Spring Valley Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Spring Valley, 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 Spring Valley: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Spring Valley spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 180 hours, about 7.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 25% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 7.1 minutes.

Spring Valley 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 Spring Valley would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,234 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)
Spring Valley	21.6 min	43.2 min	180 hrs/yr	$5,586	4,350
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.

Spring Valley Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.6 minutes to get to work in Spring Valley. That's 4% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 09:00 AM – 09:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by public transit. About 6.2% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Spring Valley

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

Driving is 29% more common in Spring Valley than the New York average (71.0% vs 55.0%).

Taking a taxi is unusually common in Spring Valley: 9.6 times more than the New York average (7.2% vs 0.7%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Spring Valley, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Spring Valley 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	Taxi	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	68.6%	17.9%	6.1%	1.1%	4.7%	0.8%	0.2%	0.7%
2010	71.2%	18.3%	3.8%	1.3%	3.6%	0.8%	0.3%	0.6%
2011	69.1%	20.1%	4.2%	1.5%	4.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%
2012	67.5%	20.7%	3.9%	2.0%	4.6%	0.9%	0.3%	0.1%
2013	70.1%	18.9%	3.3%	1.7%	5.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2014	73.1%	17.0%	3.2%	1.8%	4.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	72.6%	16.8%	3.2%	2.1%	4.9%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	73.5%	15.2%	3.3%	2.2%	5.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2017	73.7%	13.5%	4.8%	2.4%	4.9%	0.3%	0.0%	0.3%
2018	73.7%	12.7%	5.5%	3.1%	4.4%	0.4%	0.0%	0.3%
2019	73.9%	11.3%	5.7%	3.5%	4.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2020	71.7%	11.7%	6.3%	3.7%	4.9%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	70.3%	12.8%	7.0%	4.7%	3.7%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	73.7%	8.9%	5.1%	6.6%	3.8%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	71.4%	11.4%	5.8%	6.7%	2.7%	2.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	71.0%	11.6%	7.2%	6.2%	2.4%	1.6%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2019 at 73.9% and lowest in 2012 at 67.5%. Overall it rose from 68.6% in 2009 to 71.0% in 2024, up 2.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Spring Valley: its share of workers rose from 1.1% in 2009 to 6.2% in 2024, up 5.1 percentage points.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 17.9% to 11.6% of workers (down 6.3 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Spring Valley

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Spring Valley?

The bars show when commuters in Spring Valley 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		2.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		1.6%
5:30-5:59 AM		3.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.3%
6:30-6:59 AM		4.6%
7:00-7:29 AM		10.5%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		9.4%
9:00-9:59 AM		14.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		5.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		5.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Spring Valley is 9:00-9:59 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 9.5% across New York. Early starts are less common than in New York: 7.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in New York: 39.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (35.7%) 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 Spring Valley, 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 Spring Valley 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 Spring Valley 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	Spring Valley	New York	United States
2009	8:02 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	8:07 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	8:07 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	8:09 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	8:12 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	8:13 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	8:08 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	8:09 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	8:10 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	8:11 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	8:15 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	8:18 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	8:30 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	8:20 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	8:14 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	8:18 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Spring Valley were on the road by 8:18 AM, 16 minutes later than in 2009 (8:02 AM). The shift is sharper than across New York, where the typical start moved 3 minutes later. Commuters in Spring Valley now leave 40 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 Spring Valley has moved 3 minutes later.

How does Spring Valley's commute time compare?

Metric	Spring Valley	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.6 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.2%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	2.4%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	11.6%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Spring Valley is 21.6 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

11.6% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 2.4% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Spring Valley, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Spring Valley, New York.

Is commuting expensive in Spring Valley, New York?

Commuters here spend an estimated 180 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,586 at a typical national wage. That's 25% less than the typical New York commuter spends.

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

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