Glen Burnie Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Glen Burnie, 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 Glen Burnie: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Glen Burnie spend about 47 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 197 hours, about 8.2 full days, spent commuting. That is 16% less time on the road than the Maryland average of 28.3 minutes each way, a difference of 4.6 minutes.

Glen Burnie holds about 1.2% of Maryland's population but accounts for roughly 1.0% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Glen Burnie would save about 79 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $2,444 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)
Glen Burnie	23.7 min	47.3 min	197 hrs/yr	$6,111	3,705
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.

Glen Burnie Commute Map

On average, it takes 23.7 minutes to get to work in Glen Burnie. That's 6% 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 11.7% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Glen Burnie

Riding a motorcycle is unusually rare in Glen Burnie: 2573733.3 times less than the Maryland average (0.0% vs 0.1%).

Biking is unusually rare in Glen Burnie: 3.9 times less than the Maryland average (0.1% vs 0.3%).

Commute Mode Trends in Glen Burnie, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Glen Burnie 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	91.7%	1.9%	2.7%	1.1%	1.9%	0.4%	0.1%	0.2%
2010	93.0%	1.7%	2.5%	1.0%	1.3%	0.4%	0.1%	0.0%
2011	92.6%	1.5%	3.2%	1.2%	1.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.0%
2012	93.2%	1.4%	2.7%	1.2%	1.0%	0.5%	0.1%	0.0%
2013	93.2%	1.7%	2.5%	1.3%	0.9%	0.2%	0.2%	0.0%
2014	93.0%	1.6%	2.1%	1.6%	1.3%	0.3%	0.2%	0.1%
2015	91.9%	1.8%	2.8%	1.8%	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	0.0%
2016	91.4%	1.8%	3.2%	1.7%	1.4%	0.2%	0.3%	0.0%
2017	91.1%	1.6%	3.2%	1.6%	1.6%	0.2%	0.5%	0.3%
2018	91.0%	1.4%	3.2%	1.4%	2.0%	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%
2019	90.3%	1.7%	3.9%	1.5%	1.6%	0.3%	0.3%	0.3%
2020	89.6%	3.8%	3.4%	0.9%	1.6%	0.1%	0.3%	0.3%
2021	87.9%	6.0%	2.7%	1.1%	1.8%	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%
2022	86.9%	7.3%	2.9%	1.0%	1.5%	0.2%	0.0%	0.1%
2023	84.9%	10.1%	2.3%	1.1%	1.1%	0.5%	0.0%	0.1%
2024	83.4%	11.7%	2.2%	1.1%	0.8%	0.7%	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 2012 at 93.2%. Overall it fell from 91.7% in 2009 to 83.4% in 2024, down 8.3 percentage points. It has fallen in each of the last 11 releases.

Working from home gained the most ground in Glen Burnie: its share of workers rose from 1.9% in 2009 to 11.7% in 2024, up 9.8 percentage points. Most of that increase, 10.0 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Public transit lost the most ground, falling from 2.7% to 2.2% of workers (down 0.5 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 Glen Burnie

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Glen Burnie?

The bars show when commuters in Glen Burnie 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		6.7%
5:00-5:29 AM		4.2%
5:30-5:59 AM		7.5%
6:00-6:29 AM		9.2%
6:30-6:59 AM		8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM		16.0%
7:30-7:59 AM		9.3%
8:00-8:29 AM		11.1%
8:30-8:59 AM		5.2%
9:00-9:59 AM		5.8%
10:00-10:59 AM		3.3%
11:00-11:59 AM		1.4%
12:00-3:59 PM		5.3%
4:00-11:59 PM		6.6%

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

The busiest time to head out in Glen Burnie is 7:00-7:29 AM, when 16.0% of commuters leave home, compared with 14.0% across Maryland. Early starts are more common than in Maryland: 18.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.8% there. The morning rush looks much like Maryland's: 44.8% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 45.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (22.4%) 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 Glen Burnie, 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 Glen Burnie 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 Glen Burnie 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	Glen Burnie	Maryland	United States
2009	7:33 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2010	7:34 AM	7:36 AM	7:38 AM
2011	7:30 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2012	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2013	7:27 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2014	7:24 AM	7:35 AM	7:39 AM
2015	7:21 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2016	7:22 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2017	7:23 AM	7:35 AM	7:38 AM
2018	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2019	7:26 AM	7:35 AM	7:37 AM
2020	7:27 AM	7:36 AM	7:37 AM
2021	7:27 AM	7:37 AM	7:37 AM
2022	7:27 AM	7:38 AM	7:37 AM
2023	7:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM
2024	7:26 AM	7:39 AM	7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Glen Burnie were on the road by 7:26 AM, 7 minutes earlier than in 2009 (7:33 AM). That goes against the trend across Maryland, where the typical commuter now leaves 4 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Glen Burnie now leave 12 minutes earlier than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM).

How does Glen Burnie's commute time compare?

Metric	Glen Burnie	Maryland	US Average
Avg. Commute Time	23.7 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	11.7%	19.3%	15.0%
Walked	1.1%	2.0%	2.4%
Public Transit	2.2%	4.2%	3.2%

The average commute time in Glen Burnie is 23.7 minutes, shorter than the 28.3 minutes in Maryland.

2.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 4.2% in Maryland. 1.1% commute by walking, lower than the 2.0% in Maryland.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Glen Burnie, MD Commute Compared With Nearby Cities

How Glen Burnie, MD compares with the 1 cities closest to it.

Area	Population	One-way commute	Work from home	Typical departure
Glen Burnie, MD	72,802	23.7 min #1/2	11.7% #2/2	7:26 AM #2/2
Pasadena, MD	34,267	28.9 min	19.3%	7:25 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

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

Commuters here spend an estimated 197 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $6,111 at a typical national wage. That's 16% less than the typical Maryland commuter spends.

When is rush hour worst in Glen Burnie, Maryland?

Traffic peaks between 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM in Glen Burnie, 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.