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 15.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 11.8% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New York: 49.1% 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 Oneida County, 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 Oneida County 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 Oneida County 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.

• Oneida County
• New York
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Oneida County	New York	United States
2009	7:45 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:45 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:46 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:47 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:47 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:48 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:46 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:44 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:41 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:42 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:42 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:45 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Oneida County were on the road by 7:45 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 Oneida County now leave 7 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 Oneida County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Oneida County's commute time compare?

Metric	Oneida County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.1 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	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.8%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	3.2%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Oneida County is 17.1 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

1.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 3.2% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau