Yates County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Yates County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Yates County spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 144 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 40% less time on the road than the New York average of 28.7 minutes each way, a difference of 11.4 minutes.

Yates County 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 Yates County would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,784 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)
Yates County	17.3 min	34.5 min	144 hrs/yr	$4,460	543
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 17.3 minutes to get to work in Yates County. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 82% of counties in New York

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Yates County

• Car: 76.8% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 13.4%
• Walked: 5.2%
• Bicycle: 2.2%
• Other: 1.7%
• Taxi: 0.4%
• Public Transportation: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%

Driving is 40% more common in Yates County than the New York average (76.8% vs 55.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Yates County: 157.3 times less than the New York average (0.1% vs 21.7%).

Commute Mode Trends in Yates County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Yates 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
• Bicycle
• Other
• Taxi
• Public Transportation
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Public Transportation	Motorcycle
2009	82.0%	8.7%	6.7%	1.3%	0.9%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2010	81.6%	8.9%	7.1%	1.1%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.3%
2011	83.3%	6.7%	7.6%	1.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.6%	0.4%
2012	81.5%	7.3%	8.0%	1.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.6%	0.3%
2013	80.8%	7.2%	8.6%	2.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
2014	80.3%	7.7%	8.3%	2.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2015	80.4%	7.8%	8.2%	2.5%	0.7%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%
2016	78.2%	9.2%	8.3%	2.7%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	77.5%	10.0%	8.1%	2.4%	1.3%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2018	77.2%	10.9%	7.6%	2.5%	1.0%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2019	79.2%	11.6%	6.0%	1.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%	0.0%
2020	77.7%	12.5%	5.5%	2.5%	1.1%	0.3%	0.3%	0.0%
2021	78.0%	12.7%	5.4%	2.5%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	80.5%	12.2%	3.5%	2.4%	1.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	78.5%	13.5%	4.0%	2.2%	1.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	76.8%	13.4%	5.2%	2.2%	1.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 83.3%. Overall it fell from 82.0% in 2009 to 76.8% in 2024, down 5.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Yates County: its share of workers rose from 8.7% in 2009 to 13.4% in 2024, up 4.7 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.7% to 5.2% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Yates County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Yates County?

The bars show when commuters in Yates 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 Yates County4.5% New York3.9%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Yates County4.3% New York2.9%	4.3%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Yates County6.4% New York3.7%	6.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Yates County8.5% New York7.5%	8.5%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Yates County9.7% New York8.1%	9.7%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Yates County18.4% New York13.9%	18.4%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Yates County13.5% New York11.1%	13.5%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Yates County9.0% New York14.0%	9.0%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Yates County3.8% New York7.7%	3.8%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Yates County6.2% New York9.5%	6.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Yates County2.9% New York3.7%	2.9%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Yates County0.8% New York1.7%	0.8%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Yates County7.4% New York6.9%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Yates County4.6% New York5.3%	4.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Yates County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 18.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.9% across New York. Early starts are more common than in New York: 15.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 10.6% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in New York: 50.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 47.1% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.9%) 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 Yates 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 Yates 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 Yates 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.

• Yates County
• New York
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Yates County	New York	United States
2009	7:28 AM	7:54 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:30 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:31 AM	7:54 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:36 AM	7:55 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:39 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:36 AM	7:56 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:33 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:30 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:27 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:25 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:25 AM	7:55 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:25 AM	7:56 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:24 AM	7:56 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:27 AM	7:57 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Yates County were on the road by 7:27 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 Yates County now leave 11 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 Yates County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Yates County's commute time compare?

Metric	Yates County	New York	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.3 min	28.7 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.4%	15.0%	15.0%
Walked	5.2%	5.6%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.1%	21.7%	3.2%

The average commute time in Yates County is 17.3 minutes, shorter than the 28.7 minutes in New York.

0.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 21.7% in New York. 5.2% commute by walking, lower than the 5.6% in New York.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau