Berks County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Berks County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Berks 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 177 hours, about 7.4 full days, spent commuting.

That is 5% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.2 minutes.

Berks County holds about 3.3% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 3.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Berks County would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,201 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)
Berks County	21.3 min	42.6 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,502	1,291
Pennsylvania	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,802	1,152
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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: Pennsylvania Counties

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On average, it takes 21.3 minutes to get to work in Berks County. That's 5% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 10.6% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 83.5%
• Worked at Home: 10.6%
• Walked: 2.8%
• Other: 1.5%
• Public Transportation: 1.0% unusually low
• Taxi: 0.3%
• Bicycle: 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Berks County: 3.9 times less than the Pennsylvania average (1.0% vs 3.9%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Berks County: 3.7 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

How does Berks County's commute time compare?

Metric	Berks County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.3 min	22.5 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	10.6%	13.8%	13.4%
Walked	2.8%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.0%	3.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Berks County is 21.3 minutes, shorter than the 22.5 minutes in Pennsylvania.

1.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.9% in Pennsylvania. 2.8% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau