Commuting in Sullivan County, 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 Sullivan County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Sullivan County spend about 43 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 181 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 7.0 minutes.
Sullivan County holds about 0.4% 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 Sullivan County would save about 72 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,238 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)
Sullivan County
21.7 min
43.3 min
181 hrs/yr
$5,596
472
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.
On average, it takes
21.7
minutes to get to work in
Sullivan County.
That's 3% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.2% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Sullivan County
Car:
80.5%unusually high
Worked at Home:
13.2%
Walked:
2.9%
Public Transportation:
1.3%unusually low
Other:
0.7%
Taxi:
0.7%
Bicycle:
0.5%
Motorcycle:
0.2%
Driving is 46% more common in Sullivan County than the New York average (80.5% vs 55.0%).
Public transit is unusually rare in Sullivan County: 16.1 times less than the New York average (1.3% vs 21.7%).
Commute Mode Trends in Sullivan County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Sullivan 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.
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
Walked
Public Transportation
Taxi
Other
Bicycle
Motorcycle
2009
87.3%
5.3%
4.8%
1.5%
0.3%
0.3%
0.3%
0.2%
2010
87.0%
5.9%
4.3%
1.7%
0.2%
0.3%
0.3%
0.2%
2011
87.4%
5.9%
3.8%
1.9%
0.4%
0.3%
0.1%
0.2%
2012
87.2%
5.6%
4.1%
2.0%
0.2%
0.6%
0.1%
0.1%
2013
86.9%
5.7%
4.5%
1.9%
0.1%
0.7%
0.1%
0.1%
2014
87.1%
6.0%
3.7%
1.9%
0.3%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
2015
87.4%
5.1%
4.0%
2.0%
0.4%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
2016
88.4%
4.8%
3.4%
2.1%
0.4%
0.8%
0.1%
0.1%
2017
89.0%
4.7%
2.8%
2.2%
0.6%
0.5%
0.1%
0.1%
2018
89.4%
5.0%
2.1%
2.2%
0.9%
0.4%
0.1%
0.0%
2019
89.2%
4.5%
2.5%
2.4%
0.8%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2020
87.7%
6.5%
2.2%
2.0%
0.5%
0.4%
0.5%
0.3%
2021
86.9%
7.7%
2.0%
1.7%
0.6%
0.4%
0.5%
0.2%
2022
84.8%
9.8%
2.7%
1.1%
0.5%
0.4%
0.5%
0.2%
2023
82.4%
11.8%
2.8%
1.2%
0.3%
0.7%
0.6%
0.3%
2024
80.5%
13.2%
2.9%
1.3%
0.7%
0.7%
0.5%
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 89.4%. Overall it fell from 87.3% in 2009 to 80.5% in 2024, down 6.8 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Sullivan County: its share of workers rose from 5.3% in 2009 to 13.2% in 2024, up 7.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.8% to 2.9% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Sullivan County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Sullivan County?
The bars show when commuters in Sullivan 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 AMSullivan County3.9%New York3.9%
3.9%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMSullivan County2.9%New York2.9%
2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMSullivan County5.8%New York3.7%
5.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMSullivan County8.5%New York7.5%
8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMSullivan County9.3%New York8.1%
9.3%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMSullivan County11.2%New York13.9%
11.2%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMSullivan County14.5%New York11.1%
14.5%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMSullivan County11.7%New York14.0%
11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMSullivan County5.9%New York7.7%
5.9%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMSullivan County6.0%New York9.5%
6.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMSullivan County3.0%New York3.7%
3.0%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMSullivan County2.1%New York1.7%
2.1%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMSullivan County8.8%New York6.9%
8.8%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMSullivan County6.2%New York5.3%
6.2%
Sullivan CountyNew YorkSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Sullivan County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.1% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 12.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush looks much like New York's: 46.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (26.1%) 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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan 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 Sullivan 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.
Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.Show typical departure times by year
Year
Sullivan County
New York
United States
2009
7:42 AM
7:54 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:41 AM
7:54 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:40 AM
7:54 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:41 AM
7:55 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:44 AM
7:56 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:44 AM
7:56 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:45 AM
7:56 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:45 AM
7:56 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:45 AM
7:56 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:43 AM
7:55 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:41 AM
7:55 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:40 AM
7:55 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:40 AM
7:55 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:46 AM
7:56 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:46 AM
7:56 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:47 AM
7:57 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Sullivan County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 5 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). New York followed the same path, with the typical start moving 3 minutes later. Commuters in Sullivan County now leave 9 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 Sullivan County has moved 6 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Sullivan County in the whole series.
How does Sullivan County's commute time compare?
Metric
Sullivan County
New York
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
21.7 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
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
13.2%
15.0%
15.0%
Walked
2.9%
5.6%
2.4%
Public Transit
1.3%
21.7%
3.2%
The average commute time in Sullivan County is 21.7 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.
1.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 2.9% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.
Sullivan County, NY Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Sullivan County, NY is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 79,713 residents against a local median of 60,618. Nothing separates Sullivan County, NY sharply from the counties around it. Each measure below lands within 15% of the local median, close enough that the differences are within what survey sampling alone would produce.
The largest of those small differences is work from home, 3% above the local median at 13.2% against 12.8%. Sullivan County, NY has the 3rd highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Sullivan County, New York.
Is commuting expensive in Sullivan County, New York?
Commuters here spend an estimated 181 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,596 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 Sullivan County, New York?
Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Sullivan County, 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.
Do people use public transit in Sullivan County, New York?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.3% of commuters use it versus 21.7% in New York, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Where are the quickest and slowest commutes among counties in New York?
Among counties in New York, the shortest average commutes are in Hamilton County (13.6 min), Chautauqua County (15.4 min), Franklin County (16.4 min). The longest are in Bronx County (43.2 min), Queens County (41.8 min), Kings County (41.6 min).