Nearly 1 in 4 Yonkers Workers Commute by Transit

Yonkers ranks among the top U.S. cities for public transit commuting, and its residents have some of the longest commutes in the country.

Across the U.S., fewer than 4% of workers take public transit to their jobs. In Yonkers, 23.1% do, more than six times the national rate. That puts Yonkers in the top 10 among U.S. cities of 100,000 or more for transit commuting, according to the Census Bureau’s 2024 survey.

How Yonkers Gets to Work

Share of workers 16 and older by main way of getting to work, 2020–2024

Public transit23.1%
Drove alone49.2%
Worked from home11.6%
Carpool, walk, bike & other16.1%

Long trips to work

With Metro-North lines along the Hudson and Harlem rivers and bus connections into the Bronx and Manhattan, many Yonkers residents work in New York City. That shows up in commute times. The average Yonkers worker spends 35.6 minutes getting to work each way, three minutes more than the New York State average and more than nine minutes longer than the national average.

Average Commute to Work

Mean one-way travel time, minutes

35.6Minutes, average one-way commute

6.7%Of workers commute 90+ minutes each way

49.2%Drive to work alone (U.S.: 69.2%)

11.6%Work from home

What it adds up to

A 35.6-minute commute each way works out to more than an hour a day, or roughly 300 hours a year for someone working five days a week. For the 6.7% of Yonkers workers with “super commutes” of 90 minutes or more, it’s three hours a day.

About this data

Yonkers figures are five-year estimates (2020–2024) from the American Community Survey. The U.S. transit and drive-alone rates (3.7% and 69.2%) and the top-10 ranking come from the 2024 one-year survey. The pandemic changed commuting sharply, so the 2020–2024 average includes years with unusually high work-from-home rates.