Bethel Park Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania: 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 Bethel Park: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Bethel Park spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 14% more time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.2 minutes.

Bethel Park holds about 0.3% of Pennsylvania's population and accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Bethel Park would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,644 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)
Bethel Park	25.6 min	51.2 min	213 hrs/yr	$6,611	2,673
Pennsylvania	22.4 min	44.7 min	186 hrs/yr	$5,779	1,152
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.

Bethel Park Commute Map

On average, it takes 25.6 minutes to get to work in Bethel Park. That's 14% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 23.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Bethel Park

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Bethel Park, versus 0.1% in Pennsylvania.

Walking is unusually rare in Bethel Park: 3.5 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.9% vs 3.2%).

Biking is essentially absent in Bethel Park, versus 0.4% in Pennsylvania.

Few people walk or bike to work in Bethel Park: just 0.9%, 4.0 times below the Pennsylvania average of 3.7%.

Commute Mode Trends in Bethel Park, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Bethel Park 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	Public Transportation	Other	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	85.2%	3.8%	8.9%	0.5%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2010	84.2%	4.2%	9.2%	0.7%	1.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	83.0%	5.2%	9.5%	1.0%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2012	81.8%	5.2%	11.2%	0.7%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	81.4%	5.6%	11.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	80.0%	6.3%	11.9%	0.7%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2015	80.4%	6.2%	11.9%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.2%
2016	80.3%	6.5%	11.1%	0.6%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.1%
2017	80.8%	6.7%	10.3%	0.7%	1.3%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2018	80.9%	6.2%	10.9%	0.9%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%
2019	82.3%	5.5%	10.5%	0.8%	0.7%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	77.7%	11.6%	8.7%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2021	74.3%	16.8%	7.1%	0.7%	0.7%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	71.2%	20.6%	6.1%	1.3%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	69.1%	23.7%	4.9%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	69.0%	23.9%	4.4%	1.2%	0.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 85.2% in 2009 to 69.0% in 2024, down 16.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Bethel Park: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 23.9% in 2024, up 20.1 percentage points. Most of that increase, 18.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 8.9% to 4.4% of workers (down 4.5 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Bethel Park

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Bethel Park?

The bars show when commuters in Bethel Park 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 Pennsylvania for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		3.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		13.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.8%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.3%
12:00-3:59 PM		6.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

Bethel Park Pennsylvania Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Bethel Park is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are less common than in Pennsylvania: 10.5% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Pennsylvania: 53.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.3%) 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 Bethel Park, 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 Bethel Park 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 Bethel Park next to Pennsylvania 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	Bethel Park	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:29 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:31 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:29 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:36 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Bethel Park were on the road by 7:36 AM, 7 minutes later than in 2009 (7:29 AM). That goes against the trend across Pennsylvania, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Bethel Park now leave 2 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 Bethel Park has moved 7 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Bethel Park in the whole series.

How does Bethel Park's commute time compare?

Metric	Bethel Park	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	25.6 min	22.4 min	22.4 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	23.9%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	0.9%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.4%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Bethel Park is 25.6 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

4.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 0.9% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

Is living in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 213 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,611 at a typical national wage. That's 14% more than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How much time do residents in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania save by working from home?

About 23.9% of workers here already work from home. Working from home just 2 days a week in Bethel Park would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,644 at the same national wage assumption used above.