Snyder County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Snyder County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Snyder County spend about 36 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 150 hours, about 6.3 full days, spent commuting. That is 19% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.4 minutes each way, a difference of 4.3 minutes.

Snyder County holds about 0.3% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 0.2% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Snyder County would save about 60 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,865 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)
Snyder County	18.0 min	36.1 min	150 hrs/yr	$4,662	892
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 18.0 minutes to get to work in Snyder County. That's 19% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

Faster than 79% of counties in Pennsylvania

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 9.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Snyder County

• Car: 82.5%
• Worked at Home: 9.0%
• Walked: 6.1%
• Bicycle: 1.4% unusually high
• Other: 0.6%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Public transit is unusually rare in Snyder County: 17.3 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.6%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Snyder County: 3.6 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.1% vs 0.2%).

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

Commute Mode Trends in Snyder County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Snyder 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	Bicycle	Other	Public Transportation	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	86.6%	7.1%	4.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2010	88.1%	6.6%	3.4%	0.6%	0.9%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
2011	89.7%	4.9%	3.2%	0.7%	0.9%	0.4%	0.0%	0.2%
2012	89.2%	6.1%	2.4%	0.8%	0.8%	0.3%	0.1%	0.2%
2013	88.0%	6.6%	2.8%	1.0%	0.8%	0.5%	0.1%	0.2%
2014	88.9%	6.2%	2.5%	1.0%	0.7%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2015	87.6%	6.9%	3.1%	1.2%	0.6%	0.4%	0.1%	0.1%
2016	87.1%	7.6%	2.9%	1.2%	0.8%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%
2017	87.3%	7.2%	3.4%	1.1%	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.0%
2018	87.7%	6.7%	3.9%	1.1%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2019	87.3%	6.6%	4.3%	1.1%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.7%	6.7%	4.3%	1.2%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%
2021	85.9%	6.6%	5.2%	1.3%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.2%
2022	84.6%	7.0%	5.9%	1.5%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	83.0%	8.6%	6.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	82.5%	9.0%	6.1%	1.4%	0.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2011 at 89.7%. Overall it fell from 86.6% in 2009 to 82.5% in 2024, down 4.1 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 6 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Snyder County: its share of workers rose from 7.1% in 2009 to 9.0% in 2024, up 1.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 2.4 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Commute Start Times in Snyder County

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Snyder County?

The bars show when commuters in Snyder 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 Snyder County8.2% Pennsylvania5.3%	8.2%
5:00-5:29 AM	5:00-5:29 AM Snyder County6.5% Pennsylvania3.9%	6.5%
5:30-5:59 AM	5:30-5:59 AM Snyder County9.4% Pennsylvania5.3%	9.4%
6:00-6:29 AM	6:00-6:29 AM Snyder County9.8% Pennsylvania8.9%	9.8%
6:30-6:59 AM	6:30-6:59 AM Snyder County9.1% Pennsylvania10.1%	9.1%
7:00-7:29 AM	7:00-7:29 AM Snyder County12.8% Pennsylvania13.8%	12.8%
7:30-7:59 AM	7:30-7:59 AM Snyder County11.4% Pennsylvania11.4%	11.4%
8:00-8:29 AM	8:00-8:29 AM Snyder County7.2% Pennsylvania10.9%	7.2%
8:30-8:59 AM	8:30-8:59 AM Snyder County4.3% Pennsylvania5.8%	4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM	9:00-9:59 AM Snyder County4.7% Pennsylvania6.1%	4.7%
10:00-10:59 AM	10:00-10:59 AM Snyder County1.5% Pennsylvania2.7%	1.5%
11:00-11:59 AM	11:00-11:59 AM Snyder County1.0% Pennsylvania1.4%	1.0%
12:00-3:59 PM	12:00-3:59 PM Snyder County8.0% Pennsylvania7.6%	8.0%
4:00-11:59 PM	4:00-11:59 PM Snyder County6.0% Pennsylvania6.9%	6.0%

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

The busiest time to head out in Snyder County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.8% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.8% across Pennsylvania. Early starts are more common than in Pennsylvania: 24.1% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.4% there. The morning rush is more spread out than in Pennsylvania: 40.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.2% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.2%) 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 Snyder 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 Snyder 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 Snyder 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	Snyder County	Pennsylvania	United States
2009	7:13 AM	7:39 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:19 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:17 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:18 AM	7:39 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:21 AM	7:38 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:16 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:15 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:11 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:07 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:13 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:14 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:14 AM	7:38 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:16 AM	7:37 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Snyder County were on the road by 7:16 AM, 3 minutes later than in 2009 (7:13 AM). That goes against the trend across Pennsylvania, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes earlier than in 2009. Commuters in Snyder County now leave 22 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 Snyder County has moved 5 minutes later.

How does Snyder County's commute time compare?

Metric	Snyder County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	18.0 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	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	9.0%	15.6%	15.0%
Walked	6.1%	3.2%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	3.6%	3.2%

The average commute time in Snyder County is 18.0 minutes, shorter than the 22.4 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.6% in Pennsylvania. 6.1% commute by walking, higher than the 3.2% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau