Beltsville Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Beltsville, 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 Beltsville: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Beltsville spend about 61 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 255 hours, about 10.6 full days, spent commuting. That is 8% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.4 minutes.

Beltsville 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 Beltsville would save about 102 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,166 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)
Beltsville	30.6 min	61.3 min	255 hrs/yr	$7,916	3,530
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.

Beltsville Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.6 minutes to get to work in Beltsville. That's 37% 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 13.0% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Beltsville

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Beltsville: 14004.1 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Commute Mode Trends in Beltsville, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Beltsville 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	Public Transportation	Walked	Other	Taxi	Bicycle	Motorcycle
2009	83.7%	3.1%	9.5%	3.0%	0.3%	0.0%	0.4%	0.0%
2010	86.0%	2.7%	7.3%	3.5%	0.4%	0.0%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	86.9%	3.1%	6.7%	3.0%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	86.2%	3.2%	7.4%	3.0%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2013	86.8%	2.9%	7.6%	2.4%	0.1%	0.0%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	87.1%	2.4%	7.6%	2.5%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
2015	85.1%	3.5%	7.9%	2.6%	0.2%	0.3%	0.1%	0.3%
2016	84.1%	3.2%	8.9%	2.7%	0.3%	0.5%	0.2%	0.2%
2017	84.7%	2.1%	10.2%	1.2%	0.8%	0.5%	0.2%	0.4%
2018	84.2%	1.9%	10.0%	1.3%	1.5%	0.6%	0.0%	0.4%
2019	83.3%	2.7%	9.3%	1.4%	2.2%	0.6%	0.0%	0.5%
2020	80.3%	6.3%	8.9%	1.2%	2.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2021	81.5%	7.6%	6.8%	0.8%	2.4%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2022	80.7%	10.3%	4.9%	0.9%	2.3%	0.6%	0.2%	0.0%
2023	78.0%	11.9%	5.4%	2.0%	1.8%	0.8%	0.2%	0.0%
2024	78.7%	13.0%	4.4%	1.8%	1.2%	0.7%	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 2014 at 87.1% and lowest in 2023 at 78.0%. Overall it fell from 83.7% in 2009 to 78.7% in 2024, down 5.0 percentage points. It has risen in the latest release.

Working from home gained the most ground in Beltsville: its share of workers rose from 3.1% in 2009 to 13.0% in 2024, up 9.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.3 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 9.5% to 4.4% of workers (down 5.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Beltsville

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Beltsville?

The bars show when commuters in Beltsville 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		1.9%
5:00-5:29 AM		6.3%
5:30-5:59 AM		5.9%
6:00-6:29 AM		8.1%
6:30-6:59 AM		12.0%
7:00-7:29 AM		13.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		11.2%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.7%
8:30-8:59 AM		7.0%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.0%
10:00-10:59 AM		2.7%
11:00-11:59 AM		0.1%
12:00-3:59 PM		11.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.7%

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

The busiest time to head out in Beltsville is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 13.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are about as common as in Maryland: 14.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maryland: 48.0% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.7%) 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 Beltsville, 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 Beltsville 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 Beltsville 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	Beltsville	Maryland	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:33 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:41 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:46 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:38 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:37 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:40 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:37 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:30 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:37 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:41 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:37 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Beltsville were on the road by 7:37 AM, 4 minutes later than in 2009 (7:33 AM). Maryland followed the same path, with the typical start moving 4 minutes later. Commuters in Beltsville now leave at about the same time as the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Beltsville has moved 3 minutes earlier.

How does Beltsville's commute time compare?

Metric	Beltsville	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.6 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	06:30 AM – 06:59 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	13.0%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	4.4%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Beltsville is 30.6 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

4.4% commute by public transit, higher than the 4.2% in Maryland. 1.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Beltsville, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Beltsville, MD compares with the 2 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Beltsville, MD	21,815	30.6 min #2/3	13.0% #3/3	7:37 AM #1/3
College Park, MD	31,178	22.6 min	15.8%	8:32 AM
Fairland, MD	25,162	32.2 min	17.7%	7:46 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Beltsville, Maryland.

What is the financial impact of commuting in Beltsville, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 255 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,916 at a typical national wage. That's 8% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

What are the busiest morning travel hours in Beltsville, Maryland?

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