St. Lawrence County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in St. Lawrence County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in St. Lawrence 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 141 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 11.8 minutes.

St. Lawrence County holds about 0.5% of New York's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in St. Lawrence County would save about 56 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,751 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)
St. Lawrence County	16.9 min	33.9 min	141 hrs/yr	$4,376	440
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.

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On average, it takes 16.9 minutes to get to work in St. Lawrence County. That's 24% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 89% 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 walking. About 6.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in St. Lawrence County

• Car: 84.3% unusually high
• Walked: 6.9%
• Worked at Home: 6.9%
• Other: 0.9%
• Public Transportation: 0.3% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.2%
• Bicycle: 0.2% unusually low

Driving is 53% more common in St. Lawrence County than the New York average (84.3% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in St. Lawrence County: 75.3 times less than the New York average (0.3% vs 21.7%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in St. Lawrence County: 3.4 times less than the New York average (0.2% vs 0.7%).

Biking is unusually rare in St. Lawrence County: 5.0 times less than the New York average (0.2% vs 0.8%).

Commute Mode Trends in St. Lawrence County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in St. Lawrence 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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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Walked	Worked at Home	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.4%	7.5%	5.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%
2010	85.2%	7.9%	5.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%
2011	84.4%	8.7%	4.9%	0.7%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.5%
2012	84.4%	8.6%	4.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.3%	0.6%
2013	84.9%	7.9%	4.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.2%	0.7%
2014	85.0%	7.4%	4.9%	1.1%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.7%
2015	86.1%	7.0%	4.6%	0.9%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%	0.8%
2016	86.7%	6.6%	4.5%	0.9%	0.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.5%
2017	86.6%	6.4%	5.1%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.4%
2018	87.2%	6.5%	4.8%	0.4%	0.5%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	86.9%	6.6%	5.1%	0.6%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	86.4%	6.1%	5.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.9%	6.2%	6.2%	0.9%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	86.4%	5.7%	6.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%
2023	84.4%	6.9%	6.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2024	84.3%	6.9%	6.9%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2018 at 87.2%. Overall it fell from 85.4% in 2009 to 84.3% in 2024, down 1.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in St. Lawrence County: its share of workers rose from 5.8% in 2009 to 6.9% in 2024, up 1.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.8 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.5% to 6.9% of workers (down 0.6 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in St. Lawrence County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in St. Lawrence County?

The bars show when commuters in St. Lawrence 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 St. Lawrence County5.1% New York3.9%	5.1%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM St. Lawrence County4.2% New York2.9%	4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM St. Lawrence County7.2% New York3.7%	7.2%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM St. Lawrence County8.7% New York7.5%	8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM St. Lawrence County10.9% New York8.1%	10.9%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM St. Lawrence County13.5% New York13.9%	13.5%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM St. Lawrence County14.2% New York11.1%	14.2%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM St. Lawrence County7.7% New York14.0%	7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM St. Lawrence County3.7% New York7.7%	3.7%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM St. Lawrence County5.6% New York9.5%	5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM St. Lawrence County1.8% New York3.7%	1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM St. Lawrence County1.5% New York1.7%	1.5%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM St. Lawrence County8.4% New York6.9%	8.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM St. Lawrence County7.6% New York5.3%	7.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in St. Lawrence County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.2% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 16.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 46.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.9%) 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 St. Lawrence 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 St. Lawrence 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 St. Lawrence 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	St. Lawrence County	New York	United States
2009	7:38 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:38 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:42 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:40 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:43 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:41 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:39 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:35 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:35 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:34 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:33 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:33 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:31 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in St. Lawrence County were on the road by 7:31 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:38 AM). That goes against the trend across New York, where the typical commuter now leaves 3 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in St. Lawrence County now leave 7 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in St. Lawrence County has moved 4 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for St. Lawrence County in the whole series.

How does St. Lawrence County's commute time compare?

Metric	St. Lawrence County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.9 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	6.9%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	6.9%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.3%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in St. Lawrence County is 16.9 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 6.9% commute by walking, higher than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau