Calvert County Commute Time Map & Patterns

Commute Time Burden in Calvert County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Calvert County spend about 71 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 294 hours, about 12.3 full days, spent commuting.

That is 23% more time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.8 minutes each way, a difference of 6.5 minutes.

Calvert County holds about 1.5% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 1.9% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Calvert County would save about 118 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,646 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)
Calvert County	35.3 min	70.6 min	294 hrs/yr	$9,115	1,709
Maryland	28.8 min	57.5 min	240 hrs/yr	$7,433	2,353
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: Maryland Counties

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On average, it takes 35.3 minutes to get to work in Calvert County. That's 57% longer than the 22.5-minute U.S. average.

Among the 3 slowest counties in Maryland

The most common departure window is 06:00 AM – 06:29 AM , followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM .

Most people travel to work by Car , followed by Worked at Home . About 16.4% work from home.

Commute mode distribution

• Car: 80.0%
• Worked at Home: 16.4%
• Public Transportation: 1.7%
• Walked: 0.8%
• Other: 0.8%
• Motorcycle: 0.1%
• Bicycle: < 0.1% unusually low
• Taxi: < 0.1% unusually low

Taxi commuting is unusually low in Calvert County: 42.7 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.4%).

Bicycle commuting is unusually low in Calvert County: 3.3 times less than the Maryland average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

How does Calvert County's commute time compare?

Metric	Calvert County	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	35.3 min	28.8 min	22.5 min
Departure Window	06:00 AM – 06:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window	07:00 AM – 07:29 AM	08:00 AM – 08:29 AM	07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home	16.4%	17.2%	13.4%
Walked	0.8%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	1.7%	4.9%	3.5%

The average commute time in Calvert County is 35.3 minutes, longer than the 28.8 minutes in Maryland.

1.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.9% in Maryland. 0.8% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau