Commuting in Cecil County, 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 Cecil County: Annual Hours and Cost
Commuters in Cecil County spend about 51 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 213 hours, about 8.9 full days, spent commuting. That is 10% less time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 2.8 minutes.
Cecil County holds about 1.7% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 1.5% of its total commuting time.
Working from home just 2 days a week in Cecil County would save about 85 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,636 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)
Cecil County
25.5 min
51.0 min
213 hrs/yr
$6,589
1,435
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.
On average, it takes
25.5
minutes to get to work in
Cecil County.
That's 14% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.
The most common departure window is 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM, followed by 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 12.4% work from home.
How People Get to Work in Cecil County
Car:
83.8%
Worked at Home:
12.4%
Walked:
2.0%
Other:
0.9%
Public Transportation:
0.3%unusually low
Taxi:
0.3%
Motorcycle:
0.1%
Bicycle:
0.1%
Public transit is unusually rare in Cecil County: 14.9 times less than the Maryland average (0.3% vs 4.2%).
Commute Mode Trends in Cecil County, 2009-2024
This chart shows how workers in Cecil County 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
Walked
Other
Public Transportation
Taxi
Motorcycle
Bicycle
2009
92.4%
4.1%
1.4%
0.3%
1.2%
0.1%
0.3%
0.1%
2010
92.6%
4.1%
1.3%
0.4%
1.1%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2011
92.5%
4.2%
1.4%
0.3%
1.2%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2012
91.7%
4.6%
1.8%
0.4%
1.1%
0.1%
0.2%
0.1%
2013
91.3%
4.8%
1.9%
0.5%
1.1%
0.2%
0.1%
0.2%
2014
91.8%
4.6%
1.9%
0.6%
0.7%
0.1%
0.0%
0.2%
2015
91.4%
4.7%
2.0%
0.5%
1.1%
0.1%
0.0%
0.1%
2016
91.4%
4.6%
1.7%
0.7%
1.2%
0.2%
0.0%
0.2%
2017
91.2%
4.6%
1.6%
1.1%
1.2%
0.2%
0.0%
0.0%
2018
91.6%
4.5%
1.3%
1.1%
1.3%
0.1%
0.0%
0.0%
2019
92.2%
3.8%
1.2%
1.2%
1.4%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2020
91.1%
4.8%
1.6%
1.3%
1.0%
0.1%
0.1%
0.0%
2021
89.0%
6.8%
1.7%
1.3%
0.7%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
2022
87.9%
8.6%
1.7%
0.8%
0.6%
0.2%
0.1%
0.1%
2023
85.7%
10.4%
1.8%
1.0%
0.5%
0.3%
0.2%
0.1%
2024
83.8%
12.4%
2.0%
0.9%
0.3%
0.3%
0.1%
0.1%
Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2010 at 92.6%. Overall it fell from 92.4% in 2009 to 83.8% in 2024, down 8.6 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.
Working from home gained the most ground in Cecil County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 12.4% in 2024, up 8.3 percentage points. Most of that increase, 8.6 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.
Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 1.2% to 0.3% of workers (down 0.9 percentage points).
Commute Start Times in Cecil County
What Time Do People Leave for Work in Cecil County?
The bars show when commuters in Cecil County 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
12:00-4:59 AMCecil County7.1%Maryland5.5%
7.1%
5:00-5:29 AM
5:00-5:29 AMCecil County5.5%Maryland4.5%
5.5%
5:30-5:59 AM
5:30-5:59 AMCecil County8.0%Maryland4.8%
8.0%
6:00-6:29 AM
6:00-6:29 AMCecil County9.6%Maryland9.2%
9.6%
6:30-6:59 AM
6:30-6:59 AMCecil County9.2%Maryland8.6%
9.2%
7:00-7:29 AM
7:00-7:29 AMCecil County15.1%Maryland14.0%
15.1%
7:30-7:59 AM
7:30-7:59 AMCecil County10.7%Maryland10.8%
10.7%
8:00-8:29 AM
8:00-8:29 AMCecil County9.2%Maryland11.9%
9.2%
8:30-8:59 AM
8:30-8:59 AMCecil County4.3%Maryland6.2%
4.3%
9:00-9:59 AM
9:00-9:59 AMCecil County5.9%Maryland7.9%
5.9%
10:00-10:59 AM
10:00-10:59 AMCecil County1.8%Maryland3.3%
1.8%
11:00-11:59 AM
11:00-11:59 AMCecil County1.2%Maryland1.5%
1.2%
12:00-3:59 PM
12:00-3:59 PMCecil County6.4%Maryland6.3%
6.4%
4:00-11:59 PM
4:00-11:59 PMCecil County6.1%Maryland5.5%
6.1%
Cecil CountyMarylandSource: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates
The busiest time to head out in Cecil County is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 15.1% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 20.6% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Maryland's: 44.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 5 commuters (21.2%) 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 Cecil County, 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 Cecil County 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 Cecil County 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
Cecil County
Maryland
United States
2009
7:22 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2010
7:21 AM
7:36 AM
7:38 AM
2011
7:16 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2012
7:16 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2013
7:13 AM
7:35 AM
7:39 AM
2014
7:17 AM
7:35 AM
7:39 AM
2015
7:18 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2016
7:20 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2017
7:17 AM
7:35 AM
7:38 AM
2018
7:16 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2019
7:14 AM
7:35 AM
7:37 AM
2020
7:16 AM
7:36 AM
7:37 AM
2021
7:18 AM
7:37 AM
7:37 AM
2022
7:20 AM
7:38 AM
7:37 AM
2023
7:21 AM
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
2024
7:21 AM
7:39 AM
7:38 AM
In 2024, half of commuters in Cecil County were on the road by 7:21 AM, almost exactly the same as in 2009. Across Maryland, meanwhile, the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Cecil County now leave 17 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Cecil County has moved 7 minutes later.
How does Cecil County's commute time compare?
Metric
Cecil County
Maryland
US Average
Avg. Commute Time
25.5 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
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
08:00 AM – 08:29 AM
07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home
12.4%
19.3%
15.0%
Walked
2.0%
2.0%
2.4%
Public Transit
0.3%
4.2%
3.2%
The average commute time in Cecil County is 25.5 minutes, shorter than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.
0.3% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. The share of commuters using walking is about the same as Maryland.
Cecil County, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Counties
Cecil County, MD is the 4th largest of the 6 counties compared here, 104,960 residents against a local median of 263,722. Cecil County, MD's work from home, at 12.4%, runs 18% below the 15.0% typical of the counties around it.
The counties themselves spread 12.4% on work from home, so Cecil County, MD sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Cecil County, MD has the 5th highest work from home of the 6 areas compared here.
Common questions about commuting in Cecil County, Maryland.
What is the financial impact of commuting in Cecil County, Maryland?
Commuters here spend an estimated 213 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,589 at a typical national wage. That's 10% less than the typical Maryland commuter spends.
What are the busiest morning travel hours in Cecil County, Maryland?
Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Cecil County, Maryland. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM also sees a secondary bump.
How common is public transit use in Cecil County, Maryland?
Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.3% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.
Which counties in Maryland have the fastest and slowest commutes?
Among counties in Maryland, the shortest average commutes are in Talbot County (17.8 min), Allegany County (17.8 min), Wicomico County (18.1 min). The longest are in Charles County (40.0 min), Calvert County (33.6 min), Prince George's County (32.5 min).