Easton Commute Time Map & Patterns

Help

Commuting in Easton, Pennsylvania: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

You 9/24/26, 4:18 PM

What does a typical morning commute look like in Easton?

Map AI 9/24/26, 4:18 PM

Commute Time Burden in Easton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Easton spend about 42 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 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 1.1 minutes.

Easton holds about 0.2% of Pennsylvania's population and accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Easton would save about 71 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,193 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)
Easton	21.2 min	42.5 min	177 hrs/yr	$5,484	1,349
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.

Easton Commute Map

On average, it takes 21.2 minutes to get to work in Easton. That's 5% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 14.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Easton

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

Commute Mode Trends in Easton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Easton 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	Public Transportation	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	87.7%	3.4%	4.3%	3.9%	0.5%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2010	86.6%	4.5%	4.3%	3.7%	0.7%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2011	86.2%	4.7%	4.1%	4.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.3%	0.0%
2012	85.8%	4.5%	4.7%	3.9%	0.9%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	86.5%	4.0%	4.2%	4.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%
2014	83.5%	5.3%	5.1%	4.1%	1.3%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%
2015	84.3%	3.7%	5.7%	4.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%
2016	82.1%	4.5%	5.9%	4.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%
2017	80.9%	4.5%	6.5%	4.4%	2.8%	0.0%	0.7%	0.2%
2018	79.5%	4.4%	8.1%	4.5%	3.1%	0.1%	0.2%	0.2%
2019	80.5%	4.1%	8.8%	3.5%	2.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%
2020	79.5%	6.4%	8.1%	3.7%	1.8%	0.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	77.8%	8.0%	8.5%	3.6%	1.7%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2022	78.0%	10.5%	6.5%	2.3%	2.1%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2023	78.3%	11.5%	5.4%	2.1%	1.8%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%
2024	77.4%	14.8%	3.9%	2.0%	0.8%	0.6%	0.5%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 87.7% in 2009 to 77.4% in 2024, down 10.3 percentage points. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Easton: its share of workers rose from 3.4% in 2009 to 14.8% in 2024, up 11.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 3.9% to 2.0% of workers (down 1.9 percentage points).

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

Walking peaked at 8.8% in 2019 and has since fallen back to 3.9%.

Commute Start Times in Easton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Easton?

The bars show when commuters in Easton 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		5.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.0%
5:30-5:59 AM		0.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.6%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.2%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.8%
8:00-8:29 AM		6.9%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.6%
10:00-10:59 AM		4.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.5%
12:00-3:59 PM		14.0%
4:00-11:59 PM		7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Easton is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 14.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.6% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are less common than in Pennsylvania: 11.4% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Pennsylvania: 42.7% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (32.0%) 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 Easton, 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 Easton 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 Easton 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	Easton	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:39 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:32 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:51 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:54 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:53 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:55 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:50 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:49 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Easton were on the road by 7:48 AM, 12 minutes later than in 2009 (7:36 AM). That goes against the trend across Pennsylvania, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Easton now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Easton has moved 6 minutes earlier.

How does Easton's commute time compare?

Metric	Easton	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	21.2 min	22.4 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	12:00 PM – 03:59 PM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	14.8%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.9%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.0%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Easton is 21.2 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

2.0% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 3.9% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Easton, Pennsylvania.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 177 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,484 at a typical national wage. That's 5% less than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

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

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Easton, Pennsylvania. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.