Somerset County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Somerset County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Somerset County spend about 41 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 172 hours, about 7.2 full days, spent commuting.

That is 8% less time on the road than the Pennsylvania average of 22.5 minutes each way, a difference of 1.9 minutes.

Somerset County holds about 0.6% of Pennsylvania's population but accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Somerset County would save about 69 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,129 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)
Somerset County	20.6 min	41.2 min	172 hrs/yr	$5,324	697
Pennsylvania	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,802	1,152
United States	22.5 min	44.9 min	187 hrs/yr	$5,803	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.

Commute Time Map: Pennsylvania Counties

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On average, it takes 20.6 minutes to get to work in Somerset County. That's 8% shorter than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM , followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 7.5% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 89.3%
• Worked at Home: 7.5%
• Walked: 2.2%
• Other: 0.8%
• Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Motorcycle: < 0.1% unusually low

Motorcycle commuting is unusually low in Somerset County: 12.5 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Public Transportation commuting is unusually low in Somerset County: 25.2 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.2% vs 3.9%).

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Somerset County: 4.3 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.0% vs 0.2%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Somerset County: 15.2 times less than the Pennsylvania average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

How does Somerset County's commute time compare?

Metric	Somerset County	Pennsylvania	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	20.6 min	22.5 min	22.5 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	7.5%	13.8%	13.4%
Walked	2.2%	3.3%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.2%	3.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Somerset County is 20.6 minutes, shorter than the 22.5 minutes in Pennsylvania.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 3.9% in Pennsylvania. 2.2% commute by walking, lower than the 3.3% in Pennsylvania.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau