Ballenger Creek Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Ballenger Creek, Maryland: 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 Ballenger Creek: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Ballenger Creek spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 250 hours, about 10.4 full days, spent commuting. That is 6% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 1.8 minutes.

Ballenger Creek holds about 0.4% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.4% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Ballenger Creek would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,102 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)
Ballenger Creek	30.0 min	60.0 min	250 hrs/yr	$7,755	2,440
Maryland	28.3 min	56.5 min	236 hrs/yr	$7,301	2,353
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.

Ballenger Creek Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.0 minutes to get to work in Ballenger Creek. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 20.8% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Ballenger Creek

Riding a motorcycle is essentially absent in Ballenger Creek, versus 0.1% in Maryland.

Walking is unusually rare in Ballenger Creek: 4.5 times less than the Maryland average (0.5% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Ballenger Creek: 3.6 times less than the Maryland average (1.2% vs 4.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Ballenger Creek: 82.8 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.5%).

Biking is unusually common in Ballenger Creek: 4.3 times more than the Maryland average (1.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Ballenger Creek, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Ballenger Creek 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	Other	Public Transportation	Bicycle	Walked	Taxi	Motorcycle
2009	93.9%	3.0%	0.5%	1.6%	0.2%	0.9%	0.0%	0.0%
2010	93.2%	2.7%	0.5%	2.5%	0.3%	0.8%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	94.9%	2.7%	0.0%	1.5%	0.3%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2012	92.7%	4.0%	0.0%	2.7%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2013	91.7%	4.2%	0.0%	3.0%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.3%	5.0%	0.0%	3.9%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2015	90.8%	5.5%	0.1%	2.8%	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2016	89.7%	6.5%	0.1%	2.9%	0.0%	0.7%	0.1%	0.0%
2017	91.0%	5.3%	0.1%	1.8%	0.1%	1.6%	0.1%	0.0%
2018	91.0%	5.6%	0.2%	1.9%	0.1%	1.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2019	90.8%	5.5%	0.3%	2.3%	0.2%	0.9%	0.1%	0.0%
2020	84.2%	10.2%	1.4%	2.7%	0.1%	1.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	80.6%	14.4%	1.6%	2.2%	0.1%	1.0%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	78.4%	16.6%	1.9%	2.0%	0.8%	0.4%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	74.4%	21.3%	1.5%	1.4%	1.2%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%
2024	75.0%	20.8%	1.4%	1.2%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share was highest in 2011 at 94.9% and lowest in 2023 at 74.4%. Overall it fell from 93.9% in 2009 to 75.0% in 2024, down 18.9 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Ballenger Creek: its share of workers rose from 3.0% in 2009 to 20.8% in 2024, up 17.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 15.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Biking overtook walking to become the 5th most common choice in the 2022 release and has stayed ahead since.

Public transit peaked at 3.9% in 2014 and has since fallen back to 1.2%.

Commute Start Times in Ballenger Creek

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Ballenger Creek?

The bars show when commuters in Ballenger Creek 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 Maryland for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM		3.5%
5:00-5:29 AM		5.9%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.3%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.7%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.7%
7:00-7:29 AM		12.6%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.7%
8:00-8:29 AM		12.6%
8:30-8:59 AM		4.8%
9:00-9:59 AM		6.4%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.4%
11:00-11:59 AM		3.8%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.8%
4:00-11:59 PM		9.7%

Ballenger Creek Maryland Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Ballenger Creek is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 12.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are about as common as in Maryland: 15.7% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Maryland's: 43.6% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (27.1%) 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 Ballenger Creek, 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 Ballenger Creek 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 Ballenger Creek next to Maryland 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	Ballenger Creek	Maryland	United States
2009	7:17 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:26 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:32 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:36 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:20 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:18 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:19 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:32 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:43 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Ballenger Creek were on the road by 7:43 AM, 26 minutes later than in 2009 (7:17 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Ballenger Creek now leave 5 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Ballenger Creek has moved 17 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Ballenger Creek in the whole series.

How does Ballenger Creek's commute time compare?

Metric	Ballenger Creek	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.0 min	28.3 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	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	20.8%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.5%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.2%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Ballenger Creek is 30.0 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

1.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.5% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Ballenger Creek, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Ballenger Creek, MD compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Ballenger Creek, MD	22,962	30.0 min #2/2	20.8% #1/2	7:43 AM #2/2
Frederick, MD	76,727	21.0 min	17.6%	7:31 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Ballenger Creek, Maryland.

Is living in Ballenger Creek, Maryland good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 250 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,755 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Ballenger Creek, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Ballenger Creek, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

How common is public transit use in Ballenger Creek, Maryland?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 1.2% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.