Hazleton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Hazleton, 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 Hazleton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Hazleton spend about 35 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 145 hours, about 6.0 full days, spent commuting. That is 22% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.0 minutes.

Hazleton 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 Hazleton would save about 58 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,794 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)
Hazleton	17.4 min	34.7 min	145 hrs/yr	$4,484	1,726
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.

Hazleton Commute Map

On average, it takes 17.4 minutes to get to work in Hazleton. That's 23% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM, followed by 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 3.4% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Hazleton

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

Working from home is unusually rare in Hazleton: 4.5 times less than the Pennsylvania average (3.4% vs 15.6%).

Biking is essentially absent in Hazleton, versus 0.4% in Pennsylvania.

Commute Mode Trends in Hazleton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Hazleton 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	Motorcycle	Bicycle
2009	90.6%	2.0%	4.5%	0.5%	1.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%
2010	90.3%	1.3%	4.9%	1.4%	1.1%	0.4%	0.0%	0.7%
2011	92.1%	1.0%	4.6%	1.4%	0.3%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	91.7%	0.5%	4.8%	1.7%	0.4%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.1%	1.0%	5.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	90.5%	0.6%	5.6%	2.5%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.3%	0.5%	5.6%	2.8%	0.2%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	89.5%	1.1%	5.9%	3.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2017	90.1%	1.2%	5.6%	2.8%	0.2%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	89.1%	1.7%	3.8%	2.8%	2.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	89.3%	2.3%	3.1%	2.2%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	89.3%	3.6%	2.2%	1.5%	3.5%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	89.7%	3.3%	2.2%	1.7%	3.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	88.4%	3.0%	2.3%	2.6%	3.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	91.0%	3.0%	2.3%	2.1%	1.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	90.3%	3.4%	3.0%	1.7%	0.9%	0.7%	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 2011 at 92.1% and lowest in 2022 at 88.4%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 90.6% in 2009 and 90.3% in 2024. It has fallen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Hazleton: its share of workers rose from 2.0% in 2009 to 3.4% in 2024, up 1.4 percentage points. Most of that increase, 1.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 4.5% to 3.0% of workers (down 1.5 percentage points).

Public transit overtook taking a taxi to become the 4th most common choice in the 2010 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.0% in 2016 and has since fallen back to 1.7%.

Commute Start Times in Hazleton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Hazleton?

The bars show when commuters in Hazleton 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		5.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		7.4%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		10.8%
6:30-6:59 AM		5.9%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.3%
7:30-7:59 AM		5.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		8.2%
8:30-8:59 AM		2.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.9%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		15.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		14.2%

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

The busiest time to head out in Hazleton is 12:00-3:59 PM, when 15.9% of commuters leave home, compared with 7.6% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 16.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Pennsylvania: 32.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 3 commuters (38.4%) 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 Hazleton, 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 Hazleton 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 Hazleton 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	Hazleton	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:54 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:54 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:57 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:46 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:46 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:43 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:43 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:48 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:56 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:57 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:53 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Hazleton were on the road by 7:53 AM, 1 minute earlier than in 2009 (7:54 AM). Pennsylvania followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Hazleton now leave 15 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 Hazleton has moved 13 minutes later.

How does Hazleton's commute time compare?

Metric	Hazleton	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	17.4 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	04:00 PM – 11:59 PM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	3.4%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	3.0%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Hazleton is 17.4 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

1.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 3.0% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Hazleton, Pennsylvania?

Commuters here spend an estimated 145 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,484 at a typical national wage. That's 22% less than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Hazleton, Pennsylvania?

Traffic peaks between 12:00 PM – 03:59 PM in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 04:00 PM – 11:59 PM also sees a secondary bump.