Ossining Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Ossining: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ossining spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 254 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Ossining 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 Ossining would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,152 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)
Ossining	30.5 min	61.0 min	254 hrs/yr	$7,880	1,819
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.

Ossining Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.5 minutes to get to work in Ossining. That's 36% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ossining

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

Walking is unusually rare in Ossining: 3.7 times less than the New York average (1.5% vs 5.6%).

Biking is essentially absent in Ossining, versus 0.8% in New York.

Few people walk or bike to work in Ossining: just 1.5%, 4.3 times below the New York average of 6.4%.

Commute Mode Trends in Ossining, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ossining 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	Taxi	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	79.1%	3.3%	12.8%	1.3%	3.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	75.8%	3.4%	14.3%	1.7%	4.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2011	76.9%	3.4%	11.9%	1.6%	5.1%	1.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	73.6%	4.0%	13.5%	1.7%	6.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	71.6%	4.5%	14.7%	1.6%	6.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	72.0%	3.8%	13.7%	1.7%	7.5%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	70.7%	3.6%	13.3%	1.4%	10.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	72.2%	3.6%	13.3%	1.9%	8.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	72.7%	4.3%	13.0%	1.4%	7.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.0%
2018	73.1%	4.6%	12.3%	1.5%	7.7%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	73.4%	4.6%	11.9%	2.1%	7.5%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2020	69.9%	8.9%	15.1%	1.8%	4.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	69.1%	10.7%	14.1%	2.3%	3.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	69.8%	13.0%	12.6%	1.9%	2.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	67.6%	13.5%	13.6%	2.5%	2.0%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	65.9%	14.8%	14.3%	2.0%	1.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 79.1% in 2009 to 65.9% in 2024, down 13.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ossining: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 14.8% in 2024, up 11.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.2 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.2% to 1.5% of workers (down 1.7 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2024 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Ossining

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ossining?

The bars show when commuters in Ossining 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		1.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		1.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		7.3%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.5%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.0%
8:30-8:59 AM		10.6%
9:00-9:59 AM		9.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.5%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.1%

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

The busiest time to head out in Ossining is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across New York. Early starts are less common than in New York: 8.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 45.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.6%) 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 Ossining, 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 Ossining 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 Ossining 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	Ossining	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	7:48 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:49 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:53 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:53 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:47 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:42 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:35 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:36 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:30 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:50 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:59 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:05 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:09 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:04 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ossining were on the road by 8:04 AM, 19 minutes later than in 2009 (7:45 AM). The shift is sharper than across New York, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Ossining now leave 26 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 Ossining has moved 34 minutes later.

How does Ossining's commute time compare?

Metric	Ossining	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.5 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	14.8%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	1.5%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	14.3%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ossining is 30.5 minutes, longer than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

14.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 1.5% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ossining, New York.

Is commuting expensive in Ossining, New York?

Commuters here spend an estimated 254 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,880 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical New York commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Ossining, New York?

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