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Commute Time Burden in Cameron County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Cameron County spend about 23 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 95 hours, about 4.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 49% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 11.0 minutes.

Cameron County holds about 0.0% of Pennsylvania's population and accounts for roughly 0.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Cameron County would save about 38 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,176 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)
Cameron County 11.4 min 22.8 min 95 hrs/yr $2,939 373
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.

Commute Time Map: Pennsylvania Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Pennsylvania
  1. Cameron County (11.4 min)
  2. Elk County (15.4 min)
  3. McKean County (15.9 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Pennsylvania
  1. Pike County (32.5 min)
  2. Perry County (32.0 min)
  3. Carbon County (30.5 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Cameron County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 11.4 minutes to get to work in Cameron County. That's 49% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Fastest county in Pennsylvania

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by walking. About 1.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Cameron County

  • Car: 94.0% unusually high
  • Walked: 3.5%
  • Worked at Home: 1.8% unusually low
  • Public Transportation: 0.5% unusually low
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%
  • Other: 0.1%
  • Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
  • Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 24% more common in Cameron County than the Pennsylvania average (94.0% vs 75.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Cameron County: 7.1 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.5% vs 3.6%).

Taking a taxi is essentially absent in Cameron County, versus 0.2% in Pennsylvania.

Working from home is unusually rare in Cameron County: 8.5 times less than the Pennsylvania average (1.8% vs 15.6%).

Biking is essentially absent in Cameron County, versus 0.4% in Pennsylvania.

Commute Mode Trends in Cameron County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Cameron 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 Walked Worked at Home Public Transportation Motorcycle Other Taxi Bicycle
2009 84.2% 12.4% 2.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.6% 0.0% 0.4%
2010 84.0% 12.4% 2.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.7% 0.0% 0.3%
2011 84.2% 12.7% 2.4% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.1%
2012 86.1% 11.5% 2.3% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2013 87.3% 9.3% 3.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%
2014 87.0% 8.9% 3.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.0% 0.5%
2015 90.1% 6.5% 2.4% 0.0% 0.1% 0.5% 0.0% 0.5%
2016 90.7% 5.3% 2.7% 0.0% 0.2% 0.5% 0.0% 0.6%
2017 89.9% 6.0% 2.6% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.0% 0.5%
2018 90.0% 7.3% 1.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.6%
2019 89.6% 8.7% 1.1% 0.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2020 90.6% 7.2% 1.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2021 94.5% 4.1% 1.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2022 91.6% 6.4% 1.9% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2023 92.5% 4.4% 2.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
2024 94.0% 3.5% 1.8% 0.5% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2021 at 94.5% and lowest in 2010 at 84.0%. Overall it rose from 84.2% in 2009 to 94.0% in 2024, up 9.8 percentage points. It has risen in each of the last 2 releases.

Public transit gained the most ground in Cameron County: its share of workers rose from 0.0% in 2009 to 0.5% in 2024, up 0.5 percentage points.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 12.4% to 3.5% of workers (down 8.9 percentage points).

Public transit overtook biking to become the 4th most common choice in the 2023 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Cameron County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 2nd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Pennsylvania's 67 counties: the typical start is 19 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cameron County?

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

12:00-4:59 AM
4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM
4.0%
5:30-5:59 AM
9.1%
6:00-6:29 AM
11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM
16.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
8.4%
7:30-7:59 AM
18.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
6.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
3.4%
9:00-9:59 AM
1.3%
10:00-10:59 AM
1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM
0.7%
12:00-3:59 PM
6.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
7.8%

Cameron County Pennsylvania Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Cameron County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 18.7% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.4% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 17.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Pennsylvania: 50.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 6 commuters (17.8%) 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 Cameron 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 Cameron 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 Cameron County 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 Cameron County Pennsylvania United States
2009 7:36 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:33 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:35 AM 7:39 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:35 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:31 AM 7:39 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:25 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:29 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:26 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:27 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:13 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:21 AM 7:36 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:19 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:17 AM 7:37 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:04 AM 7:38 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:17 AM 7:37 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Cameron County were on the road by 7:17 AM, 19 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:36 AM). The shift is sharper than across Pennsylvania, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Cameron County now leave 20 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 Cameron County has moved 4 minutes later.

How does Cameron County's commute time compare?

Metric Cameron County Pennsylvania US Average
Avg. Commute Time 11.4 min 22.4 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 1.8% 15.6% 15.0%
Walked 3.5% 3.2% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.5% 3.6% 3.2%

The average commute time in Cameron County is 11.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 3.5% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Cameron County, PA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Cameron County, PA is the smallest of the 6 counties compared here, 4,427 residents against a local median of 37,796. Cameron County, PA's work from home, at 1.8%, runs 77% below the 8.1% typical of the counties around it.

One-way commute tells the same story from another angle: 11.4 min against a local median of 17.6 min, 36% below it. The one measure here that carries a verdict is one-way commute, and at 36% below the local median it puts Cameron County, PA at the better end of the local range. The counties themselves spread 7.6% on work from home, so Cameron County, PA sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cameron County, PA has the 6th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Cameron County, PA 4,427 11.4 min #1/6 1.8% #6/6 7:17 AM #2/6
Potter County, PA 16,191 17.8 min 10.7% 7:25 AM
Elk County, PA 30,506 15.4 min 3.1% 7:15 AM
Clearfield County, PA 78,582 20.1 min 8.1% 7:23 AM
McKean County, PA 39,894 15.9 min 5.3% 7:29 AM
Clinton County, PA 37,796 17.6 min 9.2% 7:18 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Cameron County, Pennsylvania.

Is commuting expensive in Cameron County, Pennsylvania?

Commuters here spend an estimated 95 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $2,939 at a typical national wage. That's 49% less than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

What time should you leave for work to avoid traffic in Cameron County, Pennsylvania?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Cameron County, Pennsylvania. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Do people use public transit in Cameron County, Pennsylvania?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.5% of commuters use it versus 3.6% in Pennsylvania, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

Which counties in Pennsylvania have the fastest and slowest commutes?

Among counties in Pennsylvania, the shortest average commutes are in Cameron County (11.4 min), Elk County (15.4 min), McKean County (15.9 min). The longest are in Pike County (32.5 min), Perry County (32.0 min), Carbon County (30.5 min).