Crofton Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commute Time Burden in Crofton: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Crofton spend about 60 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 251 hours, about 10.5 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.

Crofton holds about 0.5% of Maryland's population and accounts for roughly 0.5% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Crofton would save about 100 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $3,110 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)
Crofton	30.1 min	60.2 min	251 hrs/yr	$7,775	4,133
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.

Crofton Commute Map

On average, it takes 30.1 minutes to get to work in Crofton. That's 34% longer than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 08:00 AM – 08:29 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 22.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Crofton

Riding a motorcycle is unusually common in Crofton: 6.0 times more than the Maryland average (0.4% vs 0.1%).

Walking is unusually rare in Crofton: 5.1 times less than the Maryland average (0.4% vs 2.0%).

Public transit is unusually rare in Crofton: 5.7 times less than the Maryland average (0.7% vs 4.2%).

Taking a taxi is unusually rare in Crofton: 9.1 times less than the Maryland average (0.1% vs 0.5%).

Biking is unusually rare in Crofton: 2059229015.1 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.3%).

Few people walk or bike to work in Crofton: just 0.4%, 5.8 times below the Maryland average of 2.3%.

Commute Mode Trends in Crofton, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Crofton 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	Other	Motorcycle	Walked	Taxi	Bicycle
2009	89.4%	3.8%	4.6%	0.2%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	1.1%
2010	88.8%	4.8%	4.7%	0.1%	0.2%	0.4%	0.0%	1.0%
2011	90.0%	3.9%	4.2%	0.0%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	1.3%
2012	89.6%	3.6%	4.8%	0.1%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	1.2%
2013	89.9%	4.0%	5.5%	0.1%	0.0%	0.5%	0.0%	0.0%
2014	90.7%	3.5%	4.8%	0.4%	0.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2015	90.4%	2.8%	5.5%	0.4%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2016	89.4%	3.5%	6.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.6%	0.0%	0.2%
2017	88.1%	3.7%	6.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.7%	0.0%	0.1%
2018	88.2%	4.3%	5.8%	0.6%	0.1%	0.8%	0.0%	0.1%
2019	88.3%	5.0%	5.3%	0.6%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2020	86.4%	7.7%	4.6%	0.7%	0.0%	0.6%	0.0%	0.0%
2021	83.4%	11.6%	3.4%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2022	80.4%	15.9%	2.0%	1.0%	0.0%	0.7%	0.0%	0.0%
2023	77.8%	19.5%	1.2%	1.1%	0.0%	0.3%	0.1%	0.0%
2024	75.0%	22.7%	0.7%	0.7%	0.4%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share peaked in 2014 at 90.7%. Overall it fell from 89.4% in 2009 to 75.0% in 2024, down 14.4 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 5 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Crofton: its share of workers rose from 3.8% in 2009 to 22.7% in 2024, up 18.9 percentage points. Most of that increase, 17.7 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 4.6% to 0.7% of workers (down 3.9 percentage points).

Working from home overtook public transit to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2020 release and has stayed ahead since.

Commute Start Times in Crofton

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Crofton?

The bars show when commuters in Crofton 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		4.0%
5:00-5:29 AM		3.1%
5:30-5:59 AM		6.1%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		6.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		14.8%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.6%
8:00-8:29 AM		16.5%
8:30-8:59 AM		6.3%
9:00-9:59 AM		8.7%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.9%
11:00-11:59 AM		2.9%
12:00-3:59 PM		4.9%
4:00-11:59 PM		3.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Crofton is 8:00-8:29 AM, when 16.5% of commuters leave home, compared with 11.9% across Maryland. Early starts are less common than in Maryland: 13.2% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush is more concentrated than in Maryland: 47.3% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (24.0%) 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 Crofton, 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 Crofton 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 Crofton 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	Crofton	Maryland	United States
2009	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:40 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:39 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:42 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:34 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:35 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:28 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:25 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:30 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:28 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:30 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:36 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:50 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Crofton were on the road by 7:50 AM, 8 minutes later than in 2009 (7:42 AM). The shift is sharper than across Maryland, where the typical start moved 4 minutes later. Commuters in Crofton now leave 12 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 Crofton has moved 25 minutes later. The 2024 release is the latest typical start for Crofton in the whole series.

How does Crofton's commute time compare?

Metric	Crofton	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	30.1 min	28.3 min	22.4 min
Departure Window	08:00 AM – 08:29 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	22.7%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	0.4%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	0.7%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Crofton is 30.1 minutes, longer than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

0.7% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 0.4% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Crofton, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

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

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Crofton, MD	29,546	30.1 min #2/3	22.7% #2/3	7:50 AM #3/3
Odenton, MD	41,509	27.4 min	18.9%	7:29 AM
Bowie, MD	47,332	32.4 min	25.9%	7:41 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Crofton, Maryland.

How much does the average commute cost workers in Crofton, Maryland?

Commuters here spend an estimated 251 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $7,775 at a typical national wage. That's 6% more than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Crofton, Maryland?

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

Do people use public transit in Crofton, Maryland?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.7% of commuters use it versus 4.2% in Maryland, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.