Crawford County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Crawford County, 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 Crawford County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Crawford County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 151 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Crawford County holds about 0.6% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Crawford County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,869 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)
Crawford County	18.1 min	36.2 min	151 hrs/yr	$4,672	457
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

Cameron County (11.4 min)
Elk County (15.4 min)
McKean County (15.9 min)

Slowest commutes among counties in Pennsylvania

Pike County (32.5 min)
Perry County (32.0 min)
Carbon County (30.5 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Crawford County

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Average commute time

On average, it takes 18.1 minutes to get to work in Crawford County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 76% of counties in Pennsylvania

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 06:30 AM – 06:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 7.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Crawford County

Public transit is unusually rare in Crawford County: 7.6 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.5% vs 3.6%).

Commute Mode Trends in Crawford County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Crawford 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	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.3%	4.3%	7.4%	0.8%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	86.7%	4.0%	7.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	87.1%	4.3%	6.4%	0.9%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.3%
2012	88.1%	4.4%	5.6%	0.9%	0.1%	0.4%	0.2%	0.3%
2013	88.0%	4.5%	5.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.4%
2014	88.3%	4.5%	5.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%	0.3%
2015	88.5%	4.5%	5.3%	0.8%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2016	88.7%	4.2%	5.3%	0.9%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	87.9%	4.2%	6.1%	0.8%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%
2018	87.9%	4.6%	5.9%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	88.1%	4.4%	5.7%	0.9%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	87.5%	5.0%	6.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	86.8%	5.7%	5.8%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2022	85.8%	6.5%	5.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2023	85.6%	7.0%	5.5%	0.7%	0.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2024	84.1%	7.7%	5.8%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.4%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2016 at 88.7%. Overall it fell from 86.3% in 2009 to 84.1% in 2024, down 2.2 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Crawford County: its share of workers rose from 4.3% in 2009 to 7.7% in 2024, up 3.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 3.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 7.4% to 5.8% of workers (down 1.6 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Crawford County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crawford County?

The bars show when commuters in Crawford 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		5.8%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.0%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.4%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		7.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.1%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.2%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM		9.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Crawford County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.4% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 16.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush looks much like Pennsylvania's: 45.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.0%) 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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	Crawford County	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:33 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:33 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:34 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:33 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:31 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:28 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Crawford County were on the road by 7:26 AM, 11 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:37 AM). The shift is sharper than across Pennsylvania, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Crawford County now leave 12 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 Crawford County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Crawford County's commute time compare?

Metric	Crawford County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.1 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	7.7%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	5.8%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.5%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Crawford County is 18.1 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.5% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 5.8% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Crawford County, PA Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Crawford County, PA is typical in size for this group, 82,709 residents against a local median of 97,227, so the measures below are close to a like for like comparison. Nothing separates Crawford County, PA 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, 13% below the local median at 7.7% against 8.9%. Crawford County, PA has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Crawford County, PA	82,709	18.1 min #3/6	7.7% #5/6	7:26 AM #3/6
Mercer County, PA	109,257	17.4 min	9.3%	7:36 AM
Erie County, PA	269,043	17.6 min	8.9%	7:41 AM
Venango County, PA	49,798	18.5 min	8.8%	7:23 AM
Ashtabula County, OH	97,227	22.3 min	5.8%	7:20 AM
Lawrence County, PA	85,016	20.1 min	13.4%	7:33 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Crawford County, Pennsylvania?

Commuters here spend an estimated 151 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,672 at a typical national wage. That's 19% less than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Crawford County, Pennsylvania?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Crawford 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.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Crawford 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.

How do commute times compare across counties in Pennsylvania?

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).