Mifflin County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Mifflin County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Mifflin County spend about 38 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 157 hours, about 6.5 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Mifflin County holds about 0.4% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 0.3% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Mifflin County would save about 63 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,943 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)
Mifflin County	18.8 min	37.6 min	157 hrs/yr	$4,857	738
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.

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On average, it takes 18.8 minutes to get to work in Mifflin County. That's 16% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 6.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Mifflin County

• Car: 91.0% unusually high
• Worked at Home: 6.6%
• Walked: 1.4%
• Other: 0.7%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Driving is 20% more common in Mifflin County than the Pennsylvania average (91.0% vs 75.7%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Mifflin County: 15.1 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.6%).

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

Biking is unusually rare in Mifflin County: 7.8 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Mifflin County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Mifflin 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.

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Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Motorcycle	Bicycle	Taxi
2009	91.3%	3.9%	3.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	91.4%	3.1%	3.8%	1.1%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2011	91.1%	3.2%	4.3%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	90.6%	3.3%	4.3%	1.1%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	91.5%	2.7%	4.0%	1.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	91.2%	3.0%	4.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.1%
2015	90.8%	3.0%	4.1%	1.5%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	91.4%	3.0%	3.5%	1.5%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	90.7%	3.8%	3.2%	1.6%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	90.7%	4.7%	3.0%	1.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2019	91.7%	4.3%	2.4%	1.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2020	92.1%	4.8%	2.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	91.5%	5.3%	2.0%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2022	91.8%	5.3%	1.5%	0.8%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	91.7%	5.5%	1.5%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	91.0%	6.6%	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2020 at 92.1% and lowest in 2012 at 90.6%. Overall it held roughly steady, at 91.3% in 2009 and 91.0% in 2024. It has fallen in each of the last 2 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Mifflin County: its share of workers rose from 3.9% in 2009 to 6.6% in 2024, up 2.7 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 3.5% to 1.4% of workers (down 2.1 percentage points).

Commute Start Times in Mifflin County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Mifflin County?

The bars show when commuters in Mifflin 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	12:00-4:59 AM Mifflin County8.4% Pennsylvania5.3%	8.4%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Mifflin County6.6% Pennsylvania3.9%	6.6%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Mifflin County9.3% Pennsylvania5.3%	9.3%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Mifflin County11.1% Pennsylvania8.9%	11.1%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Mifflin County8.1% Pennsylvania10.1%	8.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Mifflin County10.9% Pennsylvania13.8%	10.9%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Mifflin County13.0% Pennsylvania11.4%	13.0%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Mifflin County9.1% Pennsylvania10.9%	9.1%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Mifflin County3.2% Pennsylvania5.8%	3.2%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Mifflin County3.2% Pennsylvania6.1%	3.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Mifflin County2.2% Pennsylvania2.7%	2.2%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Mifflin County1.7% Pennsylvania1.4%	1.7%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Mifflin County7.4% Pennsylvania7.6%	7.4%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Mifflin County5.8% Pennsylvania6.9%	5.8%

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

The busiest time to head out in Mifflin County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.4% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 24.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Pennsylvania: 41.1% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (20.3%) 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 Mifflin 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 Mifflin 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 Mifflin 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.

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Show typical departure times by year

Year	Mifflin County	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:24 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:16 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Mifflin County were on the road by 7:18 AM, 6 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:24 AM). The shift is sharper than across Pennsylvania, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Mifflin 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 Mifflin County has moved 2 minutes later.

How does Mifflin County's commute time compare?

Metric	Mifflin County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.8 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	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	6.6%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	1.4%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Mifflin County is 18.8 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 1.4% commute by walking, lower than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau