Montour County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Montour County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Montour County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 139 hours, about 5.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 26% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 5.7 minutes.

Montour County holds about 0.1% of Pennsylvania's population and accounts for roughly 0.1% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Montour County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,720 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)
Montour County	16.6 min	33.3 min	139 hrs/yr	$4,300	1,107
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 16.6 minutes to get to work in Montour County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Among the top 5 fastest 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 12.9% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Montour County

• Car: 78.3%
• Worked at Home: 12.9%
• Walked: 7.4%
• Other: 0.9%
• Taxi: 0.2%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

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

Public transit is unusually rare in Montour County: 16.7 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.6%).

Biking is unusually rare in Montour County: 6.3 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.1% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Montour County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Montour 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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• Worked at Home
• Walked
• Other
• Public Transportation
• Taxi
• Bicycle
• Motorcycle

Show commute mode data by year

Year	Car	Worked at Home	Walked	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	91.3%	3.3%	4.4%	0.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	90.7%	3.4%	4.8%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2011	89.7%	3.7%	5.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2012	89.9%	3.6%	5.6%	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	88.6%	3.8%	6.2%	0.5%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2014	89.2%	3.9%	5.0%	0.5%	1.0%	0.1%	0.3%	0.0%
2015	89.4%	4.2%	4.7%	0.2%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2016	88.1%	4.1%	5.8%	0.7%	0.8%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%
2017	87.6%	4.3%	6.1%	0.9%	0.7%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2018	87.7%	5.1%	5.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.1%	0.4%	0.0%
2019	90.2%	5.0%	3.8%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	88.0%	5.8%	5.0%	0.9%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	84.5%	8.8%	6.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	83.7%	10.0%	5.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2023	80.8%	11.2%	6.9%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	78.3%	12.9%	7.4%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Overall its share fell from 91.3% in 2009 to 78.3% in 2024, down 13.0 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Montour County: its share of workers rose from 3.3% in 2009 to 12.9% in 2024, up 9.6 percentage points. Most of that increase, 7.9 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2019 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Montour County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Montour County?

The bars show when commuters in Montour 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 Montour County4.5% Pennsylvania5.3%	4.5%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Montour County5.7% Pennsylvania3.9%	5.7%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Montour County6.1% Pennsylvania5.3%	6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Montour County10.7% Pennsylvania8.9%	10.7%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Montour County12.4% Pennsylvania10.1%	12.4%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Montour County21.3% Pennsylvania13.8%	21.3%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Montour County9.1% Pennsylvania11.4%	9.1%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Montour County8.3% Pennsylvania10.9%	8.3%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Montour County2.4% Pennsylvania5.8%	2.4%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Montour County5.2% Pennsylvania6.1%	5.2%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Montour County2.4% Pennsylvania2.7%	2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Montour County0.4% Pennsylvania1.4%	0.4%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Montour County4.0% Pennsylvania7.6%	4.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Montour County7.5% Pennsylvania6.9%	7.5%

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

The busiest time to head out in Montour County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 21.3% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 16.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Pennsylvania: 51.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (19.5%) 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 Montour 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 Montour 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 Montour 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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• Pennsylvania
• United States

Show typical departure times by year

Year	Montour County	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:28 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:25 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:25 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:23 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:20 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:21 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:19 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:17 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:17 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Montour County were on the road by 7:15 AM, 16 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:32 AM). The shift is sharper than across Pennsylvania, where the typical start moved 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Montour County now leave 23 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 Montour County has moved 2 minutes earlier.

How does Montour County's commute time compare?

Metric	Montour County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	16.6 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	12.9%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	7.4%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Montour County is 16.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 7.4% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau