Pottstown Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Pottstown, 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 Pottstown: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Pottstown spend about 45 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 188 hours, about 7.8 full days, spent commuting. That is 1% more time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 0.2 minutes.

Pottstown 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 Pottstown would save about 75 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,335 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)
Pottstown	22.6 min	45.2 min	188 hrs/yr	$5,837	1,594
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.

Pottstown Commute Map

On average, it takes 22.6 minutes to get to work in Pottstown. That's 1% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

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 10.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Pottstown

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

Biking is unusually common in Pottstown: 3.2 times more than the Pennsylvania average (1.4% vs 0.4%).

Commute Mode Trends in Pottstown, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Pottstown 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	Bicycle	Other	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.5%	2.3%	6.6%	2.6%	0.5%	1.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2010	87.9%	2.4%	5.5%	2.3%	0.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	86.8%	1.9%	7.0%	2.3%	0.4%	1.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2012	86.4%	1.6%	7.0%	2.6%	0.5%	1.9%	0.0%	0.1%
2013	85.5%	1.4%	8.0%	2.9%	0.5%	1.6%	0.0%	0.1%
2014	87.0%	1.7%	6.5%	1.9%	0.5%	2.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	85.8%	1.9%	6.8%	3.0%	0.5%	2.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	86.3%	2.9%	4.7%	3.9%	0.5%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	85.1%	3.3%	4.9%	5.0%	0.1%	1.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2018	86.7%	3.3%	4.4%	3.8%	0.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.1%
2019	85.4%	4.2%	4.1%	4.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.4%	0.1%
2020	87.0%	5.1%	3.4%	3.0%	0.0%	1.1%	0.3%	0.1%
2021	84.5%	6.8%	3.8%	2.2%	0.1%	1.6%	0.8%	0.1%
2022	82.4%	9.5%	3.2%	2.3%	0.3%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%
2023	79.0%	10.4%	4.5%	2.1%	1.7%	1.6%	0.7%	0.0%
2024	80.2%	10.6%	4.2%	2.1%	1.4%	1.0%	0.3%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2010 at 87.9% and lowest in 2023 at 79.0%. Overall it fell from 86.5% in 2009 to 80.2% in 2024, down 6.3 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Pottstown: its share of workers rose from 2.3% in 2009 to 10.6% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 6.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 6.6% to 4.2% of workers (down 2.4 percentage points).

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

Public transit peaked at 5.0% in 2017 and has since fallen back to 2.1%.

Commute Start Times in Pottstown

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Pottstown?

The bars show when commuters in Pottstown 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		7.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		4.4%
6:00-6:29 AM		7.0%
6:30-6:59 AM		11.2%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.1%
7:30-7:59 AM		8.0%
8:00-8:29 AM		10.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.7%
9:00-9:59 AM		4.5%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.0%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.0%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.7%
4:00-11:59 PM		10.9%

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

The busiest time to head out in Pottstown is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 14.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 17.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Pennsylvania: 44.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (25.2%) 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 Pottstown, 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 Pottstown 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 Pottstown 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	Pottstown	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:35 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:34 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:41 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:39 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:38 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:39 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:42 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:44 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:41 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:43 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:42 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:32 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Pottstown were on the road by 7:32 AM, 2 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:34 AM). Pennsylvania followed the same path, with the typical start moving 2 minutes earlier. Commuters in Pottstown now leave 6 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 Pottstown has moved 9 minutes earlier. The 2024 release is the earliest typical start for Pottstown in the whole series.

How does Pottstown's commute time compare?

Metric	Pottstown	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	22.6 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	10.6%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	4.2%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.1%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Pottstown is 22.6 minutes, longer than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

2.1% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 4.2% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Pottstown, Pennsylvania?

Commuters here spend an estimated 188 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $5,837 at a typical national wage. That's 1% more than the typical Pennsylvania commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Pottstown, Pennsylvania?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Pottstown, 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.